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Symantec Survey Reveals Digital Information Costs Businesses $1.1Trillion
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced that information costs businesses worldwide $1.1 trillion annually, according to its first ever State of Information Survey. From confidential customer information, to intellectual property, to financial transactions, organizations possess massive amounts of information that not only enable them to be competitive and efficient – but also stay in business. In fact, the survey revealed that digital information makes up 49 percent of an organization’s total value.
Read more detailed blog post: State of Information
“The vast amount of information that organizations produce today can help them better serve their customers and increase productivity. However, the same information can also become a major liability if it is not properly protected. Companies that effectively use their information will have a major competitive advantage over those who cannot, and in some cases it can be the difference between success and failure,” said Francis deSouza, group president, Enterprise Products and Services, Symantec Corp. “With its increasing value and rising cost, successful companies will find ways to more effectively protect their information and unleash the productivity it can bring.”
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Information is Skyrocketing and It’s Expensive
Businesses of all sizes are dealing with enormous amounts of data. The total size of information stored today by all businesses is 2.2 zettabytes. Small to medium sized businesses (SMBs) on average have 563 terabytes of data, compared with the average enterprise that has 100,000 terabytes. The survey also reveals that information is expected to grow 67 percent over the next year for enterprises and 178 percent for SMBs.
On average, enterprises spend $38 million annually on information, while SMBs spend $332,000. However, the yearly cost per employee for SMBs is a lot higher at $3,670, versus $3,297 for enterprise. For example, a typical 50-employee small business spends $183,500 on information management, whereas a typical large enterprise with 2,500 employees would spend $8.2 million.
The Business Impact of Lost Information
The consequences of losing business information would be disastrous. “We would have to fold our operations for at least a couple of years before we’d come back again,” noted an IT manager at a large engineering firm when asked about the consequences of losing the enterprise’s information. Respondents highlighted the impact of data loss to their business, including lost customers (49 percent), damage to reputation and brand (47 percent), decreased revenue (41 percent), increased expenses (39 percent) and a tumbling stock price (20 percent).
Protection Measures are Falling Short
With so much at stake, protecting information should be a top priority, yet businesses are still struggling. In the last year, 69 percent of businesses experienced some form of information loss for a variety of reasons, such as human error, hardware failure, security breach, or lost and stolen devices. In addition, 69 percent have had confidential information exposed outside of the company, and 31 percent have experienced compliance failures related to information. Another challenge is the amount of duplicate information businesses are storing – an average of 42 percent of data is duplicated. Storage utilization is also low, at only 31 percent within the firewall and 18 percent outside.
All these risks and inefficiencies result in businesses spending more than necessary on storing and protecting their information. A key issue identified by 30 percent of businesses is information sprawl – the overwhelming growth of information that is unorganized, difficult to access and often duplicated elsewhere.
Businesses Need to Put the “I” Back in “IT”
To help businesses more effectively protect their information, Symantec has the following recommendations:
· Focus on the information, not the device or data center: With BYOD and cloud, information is no longer within the four walls of a company. Protection must focus on the information, not the device or data center.
· Not all information is equal: Business must be able to separate useless data from valuable business information and protect it accordingly.
· Be efficient: Deduplication and archiving help companies protect more, but store less to keep pace with exponential data growth.
· Consistency is key: It is important to set consistent policies for information that can be enforced wherever it’s located… physical, virtual and cloud environments.
· Stay agile: Plan for your future information needs by implementing a flexible infrastructure to support continued growth.
Resources
· Report: State of Information Survey Results 2012
· SlideShare: State of Information Survey Results 2012
· Infographic: State of Information
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Symantec protects the world’s information, and is the global leader in security, backup and availability solutions. Our innovative products and services protect people and information in any environment – from the smallest mobile device, to the enterprise data center, to cloud-based systems. Our industry-leading expertise in protecting data, identities and interactions gives our customers confidence in a connected world. More information is available at www.symantec.com or by connecting with Symantec at: go.symantec.com/socialmedia
RiskMeter Announces Initiative to Provide Insurers with Map & Data on Colorado’s High Park Wildfire
Boston, MA, June 25, 2012 – RiskMeter Online, a leading provider of real-time natural hazard risk reports, today announced it has applied its wildfire model to provide analysis on the High Park wildfire in Colorado. This initiative will provide a list of zip codes, which have been burning or that RiskMeter anticipates may burn based upon its model, and a map to concerned Property & Casualty insurance industry professionals free of charge.
