Mon.Jun 27, 2022

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Environmental Racism: How Historic Redlining Continues to Affect Communities

The Rand Blog

Starting in the 1930s, neighborhoods across America were redlined—marked on government maps as too hazardous, as in, too Black or too immigrant, for federal home loans. When zoning officials needed somewhere to put a new factory or freeway, those redlined neighborhoods were like a bullseye that they hit again and again.

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Your first steps to closing the cybersecurity talent gap

Acronis

According to the 2021 (ISC)2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study, while the cybersecurity workforce gap is closing globally, it is growing in North America. As of June, 2022, over 400,000 cybersecurity professionals are needed in this region. Read on to learn more about the reasons behind IT talent shortages and suggestions on how to close the gap.

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Ahead of the holiday weekend, NFPA offers tips to stay safe in short-term rentals, hotels, and elsewhere

National Fire Protection Association

This Fourth of July weekend, nearly 48 million Americans are expected to travel, according to the American Automobile Association (AAA). Many of those travelers will forgo traditional lodging in a hotel and opt for something more unique—perhaps a beach house, an urban apartment unit, or a remote cabin on the lake. Over the past several years, companies like Airbnb and VRBO have grown in. [[ This is a content summary only.

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FlashBlade//S and Evergreen: Future-proofing the Next Decade and Beyond

Pure Storage

Back in February, Rob Lee, CTO, Pure Storage, wrote about Why FlashBlade Is Truly Evergreen , and with our recent announcements around FlashBlade//S ® , it should be clear why building storage platforms designed for sustainability and scalability is so critical to our customers. Like the Ship of Theseus , Pure Storage designs storage arrays and software to be upgradable and scaled non-disruptively, and FlashBlade//S is no exception.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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SIA New Member Profile: Metrasens

Security Industry Association

New Security Industry Association (SIA) member Metrasens offers leading advanced magnetic detection technologies. The company is headquartered in the United Kingdom, providing production and research and development as well as servicing the Europe, Middle East and Africa and Asia-Pacific geographic markets with distribution, sales and service. The United States operational hub is in Illinois outside of Chicago, providing regional distribution, sales and service for North America. .

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10 reasons to try Citrix DaaS Standard for Azure

Citrix

Organizations today are looking for a simple way to deliver apps and desktops on demand, from the cloud, with simplified management and a strong layer of security to keep data safe and off the device. We’ve designed Citrix DaaS Standard … The post 10 reasons to try Citrix DaaS Standard for Azure first appeared on Citrix Blogs. Related Stories Background blur and effects for optimized Microsoft Teams now in preview Citrix DaaS expands capabilities with support for Azure AD and non-domain-jo

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Compass 2022 Key Takeaways: Charting a New Course for Operational Resilience

Fusion Risk Management

Compass Customer Summit Series. Just like a compass helps chart a course, create a roadmap, and deliver you to your destination, Fusion assists our customers on the path to a robust, connected resilience capability. The need for an operational resilience sherpa was front and center at Fusion’s recent annual customer summit, Compass 2022. Fusion reimagined our annual global customer summit as regional one-day summits, meeting our customers where they are.

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Adaptation or Extinction. How’s Your Storage Vendor Doing?

Pure Storage

The greatest existential threat is the lack of adaptation. Once upon a time, giant apes roamed Southeast Asia. Believed to have stood 10 feet tall and weighed around 1,000 pounds, Gigantopithecus is gone now. Scientists suspect that as their habitat changed, they didn’t adapt to their new environment. Today, we still see the proverbial 800-pound gorillas — a legacy storage vendor.

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Considering robotic process automation to enhance your business resilience? Here are some key considerations

Plan B Consulting

Robotic process automation can bring resilience advantages to mission-critical IT and business processes but its introduction requires wider business planning. Here Ravi Dirckze looks at key considerations on the path to effective business automation. Embracing robotic process automation (RPA) can have a significant positive impact on any business, streamlining time-consuming manual processes and greatly reducing the burden on employees, leading to great operational efficiency across the board a

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Is Training the Right Solution?

Speaker: Tim Buteyn

Let's set the scene: you’ve identified a critical performance gap in your organization and need to close that gap. A colleague suggests training, but you suspect there’s something going on that training can’t address. How can you determine if training is the right solution before you commit your budget and resources to a new training program? In this webinar, you will learn how to determine if training is the right solution using the Behavior Engineering Model.

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S5cmd Hits v1.0 and Intro to Advanced Usage

Pure Storage

This blog originally appeared on Medium. com and has been republished with permission from ths author. . Object storage usage continues to broaden and move into applications and analytics that demand high performance. These use-cases also necessitate utilities to drive performance, both for working with object storage and benchmarking performance limits.

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A Presto Data Pipeline with S3

Pure Storage

This blog originally appeared on Medium.com and has been republished with permission from ths author. . This post presents a modern data warehouse implemented with Presto and FlashBlade S3; using Presto to ingest data and then transform it to a queryable data warehouse. A common first step in a data-driven project makes available large data streams for reporting and alerting with a SQL data warehouse.

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