Most organisations believe climate change will be a major threat to business in the next ten years, according to a survey by the organisers of Business Continuity Expo 2008.
End-users tend to focus too heavily on data protection and do not make provision for rapid recovery of business-critical systems and processes, says continuity services provider Neverfail.
Cafcass (Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service) has signed a £25m deal with Fujitsu to join the Flex transformational government framework jointly run with the Cabinet Office.
Avaya introduced four bundles of hardware and software at VoiceCon Orlando this week designed to address specific business groups: teleworkers, mobile workers, home call-centre agents and small businesses. The company is also offering a bundle for branch offices for chain stores and banks.
Recruitment firm Eden Brown has signed a contract with fibre network company Geo to supply a network to improve its communications and support business growth.
A national identity scheme is more likely to succeed if consumers can use it confidently and easily than if it is driven by governmental goals, said the government's independent reviewer of public and private identity assurance schemes, James Crosby.
Fletchers Bakeries has replaced a customised SAP system with off-the-shelf enterprise resource planning (ERP) software from Lawson Software developed for the food and beverage industry.
SAP and Intel will collaborate to offer "SAP Business All-in-One" software designed to combine database software and hardware into a server for mid-size companies.