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As a business membership organisation, London First's mission is to make London the best city in the world in which to do business. A key priority is promoting London as a safe and resilient city.

We work to improve the communication between business and police communities at a strategic, senior level, encouraging progressive ideas and innovative partnerships. London First galvanises business, government and the police service to work closer together to increase London's resilience in the event of a major incident. As part of our commitment to keep London businesses informed we set up the resilience network, a forum of over 1,500 senior security and business continuity personnel.

The network receives regular news and updates, attends business briefings and workshops, participates in online emergency scenario tests and uses the network as a platform to share guidance and good practice between private and public sector.

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IBM's portfolio of business continuity and resiliency services offers the broadest range of solutions available in the marketplace today-spanning hardware, software and services.IBM provides scalable solutions for all sizes of organisations helping you respond locally, regionally or globally to opportunities, threats and regulatory pressures -- so you can protect your brand, deliver real business value, maintain customer and partner relationships and position yourself for growth.

IBM assists clients in developing and implementing business continuity strategies and plans; their capabilities include over 160 recovery facilities worldwide with ongoing investment, of which more than 20 are in the UK offering a comprehensive, integrated portfolio of proven service offerings that can be tailored to any organisation's specific business continuity needs.

IBM's reputation, built on a commitment to best practices and world-class reliability, gives you a level of trust in IBM and delivers credibility that you can transfer to your own customers, government regulators, and other decision makers within your own organisation.Employing its own team of full time business continuity consultants, IBM provides dedicated industry specialised resources and does not subcontract to other consulting practices. IBM's methodology is constantly updated to reflect IBM's thought leadership and changing marketplace requirements such as BS 25999, NFPA 1600, APS 232, PAS 77 and other relevant standards and regulations worldwide to ensure you receive service that achieves the highest standards.

IBM's world-class industry professionals, with their unique combination of local, regional and global knowledge, use proven methodologies and processes to help you devise a truly comprehensive and customized solution that addresses all aspects of your business.

IBM's degree of technical knowledge distinguishes it from its competitors and brings leading edge solutions to the market quickly. IBM is one of the world's largest and most long-established IT services companies with a record of managing its business successfully through turbulent times. IBM offers skills in operational risk management, security, high availability solutions, systems and data management, network design and implementation, platform and data centre consolidation, machine room construction and desktop infrastructure, as well as platform and application knowledge.

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As the UK's fastest growing business continuity specialist, ICM delivers clients with an unrivalled level of service in business continuity planning and vendor neutral IT disaster recovery as well as consultancy services and high availability solutions. With 15 business continuity centres across the UK, within just an hour's drive of the majority of UK firms, all fully connected by a Gbit Ethernet network, ICM is at the forefront of UK business continuity provision. From replacement premises, mobile datacentres, standby IT and telephony systems through to professional business continuity planning and technical recovery expertise ICM offer 100% disaster recovery scenario coverage and support to companies across every business sector.
Find out more about ICM call 08448 63 00 63, email info@icm-continuity.co.uk or visit www.icm-continuity.co.uk




Vocal are a market leading provider of mission critical business communication solutions to over 2000 businesses worldwide; from Business Continuity and Emergency Planning applications through to corporate messaging systems.

Vocal’s iModus platform was named ‘Most Innovative Product of the Year’ at the 2008 Business Continuity Awards, whose judges announced iModus as “one of the most important tools for communication that the industry has at its fingertips”.

iModus is a powerful multi-tiered communication platform providing broadcast, receipt and message control to single recipients or groups of users via SMS, Voice, Pager, Email and PrefMail (a unique desktop messaging tool). iModus is a modular system that can be expanded to fulfil a wide range of communication and messaging functionality.

With over 10 years experience, Vocal have the experience, pedigree and range of solutions to ensure your messaging and communication requirements are implemented and managed successfully. www.vocal.co.uk

PA Consulting Group (PA) is a leading management, systems and technology consulting firm, bringing together expertise and experience from a variety of disciplines and industries to offer market-leading resilience services.

Building resilience into an organisation enables it to manage its business risk so that it can respond positively to unexpected events, withstand uncertainty and pursue opportunities.

PA's bespoke resilience solutions are based on a specific understanding of client operations, deep industry and sector insight, and breadth of specialist capability.

Through our range of resilience services, from baseline diagnosis to IT service and business continuity, we work with our clients to understand and develop a tailored resilience capability.

For more information on business resilience or related services please visit our website at: www.paconsulting.com/resilience or contact us:

Kathryn Hampson
123 Buckingham Palace Road
London
SW1W 9SR
Tel: +44 20 7881 3354
resilience@paconsulting.com

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Murray Barber, publisher
Tel: 020 7562 2434
murray.barber@cirmagazine.com