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Ep. 07: Spotlight on Business Continuity Programs in Healthcare | James Mitchell

The Failover Plan Podcast

The last few months he has been heavily involved with a historic pandemic response at Texas Children’s which involved a 140+ day activation of their incident command system. 26:28min- The role of his BC program in non-traditional activities like COVID. Key Points: 0:28min- James’ background. 22:47min- Is he lucky? Links: LinkedIn .

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Former FEMA Administrator Calls for Reform

Recovery Diva

Some excerpts: “As FEMA administrator beginning in 2017, I witnessed the agency stretched thin by one crisis after another — a pattern that has only intensified since I left office five years ago. From The Hill: Why America Needs Disaster Reform Now. Author is Brock Long.

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Emergency Planning

The exercises revealed, for example, that special attention needed to be given to protecting the residents of care homes (PHE 2017, pp. Civil protection, when it works, is a form of participatory democracy, in which the citizen has an active stake in his or her own safety and security. The plans were not connected to anything.

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Non Disruptive Upgrades: The Pure Storage Ship of Theseus

Pure Storage

But, in 2017, we began shipping NVMe-based FlashArray systems and also allowed for customers to non-disruptively upgrade the SAS backplanes on their existing arrays to NVMe. The keys to enabling their non-disruptive swap are twofold: Active/passive controllers (sort of): FlashArray is configured with two storage controllers.

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Reflections on the Turkish-Syrian Earthquakes of 6th February 2023: Building Collapse and its Consequences

Emergency Planning

Vox clamantis in deserto : to examine this aspect of the disaster one would have to face up to difficult issues, such as corruption, political decision making, people's expectations of public safety, fatalism versus activism, and more. How much simpler to attribute it all to anonymous forces within the ground! Natural Hazards 109: 161-200.

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The Storage Architecture Spectrum: Why “Shared-nothing” Means Nothing

Pure Storage

I use these examples to illustrate the huge difference between a simple active-passive database running on two servers and a scalable cloud-native database that gets lost when you describe a system merely as “shared-nothing.” Almost as impressive, when it launched in 2017, the first FlashBlade system supported a maximum of 120TB of flash.

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A brief critique of UK emergency arrangements in the light of the Covid-19 crisis

Emergency Planning

In 2017, the responses to the Manchester Arena bombings and the Grenfell Tower fire were substantially criticised. A gulf has therefore developed between plans and the ability to activate them. The same shortcomings were present in the 2005 London bombings, as were others (for example, the way in which 'major incident' as declared).