Bernstein Crisis Management

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Why Crisis Management Planning Should Be On Your To-Do List In a competitive market regularly impacted by events which disrupt the ability to operate, a volatile social climate, and rapidly shifting consumer expectations, what separates businesses that thrive and those that struggle is often their preparedness for crises. Crisis management planning is the strategic process of preparing for situations can threaten to interrupt reputation, operations, or the financial bottom line.

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DRI Drive

DECEMBER 1, 2023

WASHINGTON – Yesterday, FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell announced the appointment of 12 new members and two returning members to the agency’s National Advisory Council. This year, Carrie Speranza, director of Esri’s Emergency Management Solutions, is the new National Advisory Council Chair. Speranza previously served as vice chair alongside outgoing Chair Jeff Hansen, director of the Office […] The post FEMA Appoints First Female National Advisory Council Chair, Welcomes New Natio

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Recovery Diva

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Planning Considerations for Cyber Incidents; Guidance for Emergency Managers. (57 pp).November 2023. The purpose of the document follows: Emergency management personnel play a central role in preparing for and responding to cyber incidents in their jurisdictions. Although emergency managers are not expected to be technical experts on cyber incidents, they do need to understand and prepare for the potential impacts of a cyber incident on their communities as well as on their emergency operations.

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Disaster Zone

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Many a crisis has gone worse due to the public relations response.

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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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Pure Storage

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Pure Storage and Veeam Partner for Unrivaled Data Protection with Unbeatable Economics by Pure Storage Blog In today’s data-driven world, there’s nothing more important than safeguarding critical information. Now, the partnership between Pure Storage and Veeam has sparked a new era in unrivaled data protection, offering unparalleled security to prevent data loss, minimal downtime during disruptions, and accelerated recovery so you can get back to business faster than ever.

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Recovery Diva

DECEMBER 1, 2023

From CU Boulder today: Putting research to work: FEMA administrator visits CU to strengthen academic partnerships. Nice tribute to one of the oldest disaster research centers. An excerpt: “Among the research topics that could support the agency’s resilience goals are work related to climate migration, risk communication and refining social vulnerability indices.

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Disaster Zone

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Close calls, but no major crashes.

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Pure Storage

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Lifecycle Management of Azure VMware Solution with Pure Cloud Block Store by Pure Storage Blog In our previous blog about Azure VMware Solution (AVS) and Pure Cloud Block Store ™ , we covered how to initialize the integration between an AVS private cloud cluster and Pure Cloud Block Store array. This blog focuses on the integration lifecycle management of AVS hosts, by leveraging Azure native resources to continuously monitor and automate the configured state of the storage provisioned.

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Solutions Review

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of December 1, 2023. Keeping tabs on all the most relevant storage and data protection news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines from the last week, in this space.

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Backup Cyber Resilience Disaster Recovery Evaluation 104

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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Recovery Diva

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

FEMA has published Achieving Equitable Recovery: A Post-Disaster Guide for Local Officials and Leaders , a first of its kind framework to help rebuild communities in a more accessible, inclusive and equitable manner. (144 pp). November 2023. This document provides guidance for local leaders and officials to understand, prepare for and execute their leadership responsibilities to promote equity, create accountability, establish an inclusive recovery planning process and recover from disasters whi

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Security Industry Association

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Each year, the SIA WISF Power 100 program showcases 100 women who are role models, leaders, innovators and influencers in the global security industry. SILVER SPRING, Md. – The Security Industry Association (SIA) has opened the call for nominations for the 2024 SIA Women in Security Forum (WISF) Power 100. Now in its third year, this annual initiative, presented by the SIA Women in Security Forum , honors 100 women in the security industry whose outstanding accomplishments and success stories ar

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Pure Storage

DECEMBER 1, 2023

How to Build a LangChain Chatbot Pt. 2: Similarity Searching a Vectorstore from FlashBlade S3 by Pure Storage Blog In Part 1 of this series, we leveraged LangChain’s built-in capabilities to load in data from a FlashBlade ® S3 bucket and reviewed various settings to optimize throughput performance. In this article, we’ll review the next steps of taking the data residing on FlashBlade, chunking it up, embedding it, loading a vectorstore, persisting it to storage for easy future retrievals, and de

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BryghtPath

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Navigate the complexities of cross-cultural crisis strategies. Learn how they impact global business success through real-world examples and trends. The post Cross-Cultural Crisis Strategies: A Guide for Success appeared first on Bryghtpath.

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Crisis Management Management 96

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.

KingsBridge BCP

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Do we really mean FREE? Lots of things in this world purport to be free, but few truly are. At KingsBridge, we offer four versions of our easy-to-use SHIELD software. One is free. Truly – no cost. You don’t need a budget because with it, you can build your Business Continuity Plan (BCP) entirely for free. Not only that, but we give you plenty of storage AND secure access to your plan from your phone or tablet using Shield Mobile.

