Value of ERM not understood

American executives may not fully grasp the scope of their companies' enterprise risk management (ERM) needs, according to the results of a survey conducted by Accretive Solutions, the national business consulting and executive search firm, in conjunction with Harris Interactive, states Fox Business.

Thirty-nine percent of respondents to this survey of executive-level decision-makers at Fortune 1000 companies labelled IT Security, a significant concern of any effective ERM strategy, as their number one worry over the coming twelve months while at the same time just 6% of respondents expressed any discomfort with their existing ERM efforts.

"Since ERM is still such a new, unfamiliar concept for many executives, these results highlight two key points," said Dirk Hobgood, executive VP and CFO for Accretive Solutions.

EMC, a provider of information infrastructure solutions, has expanded its solution portfolio for mission critical applications with new proven solutions that simplify the implementation of business continuity, backup, recovery and information protection of Exchange Server and SQL Server running on the VMware platform, according to PR News Wire.

Customers have access to fully tested and validated reference architectures and best practices to accelerate time to deployment, deliver predictable results, and achieve improved application-level performance, backup and recovery, remote replication, high availability and manageability.

EMC's expanded solution capabilities address customer requirements for improved business continuity of mission critical applications deployed on VMware infrastructure.

Acronis has made available an e-book entitled Business Continuity with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 which can be downloaded for free as a PDF file from http://www.acronis.com.au/promo/bcmebook/, says LinuxWorld.

Authored by Danielle and Nelson Ruest, the e-book is excerpted from Microsoft Windows Server 2008: The Complete Reference, published by McGraw-Hill.

It provides business owners with a comprehensive overview of backup, recovery and business continuity best practices on the new version of Microsoft Server, helps IT administrators work with Windows Server 2008 design and deploys practical disaster recovery and business continuity strategies.