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Hot Work: More than Welding, Cutting, and Burning

National Fire Protection Association

This can occur through direct application with flames or sparks from welding, cutting, and burning. Ignition can also occur through indirect application where heat is radiated through the air or conducted through metal surfaces to fuel sources nearby. If not monitored properly, the hot work could create enough heat to ignite that item.

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6 Signs Your Business Needs a vCIO

NexusTek

A vCIO can provide smaller businesses with the expertise needed to evaluate their cloud readiness and then plan an organized migration to the cloud. A vCIO can assist with benchmarking as well as with understanding how various IT spend categories serve your long-term interests (e.g.,

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Security Industry Association Applauds Passage of Chips Bill

Security Industry Association

Testing, Evaluation and Standards. These activities are critical to establishing benchmarks developers need to continue to improve technologies both for government and commercial use. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) and Deb Fischer (R-Neb.). The authorization additionally included two key provisions supported by SIA.

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Digital Twins and the Future of Physical Security and Risk Management

Security Industry Association

Today’s technology advances, such as cloud computing, deep learning and IoT, enable the application of enterprise data to mitigate risks and accurately and efficiently manage facilities’ security systems. Leveraging data is critical for efficiency, performance and savings in security system design and operations.

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Why Crisis Management Preparedness Matters

everbridge

To evaluate your company’s crisis management preparedness, it helps to know what preparedness involves, as well as its place in the lifecycle of a crisis, which consists of three stages: preparation, response, and recovery. Is your business adequately prepared? SCHEDULE A DEMO. What Is Crisis Management Preparedness? Watch Video.

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7 Habits of Successful Generative AI Adopters by Dormain Drewitz

PagerDuty

Smaller, more industry- or business-focused language models can often provide better results tailored to business needs and have lower latency, especially for real-time applications.” Similarly, the accuracy of generative AI is only one factor to evaluate. . “For example, large language models like GPT 3.5

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How to Benchmark MySQL Performance

Pure Storage

Using database benchmarking can assist in both managing the expectation of how a system will perform under a specific load and identifying any problems before they affect business operations. MySQL benchmark tools. Sysbench – Provides scriptable and multithreaded benchmarking capabilities for Linux.