Monday, March 1, 2010

"Israeli companies establish overseas presence due to 'fears of missiles' & other calamities ..."

On the Israeli site PC/here
The goal of companies is to back up their financial information and ensure business continuity in case the country is 'harmed' or a disaster occurs at their facilities... ● Halperin (HMS) recently signed an agreement with the meter - Naotolis, totaling tens of millions of shekels, to lease thousands of feet of "secure backup facility in Italy", ...
Iranian threat, warnings of Hezbollah's Hassan Nasrallah, and earthquakes prompted hundreds of Israeli companies to look for ways to establish facilities outside the country....
.... a senior adviser with Halperin, said that "this is a new trend"... Until the second Lebanon war, Israeli companies and organizations prefered to build up information sites within Israel due to a relatively easy access and operation, resulting from geographical proximity....
However, Threats missiles, Iran and Hezbollah in Lebanon, as well as fear of earthquakes, brought a radical change in the perception of security and storage of information. Israeli companies began to realize that one should preferably have backup sites and data locations abroad....."

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