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America – The Time to Be Prepared for the Next Disaster is Now

MHA Consulting

In Hurricane Sandy in 2012, we worked with clients who were well prepared and others that were at the lowest levels of readiness. Employers lacking guidelines on how to deal with paying for employees during an extended outage; how long should the company be obligated to pay them for until business operations are restored?

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America – The Time to Be Prepared for the Next Disaster is Now

MHA Consulting

In Hurricane Sandy in 2012, we worked with clients who were well prepared and others that were at the lowest levels of readiness. Employers lacking guidelines on how to deal with paying for employees during an extended outage; how long should the company be obligated to pay them for until business operations are restored?

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Pure Storage Architecture 101: Built-in Performance and Availability

Pure Storage

However, this also means that during a planned or unplanned outage of a single controller, the array has lost 50% of its total performance profile. If not, a single controller failure could cause a data outage or corruption. This brings two challenges: data consistency and complexity. All controllers must act in harmony as one.

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4 Ways To Ensure Reliability of Your Digital Services for GivingTuesday by Jesse Maddex

PagerDuty

The growth of GivingTuesday (which takes place on the Tuesday following Black Friday) from $10 million in nonprofit donations in 2012 to more than $2 billion in 2020 shows that many people in the U.S. Black Friday represented a major shopping opportunity for retailers. Keeping your digital operations up and running is crucial.

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5 Ways Smart Cities Use Data—and 4 Ways to Keep That Data Secure

Pure Storage

If security events and outages can cause enterprises to come to a grinding halt—what about a city that’s running on data? In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in 2012, New York City emergency management officials realized there were flaws in the city’s data infrastructure. How to Address Smart City Data Risks.

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World Backup Day: Back Up More Than Just Data—Back Up Your Business

NexusTek

In 2012, Carnegie Mellon’s Software Engineering Institute (SEI) and the U.S. Warning: A single failurecyberattack, outage, or human errorcould result in total data loss and extended downtime. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) recommended the 3-2-1 rule as a best practice for ensuring data resilience.

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