Continuity Software to Join with Taneja Group to Discuss How to Ensure High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) in the Face of Everyday Configuration Drift

September 20th, 2009 LONDON - Simpson Spence and Young, the world's largest independent shipbroking group, is ready to face an increasingly turbulent marketplace having undertaken a complete technology refresh with their partner, BIS Ltd. SSY's infrastructure is now hosted across resilient data centres and utilises the latest in virtualisation technologies.

September 1st, 2009 ARMONK, New York and OMAHA, Nebraska - IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a collaboration with Metropolitan Community College (MCC) in Omaha, Nebraska, to develop a first-of-its-kind green data center management degree using IBM hardware, software and online skills training resources. The two-year associates degree includes courses to help students gain technical and business skills to prepare them for careers in the design and management of energy efficient data centers.

August 31st, 2009 NEW YORK and TEL AVIV, Israel - - Leading Value-Added Resellers and System Integrators in the U.S., Israel and Across Europe to Offer RecoverGuard, Disaster Recovery and High Availability Management Solutions to Customers Continuity Software(TM), the leading provider of disaster recovery (DR) and high availability (HA) management solutions, today announced the expansion of its Channel Partner Program into Europe. The newly expanded program, now offered in the U.S., Israel and Europe, is the only one of its kind intended to enable value-added resellers (VARs) and system integrators (SIs) to offer a comprehensive end-to-end solution for ensuring disaster recovery, high availability and business continuity.

August 12th, 2009 MUMBAI, India - The emerging storage technologies market in South Asia and the Middle East seems relatively insulated from the current economic slowdown, as a boom in data growth as well as enterprises' need for business continuity, disaster recovery solutions, and regulatory compliance have caused a spurt in the technology's adoption levels. Businesses are increasingly focusing on gaining an edge by reducing operational risks and there have been substantial advances in data storage to supply the demand for better data management and recovery.

July 26th, 2009 CAPE TOWN, South Africa - Although the Nigerian IT infrastructure market is in its infancy, key sectors such as the financial, telecommunications, and oil and gas industries have begun outsourcing elements of their IT functions to third parties. Technological developments, government promotion of ICT and Nigeria's exposure to the global stage have provided additional growth stimulus.

July 22nd, 2009 LONDON - In the current economic climate, every small to medium business (SMB) is looking for ways to reduce IT costs without compromising business security. Backing up business crucial data securely to an offsite location has become more of a mandatory compliance need rather than a nice-to-have feature.

July 21st, 2009 MOUNT ARLINGTON, New Jersey - - esXpress Enhances Virtual Applicance for Backup/Restores Benefiting VMware Users PHD Virtual Technologies (www.phdvirtual.com/), provider of the pioneering esXpress (www.phdvirtual.com/products/esxpress-virtual-backup) data protection and recovery solution for virtual machines, today announced that esXpress has been extended to support VMware vSphere 4. This new release of esXpress version 3.6 also includes significant enhancements for all versions of VMware's ESX platform version 3.0.2 and above.

July 7th, 2009 BRUSSELS - BlueBackUp announces the launch of its new Disaster Recovery service, which significantly reduces the level of risk for companies by enabling them to restore their business quickly after a major incident - at a cost that is considerably lower than a conventional DRP, while also providing a broader level of service than its competitors. Implementing a business recovery plan can be both complex and costly.

April 23rd, 2009 BRUSSELS - BlueBackUp is the first online backup service that caters for the needs of big businesses. By developing innovative data recovery functionalities and thanks to the drop of disk prices, the Oodrive subsidiary is able to help organisations that manage large volumes of data to deal with the new IT challenges thrown up by the economic crisis.

April 1st, 2009 GENEVA - SunGard announced today that it has strengthened its position in the Swiss private banking sector by acquiring Genix Systems AG, a Zurich-based provider of customer information systems to small and medium-sized private banks. Genix will be integrated into SunGard's banks business and its flagship solution, WinDekis, will become part of SunGard's Ambit Apsys private banking solution, with which it already shares a number of common customers.

March 23rd, 2009 MUMBAI - Bollywood actors here on Saturday felicitated the 'Acting Guru' Roshan Taneja on his completion of 45 years in the industry. Taneja is a famed tutor to many leading stars in Bollywood.

January 31st, 2009 WASHINGTON - An Indian-American mortgage broker and Bollywood film promoter has been sentenced to seven years in prison for defrauding banks of $33 million and cheating fellow Indian immigrants with phony home loans. 'I'm very sorry about my conduct and the embarrassment to my family,' Vijay K.

January 30th, 2009 WASHINGTON - An Indian-American mortgage broker and Bollywood film promoter has been sentenced to seven years in prison for defrauding banks of $33 million and cheating fellow immigrants from Indian community with phony home loans. 'I'm very sorry about my conduct and the embarrassment to my family,' Vijay K.

March 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - India's telecom watchdog Monday asked internet service providers (ISPs) and telecom operators to ensure availability of the minimum required bandwidth in their networks. 'Operators must ensure availability of the minimum required bandwidth in their network as per the maximum contention ratio suggested by the regulator for different services based on the number of customers,' the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) said in its guidelines issued for the service providers.

March 26th, 2009 AMRITSAR - The college-going daughter of a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader who has accused her father of raping her for the past eight years gathered the courage to approach the police after reading about a similar case in Mumbai last week. Ashok Taneja, the general secretary of the Ajnala unit of the BJP, was arrested Wednesday night after his 20-year-old daughter complained he had sexually exploited her for the last eight years, said police officials in the border town, 30 km from here.

April 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Eva Mendes loves to have Indian curry but after a bad experience she no longer digs on it in the bedroom. The 2 Fast 2 Furious star confessed she often eats in bed while tuning in to her favorite show but a previous curry disaster had taught her it may not be good idea to take Indian food under the covers, reports the China Daily.

March 25th, 2009 AMRITSAR - The Punjab Police Wednesday said a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader had been arrested after his 20-year-old daughter complained he had sexually exploited her for the last eight years. The BJP is a partner in Punjab's Akali Dal-led ruling alliance.

March 26th, 2009 AMRITSAR - 'My father should not be spared for his acts. He should be shot dead,' was the impassioned plea of the college-going daughter of a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader.

August 25th, 2009 LONDON - If reports are to be believed, the British Ministry of Defence (MoD) has made a 'disastrous' decision over tandem rotor helicopters Chinook Mk3's, which are meant for complex operations. In 1995, the ministry had agreed to buy eight Chinook Mk3s from Boeing for 259 million pounds, and wanted to fit its own software in place of the avionics software, which would have cost another 40 million pounds.

May 4th, 2009 TORONTO - As part of a trial that could soon become the modus operandi of university examinations in Norway, around 6,000 college students took exams on their laptops. Every 16-19 year-old in Nord-Trondelag county in Norway has been trying out the laptop-based system, the BBC reports.