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NCDP 20th Anniversary Reflections and Impacts

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

In 2003, the National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP), Columbia University, was founded to provide an academically based, interdisciplinary center focused on the capacity to prevent, respond to, and recover from disasters. I look forward to seeing what part the NCDP plays in and creates for the next twenty years and beyond. _

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

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

In 2003, the National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP), Columbia University, was founded to provide an academically based, interdisciplinary center focused on the capacity to prevent, respond to, and recover from disasters. By NCDP Founding Director, Senior Advisor, Dr.

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Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

The severity, the disruptions, the politicization of the response, the inequities, and the pandemics persistence were all predicted in various reports, studies and historical records of prior pandemics.

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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. . Then, in 2003, VMware released server virtualization with an awesome feature called “ VMotion ” that improved resiliency and flexibility. HP even shot its array with a.308