Colorado’s High Park wildfire so far has consumed approximately 80,000 acres and over 200 homes. Most of these areas were labeled medium and high by RiskMeter’s wildfire model, which is based on detailed vegetation and topographical data.
Last year’s wildfire season was extremely active and many experts are predicting more of the same for this year, due to a combination of drought, higher temperatures and below normal snowpack in western states. Each year catastrophic wildfires cause hundreds of millions of dollars in insured damage, and it has the potential to get worse if temperatures continue to rise and more homes are built within close proximity to wildland areas.
“Wildfire risk has always been a cause of concern to insurers, but now more than ever,” explains Daniel Munson, Founder, RiskMeter Online. “That’s why we released our wildfire data before the start of the 2012 wildfire season and provide various features such as, aerial photos overlaid on wildfire maps, distance to brush measuring tool and the ability to check multiple buildings on a property. This combination of data and tools allows our customers to dig deeper when it comes to assessing their wildfire exposure.”
For more information, please contact Daniel Munson, Founder, RiskMeter Online at 617.737.4444 or dmunson@cdsys.com
About RiskMeter Online
RiskMeter Online is used by underwriters and agents to automate property lookups. This Web-based solution utilizes Internet mapping technology to enable underwriters to determine the proximity to natural hazards for any property in the Unites States. It’s far more accurate and faster than any other method for determining property risk, and can save underwriters considerable time and money. The RiskMeter Online provides over 30 real-time reports, including Distance to Coast, FEMA Flood Zones, Rating Territories, Windpool Eligibility, RMS Data & Analytics, Individual AAL & PML Reports, Earthquake information and much more.
Oversight Systems Launches No-Risk, Pay-As-You-GoContinuous Analysis Solution
ATLANTA – Oversight Systems, the leader in Continuous Analysis (CA) software, today announced rapid deployment Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings. These new solutions are free from implementation fees or long-term commitments. As a result, they represent an exceptional value for organizations seeking to benefit from the company’s proven experience delivering packaged business analytics for some of world’s largest organizations.
“We do more continuous analysis than anyone,” says Patrick Taylor, CEO of Oversight Systems. “Trillions of transactions per year. These new offerings give our customers all of our best-practices expertise and plain-language insights with no up-front costs.”
By applying real-time business analytics to financial transactions and Big Data sources, Oversight’s Continuous Analysis applications drive better decisions by delivering the right information to the right people, at exactly the time it’s needed most. The company’s deep experience in both industry and financial management analysis provides a crucial advantage for organizations seeking to:
· Make all purchases at the best price across global operations
· Increase control over purchase cards, even as usage expands
· Enforce Travel & Entertainment (T&E) card usage policy
· Stop duplicate or improper payments before cash is disbursed
· Stop fraud and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violations
“Think about what it means to the bottom line if every employee received the right analysis to make just one better business decision a day,” continues Taylor. “We know what analytics you need to solve daily business challenges. We find those hidden opportunities and deliver insights in ordinary language so you can act.”
Oversight’s new delivery options make it easier than ever for organizations to benefit from the company’s advanced predictive analytics. These proven solutions are now available via month-to-month plans, without installation fees and with satisfaction guarantees.
“We realize that Oversight represents a powerful new way of looking at financial transactions,” continues Taylor. “Month-to-month offerings and rapid deployment options are a great way for anyone, even smaller organizations, to generate hard cash savings, stop fraud and generate competitive advantage.”
All Oversight solutions and delivery options are available immediately. For more information, email sales@oversightsystems.com, or call the company at 770-984-4650.
