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Reflecting on 15 Years of Pure Storage

Pure Storage

2009: A Perfect Storm Forms The IT world is always in a continual state of change, but 2009 was particularly turbulent: VMware with operating system virtualization had become the de facto standard for most organizations. These three variables were the enterprise storage industry’s sole guidance in 2009.

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The Lives of Veterans Experiencing Homelessness

The Rand Blog

The United States pledged in 2009 to end veteran homelessness. The numbers have fallen by nearly half since then, but there are still more than 37,000 veterans living in their cars, in temporary shelters, or in makeshift camps. Researchers followed 26 of them for one year to see how they live and what keeps them on the streets.

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Seeing and Hearing: Underrated Skills?

Emergency Planning

People came from far and wide to attach the Renaissance equivalent of ‘Post-It’ notes to the pedestal to express what they thought of the work (Forcellino 2009, p. References Forcellino, Antonio 2009. Despite the immense outpouring of creativity in Florence in that period, people were not satiated with images. The Story of Art.

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Why Crisis Management Planning Should Be On Your To-Do List

Bernstein Crisis Management

Product Recalls: Toyota and Johnson & Johnson Toyota’s response to their acceleration issues in 2009-2011 involved recalling millions of vehicles, cooperating with investigations, and improving quality control processes. Their prompt and transparent response helped preserve customer trust and confidence.

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Maui Wildfire Disaster Recovery

Disaster Zone Podcast

Since its release in 2009, Sean's book The Red Guide to Recovery - Resource Handbook for Disaster Survivors has been adopted by emergency management agencies, fire departments, Native tribes, relief organizations, and fortune 500 companies across the U.S.

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Why cloud networking infrastructure underpins the omnipresent customer experience

Citrix

That study was in 2009; Gordon Brown was the … The post Why cloud networking infrastructure underpins the omnipresent customer experience first appeared on Citrix Blogs. We all know that latency across digital channels hits revenues hard. A famed Amazon study from over a decade ago found every 100ms of latency costs 1 per cent in sales.

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Terrorism Research: How RAND Defined and Built a New Field of Knowledge

The Rand Blog

Maintained until 2009, it chronicles more than 40,000 terrorist attacks since 1968. In the early 1970s, amid a worldwide rash of bombings, hijackings, and hostage-takings, RAND researchers began creating the first international database of terrorist incidents.

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