Sat.Feb 11, 2023 - Fri.Feb 17, 2023

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Crisis Communication Strategy: First 5 Things To Do When a Crisis Breaks

Bernstein Crisis Management

Crisis Communication Strategy: First 5 Things To Do When a Crisis Breaks A major part of any crisis communication strategy is doing the preparedness and prevention work before you find yourself facing true crisis-level events that threaten to harm people or property, seriously interrupt operations and/or damage reputation. While I’ll certainly hope not many need to put these techniques into action anytime soon, the reality is that every business encounters a real deal, can’t-avoid-it, crisis at

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How to ‘Nudge’ People Along

Disaster Zone

Indirect ways to move people and organizations.

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Ransomware Roundup: Cities and Schools Are High-Profile Targets

DRI Drive

IT budget constraints and lack of dedicated resources make public networks used by cities and schools enticing targets for cybercriminals. These recent cases show just how fast ransomware attacks can disrupt unprepared organizations. Oakland, CA declared a local state of emergency after a Feb. 8 ransomware attack because of the impact of a ransomware attack […] The post Ransomware Roundup: Cities and Schools Are High-Profile Targets appeared first on DRI Drive.

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Support to Ukraine Continues to Be for America First

The Rand Blog

Why should the United States spend tens of billions of dollars on a war half a world away? Because it's in America's economic and strategic interests.

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Supply Chain Resilience Checklist

Strengthen your operations with the Supply Chain Resilience Checklist. This practical, easy-to-use tool helps your organization prepare for disruptions and ensure long-term continuity in an unpredictable world. Why Download: Identify and assess critical supply chain risks Ask the right questions to evaluate vendor preparedness Implement effective strategies to reduce vulnerabilities Improve communication, transparency, and coordination across your network What You’ll Learn: How to evaluate and m

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Becoming Prepared to Deal with Any Disaster

Disaster Zone Podcast

This podcast’s guest is Patrick Hardy who is the founder and CEO of Hytropy Disaster Management ™ Patrick is a Certified Emergency Manager®, Certified Risk Manager®, Master Business Continuity Professional®, and a FEMA Master of Exercise®, he has extensive experience working in the public, private, and non-profit sectors in disaster management from micro-businesses to Fortune 500 companies.

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FlashBlade 4.1: Introducing Object Lock

Pure Storage

For the past decade, object storage has replaced many legacy enterprise storage platforms like tape, virtual tape library (VTL), purpose-built backup appliances, and others due to its inherent advantages with performance and scale. IDC estimates that by 2025 the sum of all data in the world will be in the order of 175 zettabytes (one zettabyte is 10^21 bytes), and of this data, IDC expects 80% to be unstructured data like objects.

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Brain and Machine Confluence Requires Multi-Sectoral Regulation To Maximize Gains

The Rand Blog

As the commercialization of brain-computer interface technology expands, it would be prudent for international policymakers to consider how this technology should be regulated, in order to reap its benefits and minimize its risks.

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More on Building Codes In Turkey

Recovery Diva

From the WashPost: Earthquakes Destroy. People Rebuild. Cities are a form of life and they need constant care to stay strong. They didn’t get that care in Turkey. An Excerpt: “According to The Associated Press, a Turkish government agency has acknowledged that more than half of all buildings in the country don’t meet earthquake standards.

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Ohio Train Derailment — Continued Impacts

Disaster Zone

The environment we live in.

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How to Avoid Pitfalls In Automation: Keep Humans In the Loop

Speaker: Erroll Amacker

Automation is transforming finance but without strong financial oversight it can introduce more risk than reward. From missed discrepancies to strained vendor relationships, accounts payable automation needs a human touch to deliver lasting value. This session is your playbook to get automation right. We’ll explore how to balance speed with control, boost decision-making through human-machine collaboration, and unlock ROI with fewer errors, stronger fraud prevention, and smoother operations.