Partnering with BitDefender, IObit fires big by releasing Advanced SystemCare with Antivirus 2013
SAN FRANCISCO – IObit, the world's leading system utility software provider, today announces the official release of Advanced SystemCare with Antivirus 2013. Powered by the #1 rated BitDefender™ antivirus engine, Advanced SystemCare with Antivirus 2013 is a game changing product that combines the most popular PC optimization software with the highest rated security suite.
Compared with Advanced SystemCare, PC optimization software enjoyed by millions of users, Advanced SystemCare with Antivirus 2013 is a new category of PC utility software that combines system optimization and security capabilities. While most antivirus software often slows down system performance, Advanced SystemCare with Antivirus 2013 is the only suite to both protect and increase system performance. Through years of customer feedback, IObit has learned that consumers seek better system protection with no performance lag, stable compatibility and high detection rate all in one product. According to a recent report by Intel, 17% of PCs have no security implemented. Powered by BitDefender's powerful virus engine, IObit claims Advanced SystemCare with Antivirus 2013 as superior to Kaspersky, McAfee, AVG or other security-only solutions.
"Based on long-term experience in developing system utilities and tracing the market dynamics, we've discovered from users that there is great demand for the integration of security and performance features into one ultimate solution," says Kevin Zhou the marketing director of IObit, "Advanced SystemCare with Antivirus 2013 is a new product which can protect your computer without slowing down the system. As far as we know, Advanced SystemCare with Antivirus 2013 is the world's first combined optimization-security software."
Designed for Windows 8, Windows 7, Vista and XP, Advanced SystemCare with Antivirus 2013 is compatible with other security software such as anti-virus, anti-malware, firewall, etc. At an introductory price of $29.95, ASC with Antivirus 2013 is priced to be highly competitive with alternative solutions. For more information and to download a free trial, visit http://www.iobit.com/advanced-systemcare-antivirus.html
As Wildfire Season Warms Up, MIR3 Urges Businesses to Evaluate Disaster Preparedness and Consider Business Continuity
SAN DIEGO, June 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- With wildfire season already off to a dramatic start, MIR3, Inc., the innovator of real-time Intelligent Notification and response technology, is urging employers and municipalities to review their current business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) plans to keep people safe and operations running if a wildfire threatens.
According to the Denver Post, as of last week the High Park fire had already burned through 50,000 acres of Larimer County, Colorado. That's roughly 65 square miles, of which 70 percent is federal lands. The National Guard has joined firefighters on the fire lines and The Department of Defense has had a team on standby. As of today, the fire is 50% contained and other fires are being fought in California, Colorado, Utah, Nevada and New Mexico.
In the month of May conditions in the contiguous United States were the second warmest ever recorded, with lighter than average rainfall recorded in the Southwest, Central Plains and Mid-South regions. So far this year, according to NOAA Satellite and Information Service, 4,435 fires have burned 337,182 acres. The National Interagency Fire Center Predictive Services anticipates above normal temperatures from July to September across most of the southern two-thirds of the country, with below-average rainfall in the Northwest and northern Rockies. The upcoming wildfire season is likely to be a challenging one.
Looking back to 2011, the nationwide number of fires for the year was 73,484, scorching 8.7 million acres. The spring and summer were particularly active wildfire periods; the fall season was quieter than average. While it's too early to predict 2012 numbers, wildfires can be expected to affect the operations of numerous businesses, compromising employee safety and business productivity. We can't stop the fires from starting, but advancements, like automated emergency notification, can provide organizations a way to communicate with employees, partners, and customers during the inevitable interruptions caused by wildfires.
In an effort to reduce the impact of natural disasters in the workplace, MIR3 executives are offering businesses the following tips on examining BC/DR plans:
- Evaluate BC/DR needs - When threatened by the encroachment of a wildfire, it's critical for companies to maintain clear and effective channels of communication to quickly assess damages and coordinate recovery. Because essential business operations can be affected by any level of interruption, companies must realize the importance of investing in important message delivery systems to deliver essential communication to employees and first responders.
