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Pending Legislation

Recovery Diva

From HStoday: Legislation to Help At-Risk Communities Invest in Disaster Mitigation Projects Advances in Senate. The bill would require FEMA to use data from the NRI, or a similar tool, to establish community disaster resilience zones.

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Cyber Protection Week 2022: The need (and demand) for integration grows

Acronis

With the release of this year’s Acronis Cyber Protection Week Report, IT users and professionals from around the globe show overconfidence, more experience suffering from data loss and a greater need for integrated cyber protection solutions.

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Making Environmental Stewardship a Priority for Business

BMC

Every April, we celebrate Earth Day, and this year, BMC is taking it a step further with a whole month of activities for our inaugural Climate Action Month. And we’re not alone. More and more companies are doubling down on sustainability by putting their money and muscle behind it. How much money? How about $120 trillion? That’s the size of the asset portfolio managed by investors who have committed to focus on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations when investing by si

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Visual Inspection of Sprinklers

National Fire Protection Association

NFPA 25, Standard for the Inspection, Testing, and Maintenance of Water-Based Fire Protection Systems provides the criteria for the routine activities that must be conducted to ensure that water-based fire protection systems, such as automatic sprinklers systems, can be relied upon in the event of a fire. These activities range from simple visual confirmation of some things such as valve position. [[ This is a content summary only.

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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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Making Environmental Stewardship a Priority for Business

BMC

Every April, we celebrate Earth Day, and this year, BMC is taking it a step further with a whole month of activities for our inaugural Climate Action Month. And we’re not alone. More and more companies are doubling down on sustainability by putting their money and muscle behind it. How much money? How about $120 trillion? That’s the size of the asset portfolio managed by investors who have committed to focus on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations when investing by si

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The Everbridge Contribution to Research on Societal Resilience

everbridge

The issue of societal resilience became tangible a couple of years ago during the global COVID pandemic and its importance is screaming to the world today with the Ukrainian conflict. What capacity to react and respond to extreme events do societies have? How can their resilience be leveraged, integrated in the safety and mitigation efforts of public and private organizations?

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Plan B: As the Recovery Plan Fades, What Will Take Its Place? 

BCM METRICS

The recovery plan has been the cornerstone of business continuity management (BCM) from the beginning, but its relevance is on the wane. I’ve been thinking a lot about what should take its place. I was glad to speak at Disaster Recovery Journal’s Spring Conference in Orlando earlier this month, DRJ’s first live conference in two […]. The post Plan B: As the Recovery Plan Fades, What Will Take Its Place?

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How to Improve Quality of Life in Greater Cambridge: The Perspective of Local Organisational and Community Leaders

The Rand Blog

The Cambridge, UK, area performs well in different dimensions of quality of life. However real-life experience differs significantly across communities and across measurements.

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The 4 Stages of a Crisis and How to Navigate Them

Alert Media

The post The 4 Stages of a Crisis and How to Navigate Them appeared first on AlertMedia.

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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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MySQL vs. PostgreSQL

Pure Storage

If you need a relational database for your application, two potential candidates for efficient storage and fast transactions are MySQL and PostgreSQL. MySQL has been around since the 1990s, so it’s often the first preference for many developers, but PostgreSQL has several features that make it a competitive alternative. Before you decide on a database for your application, here are some distinct differences between the two database platforms to help you choose the best one for your project.

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World Backup Day: Four Data Protection Best Practices to Know

Solutions Review

This is part of Solutions Review’s Premium Content Series, a collection of contributed columns written by industry experts in maturing software categories. In this submission, Pure Storage CTO Andy Stone offers for data protection best practices to know for World Backup Day. Cybersecurity sentiment has shifted dramatically – in fact, Gartner recently noted that 88 percent of board of directors now acknowledge that cybersecurity is a key business risk rather than simply just an IT problem, a 58 p

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World Backup Day: The MSP Uptime Lifeline

OffsiteDataSync

World Backup Day was first introduced in 2011. Only a year earlier, Google, Microsoft and Amazon launched their cloud services. It was a time when most IT functions were still overseen by technology generalists, including the now mission-critical task of backing up data. It was easy enough back then; IT just had to backup to tape at night, keep a copy or two around for a month and send another offsite for archival storage.

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Is Backup Dead? It’s the End of Backup and the Dawn of a New Era

Solutions Review

This is part of Solutions Review’s Premium Content Series, a collection of contributed columns written by industry experts in maturing software categories. In this submission, CTERA CTO Aron Brand argues that today’s backup solutions are built on outdated standards which stop work in its tracks. Solutions Review editors then pose the question: is backup dead?

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

We’ve all been there. You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out.

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How Small Issues Can Lead to Big Consequences

Business Resilience Decoded

Episode 99: How Small Issues Can Lead to Big Consequences with Kevin Kupietz This episode is brought to you by Fusion Risk Management, Building a More Resilient World Together. Request a demo at [link] today! As emergency managers and leaders in the business resilience industry, we have seen a lot of incidents where seemingly small incidents or decisions led to huge consequences.

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How Small Issues Can Lead to Big Consequences

Business Resilience Decoded

Episode 99: How Small Issues Can Lead to Big Consequences with Kevin Kupietz This episode is brought to you by Fusion Risk Management, Building a More Resilient World Together. Request a demo at [link] today! As emergency managers and leaders in the business resilience industry, we have seen a lot of incidents where seemingly small incidents or decisions led to huge consequences.

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How Small Issues Can Lead to Big Consequences

Business Resilience Decoded

Episode 99: How Small Issues Can Lead to Big Consequences with Kevin Kupietz This episode is brought to you by Fusion Risk Management, Building a More Resilient World Together. Request a demo at [link] today! As emergency managers and leaders in the business resilience industry, we have seen a lot of incidents where seemingly small incidents or decisions led to huge consequences.