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FlashArray Delivers NVMe/TCP in Move Toward Cloud Operating Model

Pure Storage

Has this happened to you? You’ve modernized your storage infrastructure to boost performance, replacing disk-based solutions with all-flash arrays and upgrading to 200G+ Ethernet switches. But after testing some workloads over the network, you’re not seeing the low latency and high throughput the storage vendor advertised for its NVMe arrays. The reason is simple: Overall performance is only as fast as the slowest connection.

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From Gatherer of Lands to Gravedigger: A Political Assessment of Putin's War on Ukraine

The Rand Blog

Putin's war in Ukraine is already redefining the entire international order. If the United States acts now, it may be able to influence the shape of the post-war geopolitical terrain.

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NexusTek Recognized on CRN’s 2023 MSP 500 List

NexusTek

February 15, 2023 NexusTek Recognized on CRN’s 2023 MSP 500 List Honored as a leading solution provider for the seventh consecutive year Denver , CO , February 15, 2023 — NexusTek, a top national cloud, managed IT services, and cybersecurity provider, announced today that CRN ® , a brand of The Channel Company , has named NexusTek to its Managed Service Provider (MSP) 500 list in the Elite 150 category for 2023.

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Why Was the Chinese Balloon So Big?

Disaster Zone

Short answer: It was an antenna.

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Mastering Remote Onboarding: Proven Strategies for Seamless New Hire Integration

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

Join this brand new webinar with Tim Buteyn to learn how you can master the art of remote onboarding! By the end of this session, you'll understand how to: Craft a Tailored Onboarding Checklist 📝 Develop a comprehensive, customized checklist that ensures every new hire has a smooth transition into your company, no matter where they are in the world.

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Pure Announces NVMe/TCP, Another Step Towards the Cloud Operating Model

Pure Storage

Whether for processing the data generated by your business or keeping that deluge of data protected, boosting storage performance is always a priority. With its parallel data streams and low-latency access, NVMe was designed to capitalize on flash’s groundbreaking performance and get around SCSI’s inherent bottlenecks. Now, with Purity//FA 6.4.2, FlashArray supports NVMe/TCP, the final missing piece required for mainstream adoption of NVMe over Fabrics, in addition to FC and RoCE.

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Russia's Appetite May Extend Beyond Ukraine

The Rand Blog

Unless Russian forces are defeated in Ukraine or withdrawn by new Kremlin rulers, Moscow might assault other post-Soviet neighbors. The West may face limits on the extent to which it could help them thwart such attacks.

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SIA New Member Profile: CoreWillSoft

Security Industry Association

New Security Industry Association (SIA) member CoreWillSoft specializes in delivering solutions for physical security, with expertise in cloud, on-premises and mobile solutions. The company is headquartered in Bonn, Germany. SIA spoke with Ivan Kravchenko, CEO of CoreWillSoft, about the company, the security industry and working with SIA. Tell us the story of your company.

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Disaster Zone Podcast: Becoming Prepared to Deal with Any Disaster

Disaster Zone

New thinking on a challenging topic.

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Emergency Preparedness: Active Shooter Tabletop Exercise

April is Workplace Violence Prevention Awareness Month. Enhance your organization’s emergency preparedness with our Active Shooter Tabletop Exercise. Download now to strategically plan, prepare, and test your response to active shooter situations. Key Features: Plan, prepare, and test your emergency response strategy. Simulate real-world scenarios to mitigate risks.

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IOPS vs. Throughput: Why Both Matter

Pure Storage

Both input/output operations per second (IOPS) and throughput are very important metrics for measuring data storage performance for hard drives (HDDs or SSDs) and storage area networks. However, they each measure different things and there are various factors to take into account for both of them. If you want to skip right to how Pure customers are using FlashArray ™ in terms of reads and writes based on IO input data from across the entire FlashArray fleet deployed across thousands of customers

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Six Common Challenges to Migration Projects and Tips to Overcome Them

Zerto

Datacenter migration projects can be some of the most challenging events in an IT professional’s career. Whether moving workloads to another datacenter, to the cloud, or to the edge, migrations may be impacted by many factors but many of these can be overcome with proper planning and the right tools. Here are six common challenges to migration projects and some tips on how to overcome them in your migration project. 1.

