Wed.May 25, 2022

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Is the UK Putting COVID-19 in the Rear View Too Early?

DRI Drive

A recent survey of the United Kingdom’s financial sector sees pandemic response dropping in its risk ranking – are they ignoring indicators that we’re not done with the pandemic yet? The Bank of England’s 2022 H1 Systemic Risk Survey asked the UK financial sector how confident they are in the financial system and which risks […]. The post Is the UK Putting COVID-19 in the Rear View Too Early?

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High Tech Tools for Hurricane Predication

Recovery Diva

From Inside Climate News: Forecasters Tap High-Tech Tools as US Warns of Another Unusually Active Hurricane Season. Predictions of hurricane paths have improved markedly, but their intensity remains difficult to forecast. Air and water drones could change that.

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Drones Supporting the Delivery of Medical Supplies

Disaster Zone

Another example for what is happening elsewhere.

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A Four Day Week: Is America Ready?

The Rand Blog

As alluring as a calendar filled with three-day weekends may seem, research shows that short school weeks can have educational and health risks for students, but also benefits for them and for school districts that make the change. Do the benefits of the condensed week outweigh the costs?

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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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The Great Resignation and IT Employees: Where Do Things Stand Today?

NexusTek

READ TIME: 5 MIN. May 25, 2022. The Great Resignation and IT Employees: Where Do Things Stand Today? April 2021 marked the onset of the Great Resignation when a record-setting 3.99 million U.S. workers voluntarily left their jobs 1. Over a year later, many are wondering about the status of the Great Resignation. Is it over yet? Still continuing? We were interested in these questions as well—especially as they apply to IT employees—and the following is an overview of the situation we face today.

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New NFPA research reports Shine a Spotlight on Fatal and Non-Fatal Electrical Injuries at work – Just in Time for National Electrical Safety Month

National Fire Protection Association

Each May, NFPA actively supports National Electrical Safety Month, a campaign sponsored by Electrical Safety Foundation International (ESFI), which raises awareness of potential home electrical hazards, the importance of electrical fire safety, and the safety of all electrical and non-electrical workers. As a step towards this end, NFPA recently published two reports using data from the Bureau. [[ This is a content summary only.

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Exciting new features available in Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud 22.05

Acronis

Acronis has announced some exciting new enhancements to Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud 22.05 that will help managed service providers (MSPs) deliver even better service and value to their clients. Read on for a synopsis of these great new features.

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The Hunger Games, virtual reality, and innovative tech are converging at the NFPA Conference & Expo® this June

National Fire Protection Association

What do the Hunger Games, virtual reality, and other innovative technologies have in common? Their application to fire and life safety at the 2022 NFPA Conference & Expo®, of course! Following is a sampling of educational sessions and other special events at this June’s conference, from those that highlight innovative technologies impacting fire and life safety to a presentation that uses. [[ This is a content summary only.

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A Message to Our Members

Security Industry Association

Dear SIA Members, As an organization dedicated to making our private and public places safer, the Security Industry Association (SIA) is devastated by the news of the violence that took place yesterday at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. On behalf of SIA, I would like to extend our deepest condolences, concern and sympathy to the families who lost loved ones and to the community as it mourns this unthinkable tragedy.

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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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Opening the eyes of the machine: Computer vision with AutoML (Part 2)

Advancing Analytics

By Gavita Regunath and Dan Lantos Do you want to get started with computer vision but do not really know where to start? Or would you like to quickly get an idea as to which state-of-the-art (SoTA) computer vision model is best for your task? If you are, then this article will give you a good starting point to jumpstart your computer vision journey.

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When incident response requires business response, who should you notify? by Hannah Culver

PagerDuty

From a single on-call engineer hopping online to resolve a problem, to a massive cross-team effort that brings in even the most senior technical leadership (CTO, CISO, or CIO), incident response teams are lucky when they’re able to resolve issues before a customer is aware. But in the cases where there is customer impact, other stakeholders like sales and customer service need to be informed and updated as well. .

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Model Deployment Options in Azure

Advancing Analytics

There are so many options to deploy models in Azure that is can get quite overwhelming. In this blog, we break down all the available options and consider the pros and cons of each tooling option. Azure Machine Learning. Azure Machine Learning is a native Azure cloud offering for accelerating and managing ML projects. It offers a Studio GUI for drag and drop ml workflows and a Python SDK for more complex, code-based ml workflows.

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FlashBlade Network Plumbing Validation

Pure Storage

This article originally appeared on Medium.com. It has been republished with permission from the author. Did you spend a few hours trying to debug why Apache Spark on FlashBlade ? is slower than expected, only to realize you have an underlying networking issue? Flashblade-plumbing is a tool to validate NFS and S3 read/write performance from a single client to a FlashBlade array with minimal dependencies and input required.

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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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Meet the Unique Needs of Financial Services with Bare Metal

Pure Storage

Financial services firms are rapidly adopting public cloud services because they recognize the potential for greater flexibility, scalability, cost management, and security than their existing solutions can offer. However, there can be significant limitations to cloud solutions, forcing prospective customers to make trade-offs in terms of performance, tenancy, and innovation. .

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Spark’s Missing Parallelism: Loading Large Datasets

Pure Storage

Apache Spark is a powerful tool for parallel processing of many data types. But for users with datasets with high file counts, there is one notable exception to the parallelism: the enumeration of datasets. This enumeration happens when a dataset is first loaded from persistent storage; if that enumeration is painfully slow, then it can easily become the slowest part of an analytics job.