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Breakthrough Awards: Folding@home, our Pure Good Winner

Pure Storage

The pandemic has shone a light on Folding@home, for all the right reasons. . Processing 100,000 Times More Data at the Peak of the Pandemic. Folding@home was founded in 2000 on the notion that there is massive untapped compute power sitting in most peoples’ homes waiting to be mobilized against the world’s toughest problems.

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Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

Testimony to the House of Representatives Committee on Rules’ Subcommittee on Legislative and Budget Process for the Hearing: Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters. Figure 1: Supplemental appropriations by fiscal year, FY 2000–2021. Testimony Submitted January 16, 2022. 1] [link]. _. 1] [link]. [2]

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Book Review: Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management

Recovery Diva

Chapter 2, “Mutual Aid: Grassroots Model for Justice and Equity in Emergency Management” by Miriam Belblidia and Chenier Kliebert, describes successful lessons of a Mutual Aid Response Network (MARN) involving over 5,000 participants in a grassroots response to COVOID-19 pandemic and a record-breaking Gulf Coast hurricane season 2020.

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SIA New Member Profile: SecureBI

Security Industry Association

Brandon Reich : I have worked in leadership capacities for various security companies since 2000. At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic I started looking for this kind of provider. I saw an opportunity to help security businesses with that and thought, what better time to start a company than a global pandemic?

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SIA New Member Profile: Enterprise Security, Inc.

Security Industry Association

Joseph Emens : Established in 2000, Enterprise Security, Inc., Disruptions in the supply chain, such as those caused by global events like the COVID-19 pandemic, natural disasters or political conflicts, can lead to delays in product availability and increased costs. Emens, chief operating officer at Enterprise Security, Inc.,

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CAPEX vs. Subscriptions: How to Determine the True Value in IT Services

Pure Storage

Gartner, IDC, and other industry analysts estimate that approximately half of Global 2000 ranked public companies will procure their infrastructure through “as-a-service” offerings by 2024.

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Mobile Credentials for Built Environments

Security Industry Association

For college students born after 2000 who have long had smartphones incorporated into every aspect of their lives, this was a huge win. Millions of packages are delivered to apartments and homes daily, a trend that picked up massively during the COVID-19 pandemic, causing the U.S. Adoption has been swifth and theres no going back.