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Ep. 07: Spotlight on Business Continuity Programs in Healthcare | James Mitchell

The Failover Plan Podcast

Episode Summary: This week, Shane interviews James Mitchell- the Director of Organizational Resilience at the 724-bed Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, TX. The last few months he has been heavily involved with a historic pandemic response at Texas Children’s which involved a 140+ day activation of their incident command system.

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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Emergency Planning

Several arguments can be marshalled against the idea of community resilience:- The concept of 'community' has no inherent geographical scale. The struggle to create community resilience pits organised collective action against individualism. But how does this translate into community resilience?

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The Vancouver #SaltCrisis 2017

CCEM Strategies

Know your business Determine the core processes and procedures of your business activities. And if you enhance it, then your business becomes more resilient and more prepared! So, how can we be better prepared? Know your business. Know your risks. Know your plan. Understanding it can only enhance it.

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The Storage Architecture Spectrum: Why “Shared-nothing” Means Nothing

Pure Storage

Yet these two systems couldn’t be farther from each other on the spectrum of complexity, resiliency, and capability, and very few would question the scalability of Cloud Spanner. And while all front-end ports on a FlashArray system are active, only one controller is actively processing IO at any given time.

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TSPs: Making the Case to Invest in Risk and Resiliency

Fusion Risk Management

There are even emerging regulatory requirements on the horizon such as the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) that will extend regulatory reach to some technology and data service providers. Investing in Risk and Resiliency is the Right Thing to Do. percentage points from January 2017 to January 2022.”

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Uncovering Dell EMC’s PowerStore B.S. (Bogus Statements)

Pure Storage

OK, how about some other areas where we can see differentiation from previous models, such as in data resiliency? What is also interesting is that Unity XT calls RAID “dynamic pools,” where PowerStore calls it “Dynamic Resiliency Engine.” Item #3: “ Active/Active Controller Architecture”¹⁴ Is a Good Thing We see this B.S.

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Dynamic Risks: Working Definitions and Implications for Risk Management Teams

On Solve

While leading resilience practitioners currently consider some aspects of dynamic risks in their programs, we recommend that these concepts be threaded throughout the design and management of all resilience programs in order to achieve the best possible outcome from every incident. Dynamic Risks: A Working Definition. Dynamic Risk.