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Book Review: The Invention of Disaster

Recovery Diva

Book Review: The Invention of Disaster: Power of Knowledge in Discourses of Hazard and Vulnerability. The book is part of Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change. The book is organized according to 11 chapters, each as an attempt to explain further the above issues as well as additional arguments.

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Book Review: Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management

Recovery Diva

More than twenty authors are represented in this timely book, edited by Alessandra Jerolleman and William L. Waugh is editor in chief of the Emerald Book Series, “Community, Environment and Disaster Reduction Management,” of which this book is Volume 25. reviewed in Recovery Diva March 29, 2019 ].

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Toil: Still Plaguing Engineering Teams by Damon Edwards

PagerDuty

Interest in the topic of SRE has skyrocketed since Google published their Site Reliability Engineering book. semi-manual deployments, schema updates/rollbacks, changing storage quotas, network changes, user adds, adding capacity, DNS changes, service failover). This capacity requirement is why toil is such a central concept for SRE.

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Non-disruptive Workload Mobility with ActiveWorkload

Pure Storage

To add to it, the first //C you bought is also struggling at nearly 95% used capacity, while the new //C is hardly being used. Think of ActiveWorkload as a tesseract from the book A Wrinkle in Time. The //XL, in contrast, is hardly having to work. Retire that, move this, consolidate this other stuff…you get the idea.

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How Automation Can Evolve (and Improve) the Role of DBA

Pure Storage

Not surprisingly, many organizations are looking to implement AI in IT and data scenarios, where there’s an alluring promise to increase capacity and productivity—without increasing headcount. Take Pure1, a tool that leverages AI, machine learning, and predictive analytics to automate capacity planning and proactively monitor for issues.

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Data Growth and Environmental Sustainability

Pure Storage

Unstructured data is growing at an exponential rate, propelling the need for more storage capacity. For example, FlashArray//C is optimized to help organizations, including those with enormous capacity needs, reduce their footprint. Energy Consumption Is Rising.

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Tech Insider: AI School

Security Industry Association

Many of the typical high school classes that at least I grew up with are no longer there, or at least not in the capacity that I remembered. Great, I learned about the Roman Empire, did a book report on The Great Gatsby and dissected a frog. Many may be familiar with STEM schools and programs, but nothing this unique.