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Disaster Response and Equity: Reflecting on the Racial Disparities in Texas Power Outages

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

This February marked two years since Texans were hit with widespread power outages during the deep freeze of 2021. The state’s energy supply chain was unable to withstand the sustained low temperatures, as generation resources were strained due to cold weather tripping units, natural gas supply curtailments, and wind power generation outages.

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If There Was Ever A Time To Prepare, The Time Is Now!

Disaster Preparedness

I don't believe that a complete outage will occur, but the future may hold that we see rolling or purposeful blackouts in some areas. First, the 2020 election has been contentious, to say the least. No matter where you see yourself falling in response to the 2020 Election one thing remains true. Political Contention.

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Five Organizations Tackling Health Inequity: Meet PagerDuty.org’s Second Impact Accelerator Cohort by Olivia Khalili

PagerDuty

Nexleaf and PagerDuty began our partnership in 2020 to pilot automated power outage alerts to hospital workers and administrators in eight health facilities across Kenya. This simple use case for power outage data has already proven useful to health workers for preventing deadly power outages and improving backup generator management.

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Five Organizations Tackling Health Inequity: Meet PagerDuty.org’s Second Impact Accelerator Cohort by Olivia Khalili

PagerDuty

Nexleaf and PagerDuty began our partnership in 2020 to pilot automated power outage alerts to hospital workers and administrators in eight health facilities across Kenya. This simple use case for power outage data has already proven useful to health workers for preventing deadly power outages and improving backup generator management.

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Does the cloud, alone, meet 3-2-1?

OffsiteDataSync

According to the Veeam 2021 Data Protection Report , the percentage of data protected by traditional, self-managed on-premises systems fell from 40% in 2020 to 34% in 2021. Meanwhile, self-managed cloud-based backup is growing, from 30% in 2020 to 35% by 2023. In 2020, 29% of data was protected this way.

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Continuity Christmas Cleanup

Alternative Resiliency Services Corp

Organizations are putting a bookmark to 2019 and preparing for 2020. ​Here are two high-value low-investment end-of-year activities to keep your Business Continuity programs on track and ready to face the unexpected in 2020! Exercises Winter presents significant potential for business interruptions and outages.

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Modern Enterprise Data Protection: A How-To Guide

Pure Storage

According to the FBI’s 2020 Internet Crime Report , the Internet Crime Complaint Center received 791,790 cybercrime complaints in 2020, with reported losses exceeding $4.2 Data center outages come in many forms and often occur at the most unfortunate of times.