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Will 911 Survive Modernization?

Disaster Zone Podcast

When emergencies and disasters strike, we all depend on 911 Centers to be functional. Disasters range from earthquakes, cyberattacks and wildfires to local power outages, an ice storm or a white powder delivered to your door. Today 911 Centers are tech heavy places and getting even more technical as they try to keep up with consumer technology trends.

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Flooding in South Africa

Disaster Zone

Disasters are happening everywhere.

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Rebuilding Ukraine

The Rand Blog

By leveraging better investment conditions and reforms and broad international support, Ukraine could carry out a well-executed reconstruction program. It might repair much of the war damage and help Ukraine move into the ranks of faster-growing European economies.

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Some Deadly Long Term Effects from Disasters

Recovery Diva

From HSNews: Hurricanes and Other Tropical Cyclones Linked to Rise in U.S. Deaths from Several Major Causes. New study reveals potential hidden deadly cost of climate-related disasters: Injuries, infections, diseases, respiratory diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and neuropsychiatric disorders.

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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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Nation-State Cyberattacks: What Your Business Needs to Know

Unitrends

Nation-state-backed cyberattacks are by no means a new concept in today’s increasingly digitized world. These kinds of attacks accelerated further amid the COVID-19 pandemic as cybercriminals exploited escalated international tensions to steal intellectual property (IP) data related to COVID-19 vaccines. With the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, the spotlight is once again on nation-state attacks as threat […].

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Preparing for a Cyberattack Starts at the Local Level

The Rand Blog

The ongoing Russian war in Ukraine has highlighted the need for federal, state, and local level emergency managers to prepare to respond to a cyberattack with widespread impacts that significantly disrupt critical infrastructure.

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More Women Emergency Managers Are Needed

Recovery Diva

From the NYPost: More women are leading emergency responses but FEMA says industry diversity has ‘a long way to go’. Statistics from DataUSA.gov show only about 11.7% of emergency management directors are persons of color. More than 62% of emergency management directors are male, and 71% are white.

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Security Industry Association Launches New Proptech Advisory Board

Security Industry Association

SILVER SPRING, Md. – The Security Industry Association (SIA) has announced the creation of its new Proptech Advisory Board (PTAB), a group of SIA member experts that will bridge engagement between the proptech community and the global security industry through partnerships, education and thought leadership. SIA officially launched the advisory board March 22 at The Advance , SIA’s annual membership meeting at ISC West.

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Pure’s Earth Day Commitment: Sustainability for Customers and the Planet

Pure Storage

With the recent publication of Pure Storage®’s inaugural ESG report and the celebration of Earth Day on April 22, it’s the perfect time to highlight Pure’s commitments toward a better future for our planet, as well as the ways our products and services enable customers to make a difference for the environment. One of the many things that sets Pure apart is our mission to deliver products that not only exceed our customer’s expectations for performance, reliability, and simplicity but also for en

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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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Raising Business Continuity Awareness

BryghtPath

When creating an effective business continuity plan (BCP), most business leaders focus more on complacency than awareness. Most of these organizational leaders assume that no disruptive phenomena would ever happen to their company. Take the current COVID-19 pandemic, for example. Most companies were caught off guard and didn’t have a robust business continuity plan to … The post Raising Business Continuity Awareness appeared first on Bryghtpath.

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Are You on the Edge? Edge Computing, That Is…

NexusTek

READ TIME: 4 MIN. April 20, 2022. Are You on the Edge? Edge Computing, That Is… As the next “big thing” in technology, edge computing has created a buzz that is exciting but not always easy to decipher. Is edge computing just a fancy name for the Internet of Things (IoT)? Will edge computing replace the cloud? How do I prepare my business for edge computing?

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Security Industry Association Reveals Program for 2022 SIA GovSummit

Security Industry Association

SIA’s public policy and government security technology conference will take place May 24-25 in Washington, D.C. SILVER SPRING, Md. – The Security Industry Association (SIA) has announced the schedule, speaker lineup and program for the 2022 SIA GovSummit , SIA’s annual public policy and government security technology conference. SIA GovSummit 2022 will be held May 24-25 as an in-person conference at the National Association of Home Builders headquarters in downtown Washington, D.C.

