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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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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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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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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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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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Preparing Chemical Facilities for Hurricane Season

National Fire Protection Association

Chemical Safety Board issued a call to chemical facilities to prepare for a harsh hurricane season based on an “above average” outlook on hurricane activity from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Recently, the U.S. NOAA’s predictions also estimate a range of 12 to 17 total named storms this season.

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Double trouble: When climate change and cyber crime collide

everbridge

In 2017, during Hurricane Harvey, which caused catastrophic flooding in Houston and surrounding areas, again, multiple cyberattacks emerged , including phishing campaigns, fraudulent donation websites, and fake charities.

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