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Record Number of 25 Billion Dollar Disasters in 2023

Recovery Diva

From HSNews: Record Number of 25 Billion Dollar Disasters in 2023 So Far. NOAA confirmed another billion-dollar disaster in October, bringing the total to a record 25 disasters in the first 10 months — the largest number of disasters for any year since NOAA has kept track of these types of events. The Mississippi River’s water level dropped to historic lows along parts of the river.

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Disaster Zone Podcast: Gaming Cybersecurity Training

Disaster Zone

A different approach to training teams on cybersecurity.

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Crisis Communication Examples – The Good and the…Not So Good

Bernstein Crisis Management

Crisis Communication Examples – The Good and the…Not So Good In the realm of public relations and brand management, crisis communication plays a critical role. A well-handled crisis can significantly mitigate damage to a brand’s reputation, while a poorly managed one can amplify the negative impact. This post will explore some notable crisis communication examples from well-known brands in recent years, highlighting both effective and…let’s just say “not so ef

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Gaming Cybersecurity Training

Disaster Zone Podcast

Cybersecurity training could seem as exciting as watching paint dry. However, the Idaho National Lab has found a way to make such training much more interesting. In this podcast I interview Jeff Hahn who is the project manager and Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity Engineer at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL). He leads the Cybersecurity for Industrial Control Systems (ICS) training aligned with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Critical Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).

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The Complete Guide to Mastering Business Continuity

The Complete Guide to Mastering Business Continuity is a step-by-step resource for developing an effective Business Continuity Management (BCM) program and navigating challenges. Whether building from scratch or enhancing a plan, this guide offers practical tools, expert advice, and strategies to ensure resilience. What You’ll Learn: Key elements of BCM and resiliency Steps to build and test your Business Continuity Plan (BCP) Conducting risk assessments and BIAs Integrating cybersecurity into p

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3 New IT Certifications That Will Define the Future of Enterprise Data Management

Pure Storage

3 New IT Certifications That Will Define the Future of Enterprise Data Management by Pure Storage Blog At Pure Storage, we do things differently. We don’t just sell data storage aimed at solving specific use cases and leave it at that. That’s been the conventional approach to storage for decades. Yes, we cover backup and recovery, data services, and much more, from high performance to high capacity, but we’re fundamentally different in that we approach data storage from an integrated systems per

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Choosing the Right Crisis Management Agency

Bernstein Crisis Management

Choosing the Right Crisis Management Agency In modern business having a reliable crisis management agency by your side is not just a safety net; it’s a strategic necessity. Whether you’re dealing with a PR fiasco, a legal challenge, or a social media mishap, the right agency can be the difference between a quietly resolved issue and a full-blown corporate catastrophe.

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Gen 10: Redefining Data Protection to Secure Your Future

Unitrends

In today’s fast-paced and ever-changing digital landscape, protecting your business-critical data can be a daunting task. The continuous growth of data across various platforms and environments is redefining the very essence of data protection. Meanwhile, cyberthreats are evolving at breakneck speed, with cybercriminals leveraging innovative tactics and cutting-edge technologies to launch increasingly sophisticated and damaging […] The post Gen 10: Redefining Data Protection to Secur

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How to Take Your AI into Production without Breaking the Bank

Pure Storage

How to Take Your AI into Production without Breaking the Bank by Pure Storage Blog AI is like any other technology: The more you use it, the better and more helpful it becomes, but also, typically, the more expensive it becomes. Oftentimes, companies fail to consider what they’ll do when their AI projects grow to the point where their total cost of ownership (TCO) starts to greatly exceed the value of the project.

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5 Persistent Cloud Security Myths…and Why You Should Ignore Them

NexusTek

READ TIME: 4 MIN November 15, 2023 5 Persistent Cloud Security Myths…and Why You Should Ignore Them Since the early days of the cloud, myths have abounded. Cloud security, in particular, is often misunderstood. To clear up the confusion, we will “bust” 5 common myths about cloud security. Myth 1: Cloud Providers Automatically Include Security One common myth is that cloud providers like Azure or AWS automatically come with full security.

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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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New GAO Report on Covid Funding

Recovery Diva

From the GAO: COVID-19 Relief Funds: State Experiences Could Inform Future Federal Relief Funding

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A Governor's Election Impacted by Disasters

Disaster Zone

Did this happen in Kentucky?

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The Resilience Journey: Transforming EHR Data Protection

Pure Storage

The Resilience Journey: Transforming EHR Data Protection by Pure Storage Blog The term “backup” had an entirely different meaning to clinicians during the early generations of electronic health record (EHR) systems. Back then, backup meant having enough paper forms on hand for clinicians to manually write patient notes when the EHR was unavailable, which frequently happened with planned downtime.

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Why Real-Time Encryption Detection Matters

Zerto

When Zerto came out of stealth mode in 2011, we immediately made a splash by winning VMworld’s Best of Show award and earning some great early customers—including banks, colleges, and retailers that are still partnering with us a dozen years later. Early customers primarily implemented Zerto for disaster recovery , but it wasn’t long until these organizations began telling us about another critical use case: cyber recovery and ransomware recovery.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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From Chaos to Actionable Insights with PagerDuty Integrations and Automation by Tiago Barbosa

PagerDuty

It’s 2023. In today’s world, every company and individual, regardless of their industry, relies on software to increase productivity. Our users expect our technology to be available and reliable at all times. If your software serves businesses within a single country during regular working hours, they expect it to be available throughout that time.

