Bridgeway Construction Company Merges With BELFOR USA
FT. WORTH, TX - The recent merger of Bridgeway Construction Company with BELFOR USA continues BELFOR International growth as the world leader in the insurance restoration industry. Since 1961, Seattle-based Bridgeway Construction Company has been owned and run by the Daviscourt family. Bridgeway is the premiere provider for insurance restoration and general contracting in the Pacific Northwest with clients in Washington, Oregon, Alaska, California, Idaho, Utah, Montana, and Colorado.
Over the past year, BELFOR USA has grown from eight U.S. offices to 16 offices, serving the entire North American continent. The parent company, BELFOR International, has been rapidly expanding to meet disaster recovery needs around the world and now maintains offices in 22 countries throughout Europe, Southeast Asia and North America.
BELFOR is known throughout the world for its expert management and highly experienced technicians, as well as for its advanced technology and rapid response time. BELFOR handles every aspect of property and content disaster recovery from emergency services, reconstruction, dehumidification, construction defects, restoration, structural cleaning, electronics/machinery refurbishment to contents restoration, book and document recovery, magnetic media recovery, and mold remediation.

Comdisco to Host Planning Application for Customers Adopts ASP Model for Web-based Revolution™ Application
ROSEMONT, IL - Comdisco has announced it will host and manage its continuity planning application Revolution™ for customers, giving companies of any size an easy way to develop continuity plans for their computer systems. By hosting the application, Comdisco frees customers from purchasing and maintaining the hardware, system software, and network required to support Revolution. A hosted solution fits the needs of companies trying to implement a solution quickly or that lack the internal resources to deploy and maintain the application themselves.
Comdisco will host and manage the application through its Web Services unit, which provides fully managed hosting, security services and a high availability infrastructure to ensure uptime for applications. Customers have the option of purchasing a license for the software and having Comdisco host the application or paying a monthly fee to access the application. Customers connect to the application via a secure connection to ensure information in customers’ continuity plans remains confidential.
Revolution, the industry’s first continuity-planning tool designed for the Web, allows continuity professionals in a company to build, update and collaborate on corporate-wide continuity plans. Users can write and maintain their plans using their desktop browser from anywhere in the world, and administrators can manage the information in a centralized database. Revolution is also the first continuity-planning tool to provide scenario-based planning, allowing companies to develop plans to respond to specific types of disruptions.

FedEx Custom Critical Opens ExpressCenter in Reno, Nevada
AKRON, Ohio - FedEx Custom Critical, North America’s largest time-specific, critical-shipment carrier, has opened an ExpressCenter in Reno, Nevada, to provide faster pickup service for customers in the western part of the state. The new ExpressCenter offers pickup in less than 90 minutes for customers located within a 25-mile radius of Reno and in less than two hours within a 26- to 50-mile radius. Five sizes of trucks are available to meet customers’ expedited shipping needs - minivans, cargo vans, 12-foot and 20-foot straight trucks and tractor-trailers. The ExpressCenter is a location where trucks are available for dispatch.
FedEx Custom Critical specializes in critical shipments of any weight that require same-day or early next-day delivery. To arrange a shipment, customers call (800) 762-3787. FedEx Custom Critical immediately dispatches an appropriate size truck to pick up the freight and transport it straight through to its destination.
FedEx’s Custom Critical provides exclusive-use, time-specific, non-stop, door-to-door shipping service throughout the U.S. and Canada and within Europe. Among its divisions are White Glove Services® for shipments that require special care in handling, and CharterAir®, which offers an array of expedited air solutions to meet customers’ critical delivery times. FedEx Custom Critical is an operating subsidiary of FedEx Corp.

FM Global Releases 2001 Property Loss Prevention Reference Library CD-ROM
FM Global has released its new computer network-compatible 2001 Resource Collection CD-ROM, an acclaimed technical reference library containing over 350 Property Loss Prevention data sheets, the three volumes of the 2001 Factory Mutual Research Approval Guide and the 2001 FM Global Property Loss Prevention Resource Catalog.
At the click of a mouse, consulting engineers, contractors, and architects overseeing construction, renovations and industrial applications can access property loss prevention information on hundreds of topics written by FM Global and Factory Mutual Research engineering experts and based on over 165 years of research, product testing and property loss analysis.
The CD-ROM is updated three times a year with new information as property loss prevention and control technology and techniques develop. The CD-ROM’s price is based on the number of regular users on a single network who have access. A single-user version is also available. For more information, call FM Global at (877) 364-6726 (toll free in the U.S. and Canada) or visit FM Global’s web site at www.fmglobal.com/store.