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Five Cybersecurity Sessions You Can’t Miss at ISC West

Security Industry Association

ISC West 2023 is coming up March 28-31 in Las Vegas, and the Security Industry Association (SIA) and ISC West recently revealed full conference details for the SIA Education@ISC West program , including keynote presentations from top luminaries and 65+ sessions on the most current business trends, technologies and industry developments. Among the robust lineup of conference sessions are several dynamic presentations featuring expert insights on cybersecurity.

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Question: What About Earthquake Impacts Here in the USA?

Disaster Zone

This is a question people are asking.

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How to Put Your Business Continuity Plans into Action

During a crisis, successful organizations are led by strong leaders who communicate continuously with all stakeholders and have plans that are flexible enough to allow changes to be made on the fly. What You'll Learn: Understanding the characteristics of actionable business continuity plans. Step-by-step guidance on building robust and adaptable BCPs.

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Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Challenges and How Pure Helps Solve Them

Pure Storage

The world’s digitization has led the semiconductor market to take off. You’ve probably seen the headlines: Sales have increased more than 20% to about $600 billion in 2021 and are anticipated to grow by 6% to 8% a year until 2030. With this growth comes challenges around the core processes involved in semiconductor chip manufacturing. One of these core processes is electronic design automation (EDA).

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7 Reasons Businesses Love Having a Dedicated Engineer

NexusTek

READ TIME: 4 MIN February 14, 2023 7 Reasons Businesses Love Having a Dedicated Engineer It’s Valentine’s Day, and love is in the air. And in the world of IT management, few are so roundly adored as dedicated engineers. This may prompt the question: What is a dedicated engineer? A dedicated engineer is a highly skilled IT professional who is assigned to a specific business, and who provides routine and as-needed technical support to keep the business’ infrastructure running smoothly.

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Welcome to the Citrix Technology Professional (CTP) class of 2023!

Citrix

In 2018, we restructured the Citrix Technology Professional (CTP) program by partnering CTP members with Citrix product managers and engineers to form specialty product-focused groups. These smaller working teams have engendered greater trust and better communication between CTPs and product … The post Welcome to the Citrix Technology Professional (CTP) class of 2023!

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Bing and Google Square Off on Using AI

Disaster Zone

Search engine wars are only beginning

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Next-Level Fraud Prevention: Strategies for Today’s Threat Landscape

Speaker: Sierre Lindgren

Fraud is a battle that every organization must face – it’s no longer a question of “if” but “when.” Every organization is a potential target for fraud, and the finance department is often the bullseye. From cleverly disguised emails to fraudulent payment requests, the tactics of cybercriminals are advancing rapidly. Drawing insights from real-world cases and industry expertise, we’ll explore the vulnerabilities in your processes and how to fortify them effectively.

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BCM Basics: The Strategic Side of Crisis Management  

MHA Consulting

This post is part of BCM Basics, a series of occasional, entry-level blogs on some of the key concepts in business continuity management. Most companies have a pretty good handle on the tactical side of crisis management. Few have given much thought to the strategic side, an oversight which can lead to costly delays and bad decisions during an emergency.

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Earthquake in Turkey and Syria, Facial Recognition, Gun Violence: RAND Weekly Recap

The Rand Blog

This weekly recap focuses on the devastating earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria, regulating the use of facial recognition technology by law enforcement, improving data collection on gun violence, and more.

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Announcing the newest Citrix Technology Advocate (CTA) awardees!

Citrix

We are very excited to share the newest additions to our Citrix Technology Advocate (CTA) class of 2023! CTAs are Citrix User Group Community super-users. They are Citrix customers, partners, and Citrix employees who advocate for Citrix on their own … The post Announcing the newest Citrix Technology Advocate (CTA) awardees! first appeared on Citrix Blogs.