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Compass 2023 key takeaways: The evolution of business continuity

Fusion Risk Management

Compass , Fusion’s annual customer summit, brings our global customers together in person to learn from other industry leaders and build their continuity and resilience capabilities. This year, we were thrilled to be able to bring our Fusion community together in New York and London again, and we’re so proud of the overwhelmingly positive feedback that we’ve received.

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Pure Simplifies and Accelerates AI Success with AIRI Built on NVIDIA DGX BasePOD

Pure Storage

Pure Simplifies and Accelerates AI Success with AIRI Built on NVIDIA DGX BasePOD by Pure Storage Blog The deployment of AI is a major challenge with many different choices when it comes to technology and infrastructure. Pure Storage pioneered in 2018 the concept of AI-ready infrastructure (AIRI) to simplify AI technology deployments. AIRI ® is a proven, validated compute, storage, and network stack that is optimized for AI.

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Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of November 17; Updates from Cohesity, Rubrik, Veeam & More

Solutions Review

Solutions Review editors curated this list of the most noteworthy storage and data protection news items for the week of November 17, 2023. Keeping tabs on all the most relevant storage and data protection news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines from the last week, in this space.

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Is Training the Right Solution?

Speaker: Tim Buteyn

Let's set the scene: you’ve identified a critical performance gap in your organization and need to close that gap. A colleague suggests training, but you suspect there’s something going on that training can’t address. How can you determine if training is the right solution before you commit your budget and resources to a new training program? In this webinar, you will learn how to determine if training is the right solution using the Behavior Engineering Model.

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7 Habits of Successful Generative AI Adopters by Dormain Drewitz

PagerDuty

Generative AI is forecasted to have a massive impact on the economy. These headlines are driving software teams to rapidly consider how they can incorporate generative AI into their software, or risk falling behind in a sea-change of disruption. But in the froth of a disruptive technology, there’s also high risk of wasted investment and lost customer trust.

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Hybrid cloud backup: Ensuring data security and reliability

Acronis

The security and reliability of information assets remains a key concern for businesses of all sizes. Even among small businesses, the role of data backup has evolved both in necessity and execution, with the hybrid cloud emerging as a solution that combines the best of both private and public cloud environments.

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Data Storage Challenges in Electric and Hybrid Vehicles

Pure Storage

Data Storage Challenges in Electric and Hybrid Vehicles by Pure Storage Blog The automotive industry is headed the direction of electric cars. There’s no shortage of stats on where this industry is going: More than 2.3 million electric cars were sold in the first quarter of 2023, about 25% more than in the same period of 2022. McKinsey predicts the electric vehicle market will end up growing sixfold between 2021 and 2030 —to roughly 40 million annual units sold from 6.5 million.

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Safety Change Management: 8-Step Process for Leading Successful Change

Alert Media

Change can introduce new risks to your team's safety. Learn how to effectively manage changes and protect your organization.

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

We’ve all been there. You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out.

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New Study Finds 93% of People Prefer Speaking with a Human Rather than a Chatbot by Amberly Janke

PagerDuty

PagerDuty’s 2023 Holiday Shopping Report: Online shopping will be about the same as last year — top frustrations include poor digital experiences, security, shipping, and tracking issues. PagerDuty surveyed 3,000 consumers about their holiday shopping activities and how they prefer to work with customer service representatives. The survey revealed that a seamless digital experience is more important than ever.

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How to Fix Drafty Windows

Constellation

Drafty windows bring a chill into your home during the winter. In the summer, they let air conditioned air escape. The post How to Fix Drafty Windows appeared first on Constellation Residential and Small Business Blog.

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The 4 Best Vector Database Options for your LLM Projects

Advancing Analytics

As the potential of Generative AI and Large Language (LLM) models continue to grow at a frightening pace, it can be hard to know where to get started and get your head around all the tools needed for a successful LLM project! One key tool in any successful implementation is Vector Database, these databases are used to efficiently store and retrieve vector representations of the text or other data used with your model.

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Technology and Business Continuity: A Vital Connection

BryghtPath

Uncover the vital link between technology and business continuity. Learn how to leverage tech for seamless operations during crises. The post Technology and Business Continuity: A Vital Connection appeared first on Bryghtpath.

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Brain Fog HQ: Memory Enhancement Techniques for Professional Development

Speaker: Chester Santos – Author, International Keynote Speaker, Executive Coach, Corporate Trainer, Memory Expert, U.S. Memory Champion

In October, scientists discovered that 75% of patients who experienced brain fog had a lower quality of life at work than those who did not. At best, brain fog makes you slower and less efficient. At worst, your performance and cognitive functions are impaired, resulting in memory, management, and task completion problems. In this entertaining and interactive presentation, Chester Santos, "The International Man of Memory," will assist you in developing life-changing skills that will greatly enha