- Choose a feature-rich notification system - When selecting a notification system, be certain your system offers two-way communication over a variety of channels, including landline, mobile phones, fax, SMS, Blackberry PIN-to-PIN, email, and more. These advanced features are essential in the delivery of important and urgent information when the usual communication infrastructure is compromised.
- Update all contact data - Regularly check your potential recipient lists to ensure that all contact information is up-to-date so when fire occurs you can be confident that notifications are being delivered to the right person on the right device.
- Create escalation plans - Crisis events like wildfires demand that specific people are contacted immediately. Intelligent Notification systems include integrated mechanisms that support a call escalation process. If the first person contacted is not the correct individual for the situation, the notification system will automatically contact the next appropriate person according to pre-determined processes.
- Train your personnel - When creating BC/DR plans, it is essential to properly train personnel on how to use notification software so they can monitor the entire alert process. Studies show that companies who educate their employees correctly achieve significantly greater response rates.
- Test your system - Test alert systems during normal business hours and well before fire season to address any glitches to be certain that notification will be delivered successfully when needed. At least two system tests per year are recommended.
- Encourage all employees to sign-up for notifications - Automated notification works best when all user contact information is saved within the system's database so that staff can be alerted immediately during an urgent situation. This ensures the reliable and speedy delivery of important messages at the right time, to the right person, on the right device.
- Establish steps to follow after the disaster - Once the threat of a fire has passed, your business continuity program should specify procedures to help bring business operations back to normal as soon as possible. These measures will enable organizations to return to productivity as quickly as possible and will help better prepare for future crises.
MIR3 has notification and business continuity experts available to speak and expand on the importance of implementing such steps as fire season develops. Please contact Carol Tiernan at (858) 724-1280 or carol.tiernan@mir3.com to speak with any of these executives.
ABOUT MIR3
MIR3, Inc. is the leading developer of Intelligent Notification and response software, which helps organizations enhance communication abilities, protect assets, and increase operational efficiency. MIR3 technology enables advanced rapid, two-way communication for IT, business continuity, and enterprise operations for many of the Global Fortune 100 companies, as well as government entities, universities, and companies of all sizes in more than 130 countries. For more information, visit http://www.mir3.com. Follow MIR3 on Twitter: @MIR3. Visit the MIR3 blog: http://www.mir3.com/blog.
CONTACT:
Carol Tiernan
MIR3, Inc.
858-724-1280
carol.tiernan@mir3.com
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Imaging Solutions adds MaxxVault to their Portfolio of Solutions
"It is important to design a document management solution to the requirements of the organization," said Garrett Williams, President of Imaging Solutions. "While the problem of managing paper and electronic documents is shared by every organization, the business processes, documents, workflows and compliance rules are different. We chose MaxxVault because it can be easily configured to meet our client's needs, both large and small. With power tools for document capture, indexing and workflow, MaxxVault delivers on the promise of greater efficiency and cost savings. The key benefit, though, is the ease of use. With the familiar and customizable interface, access directly from the desktop and direct integration with other applications, MaxxVault puts any needed document just a click or two away."
"One of the keys to Image Solutions' success with document management can be attributed to the full line of services they offer," said Sharron Miller, MaxxDocs National Channel Manager. "Because they have the means and knowledge to implement and maintain hardware, scanning and software, they can see all the factors that come into play when designing a solution. Image Solutions help solve the business problem and then build the I.T. infrastructure to fit the needs and budget. MaxxVault anticipates this will be a very positive partnership for us, but also for Image Solutions' clients."
About MaxxVault
MaxxVault LLC provides software solutions for the management, distribution and control of corporate documents. Benefits of MaxxVault Enterprise include: reduced costs, improve efficiency, increase customer satisfaction and regulatory compliance. MaxxVault is an open system; it is built using the latest technology which provides enhanced security, dependability and interoperability with existing systems. MaxxVault is quickly adopted by users and administrators. MaxxVault is a Red Herring 2011 Top 100 North America Award winner, a CRN 2011 Top 20 Cloud vendor and a BLI Five Star solution. Simple just got easier.