GE Capital IT Solutions Unveils Data Recovery Website
NEWPORT, KY - GE Capital IT Solutions, which designs, creates, and manages IT infrastructure for business, unveiled a new, interactive Web site dedicated to preventing, and recovering from, unforeseen events that could shut down critical business systems.
GE Capital IT Solutions’ Disaster Recovery Web site, http://gedisasterrecovery.com, offers customers valuable tools to assess their vulnerability to unexpected service catastrophes, as well as tools to recover from such disasters. GE Capital IT Solutions’ Disaster Recovery Web site also includes: immediate, on-line quotes for technology replacement; virtual tours of GE Capital IT Solutions’ mobile recovery facilities; an on-line subscription to the Disaster Recovery newsletter and CD-ROM; useful technical scripts; and references from customers.
GE Capital IT Solutions offers services and products that focus on the hot spots of today’s technology solutions. Services range from desktop support and network management, through remote monitoring and disaster recovery, to LAN analysis, storage, wireless, and security services. Products include an extensive array of offerings by the industry’s leading vendors to support requirements from desktops to midrange computing, internetworking, and servers. GE Capital IT Solutions also offers a wide range of technology training from some of the industry’s best and brightest. See all of GE Capital IT Solutions products and services at its GECITS Customer Web Center: http://www.gecitsolutions.com.

IBM Business Continuity and Recovery Services Expands its Capability
IBM Security Services Internet Emergency Response Service (IERS) has been renamed to IBM Business Continuity and Recovery Services managed security services.
Features of managed security services include:
ŸIntrusion Detection: Provides rapid detection of unauthorized access to your systems. Working closely with your security team, our trained professionals monitor, investigate, and alert our security professionals when suspicious activity occurs.
ŸVulnerability Scanning: Uses a variety of scanning techniques to enhance your existing security posture to help prevent unwanted intrusions on your network perimeter.
ŸIncident Management: Through our Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), we can respond quickly to intrusions and exposures across security-enhanced Internet connections or malicious code activities in your organization and place our experts at your disposal for technical and procedural assistance during and following the incident.
-Firewall Management: Remotely manages your firewall to shed the burdens of struggling with the pace of technology changes, new security threats, dynamic network structures, and rapid network deployment.
In today’s distributed, multivendor, information-centric world, disruptions to your business’ flow of information can be devastating. You can look to the people of IBM and its Business Continuity and Recovery Services offerings with confidence to help you sift through the layers of complexity in your IT infrastructure to provide a fail-safe continuity plan, and implementation in order to keep your business fueled with the information your people deem critical.

HP Solutions Honored With Crossroads 2001 A-List Awards
PALO ALTO, CA - Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HWP) has announced that industry watcher Open Systems Advisors has recognized HP’s storage and software solutions with its highest honor, the Crossroads 2001 A-List Awards. Winning in the “Business and Technology Infrastructure” category of the Crossroads A-List Awards are the HP Surestore Disk Array XP512 storage and HP Bluestone Total-e-Server middleware products.
The HP Surestore Disk Array XP512 is HP’s flagship product for true high-end storage solutions for the enterprise and service providers. HP’s heterogeneous XP platform offers high availability and innovative crossbar architecture for ultimate performance and scalability. With non-disruptive upgrades, no single point of failure and additional software and solutions to eliminate downtime, the storage system provides an always-on Internet infrastructure for enterprise and service providers. For more information, visit http://www.hp.com/go/storage.
The HP Bluestone Total-e-Server, the application server within HP’s family of middleware products, provides a flexible, secure, highly scalable and fault-tolerant J2EE compatible and XML-based infrastructure for developing, deploying, integrating and managing interactive Web applications. As part of HP’s overall enterprise software solution, the HP Bluestone Total-e-Server enables developers to integrate existing systems and incorporate data from business partners into new business applications. For more information, visit http://www.hp.com/go/software or http://www.bluestone.com.

NSI’s Double-Take Product to Receive IBM Validation
HOBOKEN, N.J. - NSI® Software has announced that its Double-Take® product has completed Microsoft® Datacenter certification testing on IBM® Netfinity® 8500R server platform for Microsoft Windows® Datacenter. Double-Take is NSI’s award-winning data replication, application failover and disaster recovery software.
Double-Take is the first application of its kind to complete Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter testing on the IBM Datacenter Solutions Platform. This testing closely follows IBM’s validation and registration of Double-Take as ServerProven® and ClusterProven® on the Netfinity server platform.
IBM has created an outstanding product and service set called the IBM Datacenter Solutions Program, a comprehensive set of product and service offerings designed to deliver true enterprise computing solutions based on the Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server operating system. Windows 2000 Datacenter Server is for those customers demanding greater processing requirements, greater scalability, and the highest levels of uptime for their mission-critical environments.
NSI Software’s Double-Take provides the protection of real-time data replication allowing complete redundancy of data, storage and servers without geographic limitations and against site-level failures. Data and applications are always protected and up-to-date copies available should a disaster occur.
IBM’s testing of Double-Take for Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter is the most recent development in an ongoing relationship between NSI and IBM.

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