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Improving Pandemic Preparedness

Recovery Diva

A significant strategic issue emerging from the pandemic seems to me to be this: In almost every country, the Covid pandemic required management skills and capacity beyond those available in ‘business as usual’ within the government structure.

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Can we stop the rot in academia?

Emergency Planning

Expansion, competitivity and the desire for hyper-visible progress induce university administrators to pile on the tasks with no attention either to a person's capacity or his or her priorities. During the worst of the pandemic there was, no doubt rightly, a huge emphasis on student welfare.

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Breakthrough Awards: Folding@home, our Pure Good Winner

Pure Storage

The pandemic has shone a light on Folding@home, for all the right reasons. . Processing 100,000 Times More Data at the Peak of the Pandemic. By separating our capacity from compute, we’re able to get more out of our compute resources, which gives us the ability to ask questions at an unprecedented scale.

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Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

Testimony to the House of Representatives Committee on Rules’ Subcommittee on Legislative and Budget Process for the Hearing: Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters. Testimony Submitted January 16, 2022. By: Jeff Schlegelmilch, MPH, MBA.

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Why FlashStack Is Right for Your Customers

Pure Storage

During the global pandemic and subsequent evolution of how partners collaborate safely, Pure and Cisco completed a full redesign of FlashStack so that it delivers a modern architecture to maximize the benefit of technology that is sustainable, secure, and simple to manage. It’s a highly sustainable solution that is simple to manage.

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Overcoming the Challenges of Contact Center Data

Pure Storage

Prior to the pandemic, many enterprises were reluctant to fully move to contact center as-a-service (CCaaS) environments, despite the availability of the technology. This shift has propelled customer experience (CX) transformation into hyperdrive while simultaneously increasing the volume of structured and unstructured data.

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Book Review: Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management

Recovery Diva

3 …requires full harnessing of the communities transformative and adaptive capacity in order to reduce risks for the future…working to eliminate existing patterns of unequal distribution of risk. #4 4 …is not possible without equal access to resources and programs.