For more information about MaxxVault LLC, visit: www.MaxxVault.com
About Imaging Solutions
Image Solutions is the leading document solutions provider in Asheville, NC, for multifunctional printers and copiers, electronic document management, managed print services, wide format plotters, and fax solutions. Image Solutions helps customers develop and implement unique document strategies that improve workflow, optimize assets and reduce costs. We provide the latest technology in copying, scanning, and faxing. We carefully study and monitor emerging and advancing technologies with our clients in mind. Imaging Solutions does the research so that we can easily fit the best solution for your company.
For more information about Imaging Solutions, visit: http://imagesolutions-online.com
Beyond Virtual™: Enterprise-Class Data Protection for Every Business
COLUMBIA, S.C. – Unitrends, the #1 all-in-one backup, archiving, instant recovery, and disaster recovery physical appliances, today announced a new software-only product, Unitrends Enterprise Backup™, that protects virtual and physical environments both locally and in the cloud. Unitrends Enterprise Backup™ is available as a virtual appliance deeply integrated with Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware vSphere to offer the advantages of an all-in-one solution with the flexibility of software-only deployment.
Unitrends also announced aggressive go-to-market pricing that will make protecting up to four Hyper-V or vSphere virtual machines free, with licensing on a per-physical server and a per-socket for virtual hosts priced at less than $1000. The production-ready software will be made generally available June 29. For channel partners for a limited time, Unitrends is offering a 100% discount of up to $10,000 through the company’s First Deal On Us promotion.
“We’re excited about its new capabilities, and how simple it is to implement even in the most complex environments,” said Rob Head, IT Director at Weikel, Johnson, Parris and Rouse, who has been using the software. “As with every new Unitrends release, we’re seeing even greater functionality while the web-based interface continues to get even more elegant and intuitive. It is everything I need in a backup and recovery product, with first class support if I ever need it.”
Steve Duplessie, CEO at Enterprise Strategy Group, sees the new Unitrends offering neatly fitting into industry trends. “The data is clear - users don't want specialized software that has different and unique management for their virtual and physical worlds - they want one thing, ideally a simple thing. Unitrends solution sits directly in the path of where the market is heading,” he said.
“We’ve had enormous success with our physical backup data protection appliances with revenue growth exceeding 100 percent,” said Mike Coney, CEO, Unitrends. “At the same time, there are many companies that have created a virtualized IT infrastructure who want the flexibility of a virtual appliance offering. Unitrends Enterprise Backup™ and our new release 6.3 support both.”
According to Mark Campbell, Chief Strategy Officer, Unitrends, “The engineering challenge was accommodating not just multiple deployment environments but multiple buyer personas with differing levels of expertise. We created our Simply Scalable™ architecture that allows us to not only scale-up and scale-out but scale-down to deliver an incredible customer experience across a wide variety of business types – from novices to power users.”
Unitrends Enterprise Backup™ has the enterprise-class features the company is known for; features such as:
- Virtual support at the HOS (Host Operating System) level and virtual and physical support at both the GOS (Guest Operating System and physical server level).
- Integrated D2D2x (Disk-to-Disk-to-Any) data protection including archival support for disk, tape, SAN, NAS and archival and replication support for private and public single- and multi-tenant clouds.
- Optimization of precious business WAN bandwidth via not just deduplication to the cloud but cloud/archive concurrent disaster recovery strategies as well.
- Support for over 100 versions of computers, storage, operating systems, hypervisors, and applications.
- Flexible backup strategies including incremental forever with dynamic synthetics, full/differential, full/incremental, full/full, selective, and customizable strategies supported.
- Near-continuous data protection performance with recovery point objectives of as little as one minute.
- Instant recovery using failover virtualization.
- Content-aware byte-level global deduplication.
- Storage virtualization and thin provisioning.
- Dissimilar bare metal of both physical and virtual environments.
New features associated with release 6.3 (for both Unitrends Enterprise Backup™ and the Recovery-series of physical data protection appliances) include:
- Simpler deployment and setup via our scale-down technology.
