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Business Continuity Awareness Week: Continuity in the
Limelight, March 7-13
While
business continuity has been practiced in Canada by
a few organizations since the late 1980s, it has taken
a number of recent events in North America and around
the world to make it a desirable practice for many.
The sudden interest can be seen in the large increase
in conferences and publications on the topic, and new
regulations that will make its practice mandatory in
the public and private sectors in years to come.
In
many ways business continuity is still a well-kept secret
and is not a part of most management-training curricula.
To help make it more visible, this year seven of Canada’s
business continuity support organizations have collaborated,
in an unprecedented move, to promote International Business
Continuity Awareness week (March 7-13). This comes in
the form of promoting the event by providing an electronic
toolkit that has two targets. One is the organization
already practicing business continuity where the toolkit
can be used to promote the practice internally. The
other is to businesses that may be considering business
continuity for the first time. The toolkit makes suggestions
on the type of questions they should be asking, and
where to go to find out more.
For more information visit http://www.drie.org.
MIR3’s INlogicPRO™
v2.1 Delivers Intelligent Notification to the Enterprise
INlogicPRO
Selected by Los Angeles County Department of Health
Services to Power Health Alert Network.
San
Diego, CA – March 2, 2004 – MIR3, a technology
leader in Intelligent Notification solutions, today
announced the general availability of INlogicPRO v2.1,
a significantly enhanced version of the Company’s
enterprise notification and communications platform.
A customizable software-based notification solution,
INlogicPRO v2.1 features the new INlogicAdaptor™,
a Remote Intelligent Adaptor for seamless application
connectivity and real-time synchronization with proprietary
systems and databases. The INlogicAdaptor enables customers
to leverage existing technology and data investments
while accelerating the deployment of emergency notification
capabilities across the enterprise. Businesses, academic
and government agencies utilize MIR3’s INlogicPRO
for a variety of applications supporting business continuity,
disaster recovery and emergency preparedness initiatives.
For more information, go to http://www.mir3.com
or contact Karina Lion, MIR3 public relations at (858)
724-1248 or karina.lion@mir3.com.
IAEM
and NEMA Applaud “One mission, one team, one fight”
Homeland Security Secretary Ridge Approves National
Incident Management System (NIMS)
The International Association
of Emergency Managers and the National Emergency Management
Association today jointly announce their support for
U. S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tom
Ridge as he unveils the National Incident Management
System (NIMS), the Nation’s first standardized
management plan that creates a unified chain of command
for Federal, state, and local lines of government for
incident response. “NIMS gives our Nation’s
responders the same framework for incident management
and fully puts into practice the concept of, ‘One
mission, one team, one fight,’” Ridge said.
IAEM and NEMA are the two
organizations, which represent local and state emergency
managers and homeland security officials. Both groups
actively participated with DHS to produce NIMS.
NIMS identifies core elements
for all responders and incident managers; three that
have been particularly promoted over the years by IAEM
and NEMA are: Incident command system, interoperable
communications and information, and preparedness. IAEM
and NEMA are working together to support local and state
emergency management and homeland security officials’
efforts to coordinate an understanding of NIMS among
all first responder constituencies.
For a copy of NIMS and more
details on key core elements, see http://www.dhs.gov
or contact 202-282-8010. See http://www.iaem.com
and http://www.nemaweb.org
for more information about the International Association
of Emergency Managers and the National Emergency Management
Association, respectively.
a Weekly Publication
of Disaster Resource GUIDE.
The weekly Continuity e-GUIDE will provide a
concise seven-day snapshot of the business continuity
and emergency management industry from around the world
right down to the local level.
Based on the philosophy of “working together”,
the e-GUIDE will integrate, consolidate, and communicate
resources from organizations that are leaders in business
continuity, risk management, crisis management, emergency
response, and disaster recovery.
Watch your Inbox each Wednesday for the latest edition
of the Continuity e-GUIDE. Do you have an interesting
story, case study or some breaking news? Contact the
Editor, Nathan Mallett at nathan.mallett@disaster-resource.com
Interested in sponsoring a weekly update or spotlighting
your product or service? Contact Tommy Rainey at tommyr@disaster-resource.com
The 2004 DISASTER RESOURCE GUIDE (9th annual Edition)
will be published during the 1st quarter of 2004. Visit
the online GUIDE to sign up for a free copy. You can
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