Awang Yahya with Dr Goh Moh Heng and Dr Ingo Neu. - JAMES KON
As the H1N1 death toll and infections continue to rise in Malaysia, Thailand and lately in India, Brunei is taking every step to prepare for the worst.To enhance the government agencies in preparing for pandemic disaster, a one-day workshop on Business Continuity Plan was organised by the National Disaster Management Centre yesterday. Awang Yahya bin Hj Abd Rahman, Director of Fire and Rescue Department who is also the Director of National Disaster Management Centre, opened the workshop saying, "This workshop is the first of its kind and its objective is to enhance various government agencies' preparedness in time of disaster. "As we all know, we are continuously confronted with challenges to sustain our core functions to handle unknown threats of pandemic influenza, natural disasters, climate changes or internal system failure. "If we look back at the number of disasters that Brunei has faced, it shows an increasing trend. For example in 2007, we were confronted with strong winds and flood, in 2008 we had flood, strong winds and also landslides, but this year we are faced with a pandemic and haze apart from landslides, flood and fires.
United Arab Emirates (Sunday, February 08): eHosting DataFort (eHDF) announced it has entered into a partnership with the Singapore-based Business Continuity Management Institute (BCM Institute) and GMH Pte Ltd (GMH) to jointly provide organizations across the Middle East with end-to-end IT services focusing on business continuity and data recovery.
Dr Goh Moh Heng, President of the BCM Institute and Managing Director of GMH , said: 'eHDF has demonstrated its expertise in building and managing data centers, providing data centre services and DR services. Similiarly to BCM Institute, GMH has already delivered BCM consulting, implementation, testing, assurance and audit services across the world and BCP in Asia. 
Mr. Mohammad Fouz, CEO of EHDF, said, 'eHDF's broad-based expertise in all facets of IT, in addition to its status as a well entrenched leader in the Middle East, and BCM Institute's standing as a global major in BCM and DR certification demonstrate a perfect match. The synergies of this partnership will significantly benefit a large number of organisations in the region. We continuously strive to provide our clients in the Middle East with the latest and best IT services. This partnership is a testament to our dedication to ensuring that our clients have access to the top-notch services founded on international best practices.
