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Non Disruptive Upgrades: The Pure Storage Ship of Theseus

Pure Storage

One Pure Storage customer has done this to their original FlashArray FA-420 purchased in 2013 to include their controllers, bus architectures, and DirectFlash® Modules (DFMs) to become a FlashArray//X70 R3. Both controllers can receive I/O during normal operations, but the system only processes data through the active one.

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More on the Covid-19 Academic Gold Rush

Emergency Planning

In this context, I salute the thoughtful work of Christopher Gomez, Dierdre Hart and JC Gaillard (Gomez and Hart 2013, Gaillard and Gomez 2015) on the phenomenon of the "disaster gold rush". If we are asked to do more, it must be at the expense of some other activity. This also exists outside the academic field. Gaillard, J-C.

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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Emergency Planning

In disaster risk reduction circles, there is an almost desperate reliance on 'community' and a strong growth in studies and plans to "involve the community" in facing up to risks and impacts (Berkes and Ross 2013). In Florence, by contrast, there is a living, active concept of fiorentinesimo. I need not repeat them here. Statler and R.

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California Bills Would Impact Artificial Intelligence, Shape Security

Security Industry Association

Earlier in the process, a clarification was added that excludes AI used for cyber and physical security purposes from these regiments to address the potential risk of compromise to such systems through disclosure, a key outcome actively encouraged by SIA.

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Sustainability Reporting Accelerator

Advancing Analytics

Since 1 October 2013 the Companies Act 2006 (Strategic Report and Directors’ Report) Regulations 2013 have required all UK quoted companies to report on greenhouse gas emissions as part of their annual Directors' Report. Scope 3a are all indirect emissions relating to the upstream activities, which aid the business in its activities.

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Risk Assessments and Internal Controls

Reciprocity

Internal controls are policies, procedures, and other activities implemented by a business to assure that it can achieve its objectives. COSO first published its internal control framework in 1992, followed by a modern-day overhaul in 2013. Control activities. Monitoring activities. Information and communication.

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Counting Costs: The Impact of a Government Shutdown on the Security Industry

Security Industry Association

Department of Defense and four other major departments, the looming shutdown could affect all federal agencies dependent on appropriations, making it more similar to the October 2013 shutdown that lasted 16 days. What is a government shutdown?