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Black Swans and Swiss Cheese – A Boat Crash in Baltimore

Plan B Consulting

The ship lost power and had to wait for the backup generators to kick in. The location and timing were very important in causing this incident and it reminded me of the factors which caused the Selby rail crash in the UK in 2001, in which 10 people died.

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VMware vs. OpenStack: Choosing the Right Cloud Management Solution

Pure Storage

The company gained major attention in 2001 with the release of VMware ESX Server (now known as VMware ESXi Server ), a hypervisor-based platform that revolutionized server virtualization. media files, backups) with high durability and availability. Object storage: Swift is OpenStack’s distributed object storage system.