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Don’t Miss Out: Join Us for Pure//Accelerate techfest22

Pure Storage

Where can you explore the latest innovations from Pure Storage®, hear from customers and peers, and discover the insights and trends to power your data? Pure//Accelerate techfest 22 is the place! Mark your calendar for 9 am PT on June 8, 2022, and get ready for a digital event that will ignite your inspiration and accelerate your data success. Whether you’re seeking to move away from legacy storage or looking for new strategies to solve nagging data challenges, Pure//Accelerate ® has the product

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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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United States Decision on ASAT Testing a Positive Step Towards Space Sustainability

The Rand Blog

The United States recently committed not to conduct destructive, direct-ascent anti-satellite missile testing. This sets an important example others might follow and takes an important first step towards a binding, international ban.

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How Citrix ADC gives you flexibility to weather chip shortages

Citrix

Can Software Save Your Network? The supply chain shortages that have hit the networking chip market have made this a very interesting time. These shortages have affected most manufacturers that produce specialty networking hardware. In my role overseeing the Citrix … The post How Citrix ADC gives you flexibility to weather chip shortages first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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The Impact of Slow Code Implementation - What is an Inspector to Do?

National Fire Protection Association

The 2023 edition of NFPA 70®, National Electrical Code (NEC®) will soon be released. You might be thinking wait, what? My jurisdiction is still enforcing an older version of the NEC, wait for me! The NFPA standards development process has hundreds of volunteers, who donate over 30,000 hours of time thoroughly reviewing each NEC article and section along with thousands of public inputs so that a. [[ This is a content summary only.

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Your COVID Questions Answered

Disaster Zone

Some good information on common questions about COVID.

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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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Climate Change Will Transform How We Live, but These Tech and Policy Experts See Reason for Optimism

The Rand Blog

To slow climate change and adapt to the damage already underway, the world will have to shift how it generates and uses energy, transports people and goods, designs buildings, and grows food. That starts with embracing innovation and change.

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Citrix App Layering and reporting

Citrix

Having worked with customers for many years deploying Citrix App Layering, I know additional reporting features are in high demand. I have worked on several ways to produce custom reports that I will walk through in this blog post. I … The post Citrix App Layering and reporting first appeared on Citrix Blogs. Related Stories Why the future of retail must be built on digital foundations 5 new ways Citrix and Google are simplifying your cloud transition The Click-Down: Managed DaaS.

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Improve IT Operations with Response Analytics

everbridge

Your IT team just finished resolving a complex incident, customer service finished their last call about the issue, and your business is back to being fully operational. Now that the storm has passed, you should be planning a postmortem to determine the cause of the incident and lessons learned. Postmortems require specific data that can highlight where your team is succeeding and where they can improve.

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What to Expect of the Russian Assault

Disaster Zone

This could be decisive, or not.

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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

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Reopening Old Wounds: Two Stories, One Lesson

The Rand Blog

The shocking events unfolding in Ukraine serve as a vivid reminder to two RAND researchers of the profoundly human consequences tied to the strategic level of decisionmaking they study and weigh in on each day.

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Get more out of your native Azure Virtual Desktop with the Citrix Optimization Pack

Citrix

The Citrix Optimization Pack for Azure Virtual Desktop is a new Citrix offering for optimizing native Azure Virtual Desktop workloads. It includes Workspace Environment Management (WEM) service within Citrix Cloud as the primary offering, which you can use to better … The post Get more out of your native Azure Virtual Desktop with the Citrix Optimization Pack first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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Announcing Fibre Channel Advancements in FlashArray

Pure Storage

Fibre Channel has a long history in the enterprise storage market, and yet it’s continually being enhanced to better accommodate the needs of the enterprise. Pure Storage is excited to introduce several new standards-based features in our Fibre Channel offering. 64GFC Fibre Channel Support. With the 6.3.0 Purity release, Pure will support 64GFC Fibre Channel on FlashArray//XL arrays, doubling the maximum Fibre Channel port data rate to 6,400 megabytes per second.

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Ukraine: What is the Difference Between a Rocket and a Missile

Disaster Zone

One is guided, one is not.

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Iran: Challenges and Successes in COVID-19 Pandemic Response

The Rand Blog

Iran has faced an uphill battle since the first cases of COVID-19 were found in the country. Despite limited resources, Iran has also had its share of successes and innovations in combating the virus. A RAND study identified several of these common challenges, successes, and innovations.