- Single server backup combined with multiple servers backup via our scale-down technology.
- Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware vSphere incremental forever with on-demand synthetics.
- Microsoft Hyper-V FLR (File Level Restore).
- Storage virtualization, thin provisioning, and global deduplication on Unitrends Enterprise Backup™.
- Advanced archive file-level search.
- Protection of SQL Server 2012, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.2, IBM AIX 7.1, Oracle Solaris 11, and Novell OES 11.
As well as many more features. For more information on the new features of Release 6.3, please see http://tinyurl.com/Unitrends-6-3.
Learn more about Unitrends Enterprise Backup™ Free Edition: http://tinyurl.com/UEB-Datasheet.
Get Unitrends Enterprise Backup™ Free Edition: http://www.unitrends.com/free-backup/.
Connect with Unitrends on Spiceworks: http://community.spiceworks.com/pages/unitrends.
About Unitrends
The trusted provider of all-in-one backup solutions, Unitrends enables its small- and mid-sized and enterprise customers to focus on their business instead of backup. The company's family of scalable, all-in-one appliances and software solutions for backup, archiving, instant recovery and disaster recovery protects corporate data, over 100 different versions of servers, operating systems (including Windows, Hyper-V, VMware, Mac OS, Linux, AIX, Solaris, and many others), SAN, NAS, hypervisors (including VMware, Hyper-V, Xen) and applications (including Exchange, SQL, Oracle, and many others.) Unitrends is the preferred choice of IT professionals because the company sets the standard in virtual, physical and cloud server data protection with instant recovery that enables the complete system recovery in less than 5 minutes while Unitrends' pricing offers the lowest TCO and ROI in the industry. Unitrends' U.S.-based support team boasts a 99% customer satisfaction rate.
Visit www.unitrends.com.
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As Wildfire Season Warms Up, MIR3 Urges Businesses to Evaluate Disaster Preparedness and Consider Business Continuity
According to the Denver Post, as of last week the High Park fire had already burned through 50,000 acres of Larimer County, Colorado. That's roughly 65 square miles, of which 70 percent is federal lands. The National Guard has joined firefighters on the fire lines and The Department of Defense has had a team on standby. As of today, the fire is 50% contained and other fires are being fought in California, Colorado, Utah, Nevada and New Mexico.
In the month of May conditions in the contiguous United States were the second warmest ever recorded, with lighter than average rainfall recorded in the Southwest, Central Plains and Mid-South regions. So far this year, according to NOAA Satellite and Information Service, 4,435 fires have burned 337,182 acres. The National Interagency Fire Center Predictive Services anticipates above normal temperatures from July to September across most of the southern two-thirds of the country, with below-average rainfall in the Northwest and northern Rockies. The upcoming wildfire season is likely to be a challenging one.
Looking back to 2011, the nationwide number of fires for the year was 73,484, scorching 8.7 million acres. The spring and summer were particularly active wildfire periods; the fall season was quieter than average. While it's too early to predict 2012 numbers, wildfires can be expected to affect the operations of numerous businesses, compromising employee safety and business productivity. We can't stop the fires from starting, but advancements, like automated emergency notification, can provide organizations a way to communicate with employees, partners, and customers during the inevitable interruptions caused by wildfires.
In an effort to reduce the impact of natural disasters in the workplace, MIR3 executives are offering businesses the following tips on examining BC/DR plans:
Evaluate BC/DR needs - When threatened by the encroachment of a wildfire, it's critical for companies to maintain clear and effective channels of communication to quickly assess damages and coordinate recovery. Because essential business operations can be affected by any level of interruption, companies must realize the importance of investing in important message delivery systems to deliver essential communication to employees and first responders.
Choose a feature-rich notification system - When selecting a notification system, be certain your system offers two-way communication over a variety of channels, including landline, mobile phones, fax, SMS, Blackberry PIN-to-PIN, email, and more. These advanced features are essential in the delivery of important and urgent information when the usual communication infrastructure is compromised.
