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Operational Resilience for Financial Services: The View from APAC

Pure Storage

Operational Resilience for Financial Services: The View from APAC by Pure Storage Blog Across the globe, regulators and business leaders in financial services are increasingly paying attention to the area of operational resilience (OR).

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The Beginnings of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP)

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

Shortly after the 9/11 attacks and the anthrax exposures, centers throughout the United States were set up to prepare for and make our nation more resilient.

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A level of Safety – NFPA Fire & Life Safety Ecosystem

National Fire Protection Association

There are many examples of major fires in non-sprinklered or partially sprinklered high-rise buildings including the One Meridian Plaza fire (1991), the Cook County Administration Building fire in Chicago (2003), the Marco Polo Apartment Building Fire in Hawaii (2017) and the Twin Parks Northwest fire in New York City (2022).

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NCDP 20th Anniversary Reflections and Impacts

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

Shortly after the 9/11 attacks and the anthrax exposures, centers throughout the United States were set up to prepare for and make our nation more resilient.

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Coronavirus and China’s Decision-Making in a Crisis

Marketpoint Recall

By February 10, the number of infections had surpassed 40,000, with over 900 deaths , superseding the 2002-2003 SARS outbreak in sheer numbers. This trade-off can be seen in several non-military crises such as the 2002-2003 SARs virus outbreak.

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Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

Expansion of pre-disaster mitigation funding such as through the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program, and new funding for infrastructure resilience embedded in the bi-partisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act are also steps in the right direction. 90 programs across 20 agencies is simply too many.

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Dell’s Mid-Range PowerStore Conundrum 

Pure Storage

Later generations of Symmetrix were even bigger and supported more drives with more capacity, more data features, and better resiliency. . Other vendors brought storage products to market touting “enterprise class” with better features and resiliency. HP even shot its array with a.308