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BCP Continuity Planning Business Continuity Security 96

Zerto

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Get ready, AWS re:Invent! Join Zerto, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, on November 27th through December 1st in Las Vegas, Nevada, in attending this year’s conference with the rest of the Hewlett Packard Enterprise team! Adopting hybrid cloud does not need to be complex—and, if leveraged correctly, it can catapult your business forward. HPE and AWS will ensure that you are no longer bogged down with managing complex infrastructure, planning capacity changes, or worrying about varying

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Pure Storage

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

How to Self-onboard Azure VMware Solution for Use with Pure Cloud Block Store by Pure Storage Blog Azure VMware Solution (AVS) and Pure Cloud Block Store™ optimize your cloud spend while delivering enterprise features that are critical for on-premises VMware users. In other blog posts in this series, we’ve talked about utilizing Run Command to administer your AVS and Pure Cloud Block Store integration, as well as enablement and automated lifecycle management.

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Management 103

Acronis

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Acronis is named a Leader in the 2023 IDC MarketScape for worldwide cyber-recovery. This prestigious recognition highlights the growing importance of proactive defense and reactive recovery in dealing with cyberattacks. Acronis was one of the first data protection vendors to identify the need for cyber-recovery solutions, and this recognition solidifies its position as a global leader in the field of cyber protection.

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Speaker: Chester Santos – Author, International Keynote Speaker, Executive Coach, Corporate Trainer, Memory Expert, U.S. Memory Champion

In October, scientists discovered that 75% of patients who experienced brain fog had a lower quality of life at work than those who did not. At best, brain fog makes you slower and less efficient. At worst, your performance and cognitive functions are impaired, resulting in memory, management, and task completion problems. In this entertaining and interactive presentation, Chester Santos, "The International Man of Memory," will assist you in developing life-changing skills that will greatly enha

Entertainment

Recovery Diva

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

From the WashPost: The longer power was out, the deadlier it was for Puerto Rico

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MHA Consulting

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Recovery plans and strategies cannot be created in a silo. Instead, they should be developed in coordination with the cybersecurity department to ensure that recovery measures do not inadvertently create vulnerabilities that can be exploited by hackers. The best way to do this is by making sure business continuity is integrated into a robust information security governance framework.

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Security Outage Vulnerability Cybersecurity 86

Disaster Zone

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Rightly or wrongly, they must carry the burden.

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PagerDuty

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In a world where organizations of all industries increasingly rely on digital innovation and experiences to create differentiation in the market, it has never been more critical to ensure the integrity of their operations are safeguarded against unforeseen outages and incidents. Operational disruptions today can have a major impact on brand reputation, create negative revenue implications and impact customer loyalty.

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Evaluation Outage Marketing Management 72

Unitrends

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

An organization’s data is arguably its most valuable asset. Due to the pivotal role data plays in driving modern businesses, it’s often termed “the new oil,” “the new currency” or “the new gold.” Protecting this valuable asset is critical for the survival of your business. Businesses today use several tools, technologies and strategies to safeguard […] The post What Is Data Loss Prevention (DLP)?

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Advancing Analytics

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

It’s no secret that I’m a big advocate of Tabular Editor (TE). I recently wrote about it on my own website (cheeky little plug for Greyskull Analytics there…). In my time working with Advancing Analytics, I’ve continued to use it with Databricks lakehouses and have even developed our own solution accelerator with Tabular Editor to get people up and running with Power BI semantic models on the lakehouse fast.

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Disaster Zone

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Lots of issues with 12 feet of snow in California.

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PagerDuty

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Reimagining emergency care rooted in equity, tackling public health challenges using sensor technologies and data analytics, and healing communities by breaking the cycle of violence and uplifting community leaders. These are some of the tech-forward solutions selected to join PagerDuty.org’s Impact Accelerator — a program that connects tech-forward organizations with holistic support including grant funding, product credits and discounts, technical pro bono support, and storytelling.

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The Rand Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The emergence of uncrewed technologies can enable the Navy to achieve greater capacity and operate in harm's way by avoiding over-concentration of combat power in too few assets.

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Capacity Technology 60

Unitrends

DECEMBER 1, 2023

In recent years, there has been a massive shift in cloud strategy, marking a transformative era where organizations no longer depend solely on a single cloud provider for their business needs. The multicloud model, which involves using multiple cloud computing services, is quickly gaining momentum. It has become the ideal cloud strategy for businesses looking […] The post What Is Multicloud?

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Cloud Computing Disaster Recovery Backup 52

Disaster Zone

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

This is the wrong record to be breaking!

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PagerDuty

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

For modern enterprises aiming to innovate faster, gain efficiency, and mitigate the risk of failure, operational resilience has become a key competitive differentiator. But growing complexity, noisy systems, and siloed infrastructure have created fragility in today’s IT operations, making the task of building resilient operations increasingly challenging.

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Constellation

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Understanding the difference between a direct vs. indirect cost, and how to use this information in pricing and profit planning, is vital to your small business. The post Direct vs. Indirect Costs: Definitions & Examples appeared first on Constellation Residential and Small Business Blog.

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