Update all contact data - Regularly check your potential recipient lists to ensure that all contact information is up-to-date so when fire occurs you can be confident that notifications are being delivered to the right person on the right device.
Create escalation plans - Crisis events like wildfires demand that specific people are contacted immediately. Intelligent Notification systems include integrated mechanisms that support a call escalation process. If the first person contacted is not the correct individual for the situation, the notification system will automatically contact the next appropriate person according to pre-determined processes.
Train your personnel - When creating BC/DR plans, it is essential to properly train personnel on how to use notification software so they can monitor the entire alert process. Studies show that companies who educate their employees correctly achieve significantly greater response rates.
Test your system - Test alert systems during normal business hours and well before fire season to address any glitches to be certain that notification will be delivered successfully when needed. At least two system tests per year are recommended.
Encourage all employees to sign-up for notifications - Automated notification works best when all user contact information is saved within the system's database so that staff can be alerted immediately during an urgent situation. This ensures the reliable and speedy delivery of important messages at the right time, to the right person, on the right device.
Establish steps to follow after the disaster - Once the threat of a fire has passed, your business continuity program should specify procedures to help bring business operations back to normal as soon as possible. These measures will enable organizations to return to productivity as quickly as possible and will help better prepare for future crises.
MIR3 has notification and business continuity experts available to speak and expand on the importance of implementing such steps as fire season develops. Please contact Carol Tiernan at (858) 724-1280 or carol.tiernan@mir3.com to speak with any of these executives.
ABOUT MIR3
MIR3, Inc. is the leading developer of Intelligent Notification and response software, which helps organizations enhance communication abilities, protect assets, and increase operational efficiency. MIR3 technology enables advanced rapid, two-way communication for IT, business continuity, and enterprise operations for many of the Global Fortune 100 companies, as well as government entities, universities, and companies of all sizes in more than 130 countries. For more information, visit http://www.mir3.com. Follow MIR3 on Twitter: @MIR3. Visit the MIR3 blog: http://www.mir3.com/blog.
Lightower Fortifying Existing Ultra Low Latency Network with Route into Major Financial Facility in Mahwah, New Jersey
BOXBOROUGH, MA — Lightower Fiber Networks, the premier metro fiber and bandwidth provider in the Northeast, announced it will be building into the primary financial exchange data center located in Mahwah,New Jersey. With dense network already in place near the Mahwah facility, Lightower will be ready to build to the facility as soon as access is available to service providers. Lightower will also be offering points-of-entry,geographically diverse laterals, and geographically diverse routes to thefacility.
Once the Mahwah financial hub opens to service providers later this year, Lightower will quickly integrate the site into its network of ultra low latency routes and solutions. Lightower has the most fiber routes and access into more service locations of any metro fiber provider in the New York City and northern New Jersey area. Solutions for the financial services industryare a major focus for Lightower, as demonstrated by their highly successful Ultra Low Latency Network. This financial services network includes hubs at 15 strategic data centers and liquidity centers in the region including locations in New York City, Clifton,Newark, Piscataway, Carteret, Jersey City and Weehawken.
“Lightower will offer customers the most networking options at this critical financial services destination. With the dense network that Lightower already has in place near the facility, we will be able to offer multiple geographically diverse routing options to customers in order to connect them to other major data centers in the area,” explained Rob Shanahan, CEO of Lightower. “Customers can also connect from Mahwah to any of the hundreds of commercial buildings Lightower is built into in New York City, or any of our thousands of service locations throughout the entire Northeast.”
Lightower has invested heavily in the New Jersey and New York City region in recent years. Earlier this year, Lightower announced a major network expansion in central and northern New Jersey. In February of 2012, Lightower opened a new office in Roseland, New Jersey, less than a year after opening a new office in the heart of Manhattan In addition, Lightower announced the completion of a new network route across the Hudson River that bypasses the now under-construction Tappan Zee Bridge.
For more information on Lightower or its Ultra Low Latency Network, visit www.lightower.com, email info@lightower.com, or call888-LT-FIBER.
