Fri.Aug 20, 2021

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FEMA Launches Full National Risk Index for Emergency Assessment and Planning

DRI Drive

After a preliminary rollout, FEMA has unveiled its fully operational tool to help organizations and communities analyze their biggest risks to help them better prepare. FEMA’s U.S. National Risk Index was initially introduced in Nov. 2020 on a limited basis. Now it has launched the full application for users. It’s an online mapping resource that […].

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New HashiCorp Terraform Alliance Eases Cloud Automation

Pure Storage

I’m excited to announce that we have an official technology partnership with HashiCorp. This partnership allows Pure Storage to have our Terraform integrations validated and enables us to regularly enhance and provide jointly validated solutions. The Pure Cloud Block Store Provider for Terraform allows customers to automate the deployment of Pure Cloud Block Store ™ (CBS) in both Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure.

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Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

Emergency Planning

Some years ago I met a 31-year-old Bulgarian policeman whose main claim to fame was that he had been the Chief of Police for the Republic of Haiti for 20 minutes, or in other words until someone more senior arrived from Port-au-Prince airport. This was in 2010, shortly after Haiti had been prostrated by a magnitude 7 earthquake. Nobody knows how many casualties there were in that disaster: perhaps 240,000 dead and 300,000 injured.