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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. Publisher : Routledge by Taylor and Francis Group London and New York. Labeling certain groups as vulnerable justifies the intervention of outside actors (i.e. Series Editor: Ilan Kelman. For more information: [link].

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All-flash Arrays vs. Hard Disk Drives: 5 Myths About HDDs

Pure Storage

Research from Enterprise Strategy Group indicates that data capacity will grow tenfold by 2030, which means there’s never been a better time to ditch spinning disk and make the switch to an all-flash data center. All-flash Arrays vs. Hard Disk Drives: 5 Myths About HDDs by Pure Storage Blog It’s no secret data growth is on the rise.

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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. And do something to make our nation and the world less vulnerable.

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BCM Trends for 2020

Stratogrid Advisory

Readers Note: This article was originally published in December of 2019 and before unprecedented COVID-19 Pandemic of 2020. Making matters worse is the fact that this sensitive information is usually shared in some capacity with other entities that may not employ adequate cyber protection. BCM Trends for 2020! Reading Time: 4 minutes.

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

While not independent of the magnitude of physical forces involved, it is not linearly related to them because it depends on the nature and size of the vulnerabilities that the physical forces act upon. University College London Press, London, and Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 632 pp. References Alexander, D.E. Natural Disasters.

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Securing Mass Gathering Events: A Simple Design Framework That Considers the Air Domain

Security Industry Association

Like security program development, planning for an event is a “team sport” that begins with the foundational work of a threat, vulnerability and risk assessment (TVRA) and ends with internal and external stakeholder rehearsals and exercises. Duties, responsibilities, capability, and capacity. Rest assured it will.

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Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

At the same time, we see widening inequalities in who has access to recovery resources, and disparities in vulnerability that are too often predictable by socioeconomic status, race and ethnicity. In an era of threats and vulnerabilities that are increasing in complexity we need to simplify the process. For all other bills (i.e.