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Reflections on the Turkish-Syrian Earthquakes of 6th February 2023: Building Collapse and its Consequences

Emergency Planning

It is a mixture of simple errors, lax procedures, ignorance, deliberate evasion, indifference to public safety, untenable architectural fashions, corruption and failure to enforce the codes. Many of the news media that have reported the disaster have presented it as the result of inescapable terrestrial forces. Mosalam 2003.

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Dell’s Mid-Range PowerStore Conundrum 

Pure Storage

Then, in 2003, VMware released server virtualization with an awesome feature called “ VMotion ” that improved resiliency and flexibility. Pure FlashArray//X uses a scale-up storage architecture that allows a simpler and more flexible upgrade path. PowerMax: So should you look to Dell PowerMax for true “scale-out” architecture?