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School Security & Active Shooter Interdiction: A Q&A With Vince Riden

Security Industry Association

It’s important to promote a safe learning environment for every student and protect the teachers, staff and visitors in our schools, and SIA appreciates the many talented security professionals who are working diligently each day to enhance the safety and security of our schools and mitigate active shooter threats.

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Introduction to Polars

Advancing Analytics

It offers strict memory safety without garbage collection (addressing a major issue with C and C++), making it ideal for high-performance applications. In the benchmark tests conducted by H2O.ai , Polars demonstrated superior performance on aggregation tasks by completing the 50GB dataset aggregation in just 143 seconds.

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SSD vs. HDD Speeds: What’s the Difference?

Pure Storage

Even with the higher speed capacity, an SSD has its disadvantages over an HDD, depending on your application. To determine the actual difference in speed, you’ll need to download benchmarking tools. How to Benchmark SSD vs. HDD. Storage devices are benchmarked using read and write actions. Does SSD Read Faster than HDD?

Benchmark 105
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IOPS vs. Throughput: Why Both Matter

Pure Storage

It’s a standard performance benchmark for solid-state drives, hard drives, flash drives, and network attached storage (NAS) devices. Equally important is to look at throughput (units of data per second)—how data is actually delivered to the arrays in support of real-world application performance. So in short, you should use both.

Benchmark 104
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Improve Open Source Database Operations with AWS Outposts by 4x

Pure Storage

An AWS Outpost can utilize block storage, such as Pure Storage® FlashArray//X or FlashArray//C for application data through iSCSI connectivity. We put the integration to the test to understand some performance characteristics of the solution for critical database applications. Storage that suits a range of application requirements. .

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Hot Work: More than Welding, Cutting, and Burning

National Fire Protection Association

This can include activities such as welding, cutting, brazing, soldering, grinding, and other similar processes that generate heat and sparks. This can occur through direct application with flames or sparks from welding, cutting, and burning. What is hot work? Lastly, the ignition source is as simple as the hot work itself.

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Five ways to improve campus safety and security

everbridge

Especially because “ K-12 schools and higher education institutions are the second most common location, after businesses, for active shooter incidents in the U.S. Gain valuable insights from nearly 800 security professionals on key initiatives and actionable recommendations inside the Everbridge 2023 Active Shooter Preparedness Report.