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China Doesn't Get It

The Rand Blog

In fact, the opposite is true, given that China's behavior is backfiring in spectacular fashion. Beijing likely believes it is in its interest to signal strength and show no intention of conceding on its claims or positions. But that does not mean that will work to further China's interests.

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Disaster Risk Reduction is not a Paradigm

Emergency Planning

susceptible t o fads and fashions instead of true paradigms? By contrast, a fad or fashion involves imitation rather than strictly parallel endeavour (a fad is a more pejorative version of a fashion). Fads and fashions are far too imitative to be efficient, effective ways of addressing our problems.

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BCAW : Supply Chain : What can organisations do to attempt to protect themselves from supply chain risks?

Plan B Consulting

No fancy analytics, no Artificial Intelligence but good old-fashioned relationship building. Finally, there is the gold fashioned risk assessment. Simple, easy but a highly successful, investment free option. Seems very old school but sometimes the old ways are the best.

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New in Purity//FA 6.4.9: Cloud Archival Option, Wasabi Support, and More

Pure Storage

Policies make this possible in a streamlined fashion, and at scale, otherwise, feature assignment is manual with no simple way to ensure configuration drift does not occur. Customers running virtualized workloads continue to want to control all of FlashArray’s feature use and compliance via policy-driven interfaces.

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Reflections on the Turkish-Syrian Earthquakes of 6th February 2023: Building Collapse and its Consequences

Emergency Planning

It is a mixture of simple errors, lax procedures, ignorance, deliberate evasion, indifference to public safety, untenable architectural fashions, corruption and failure to enforce the codes. The tragedy lies in their non-observance and the paucity of retrofitting. It is these that collapse.

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Do you have a data breach response plan?

IT Governance BC

An effective incident response programme can help you detect, react to and respond to incidents in a fast, planned and coordinated fashion, limiting the damage, reducing recovery time and costs, and enabling you to meet the GDPR’s requirements. Only 30 % of organisations have an incident response plan.

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Breakthrough Awards: Mississippi Department of Revenue, our Data Warrior of the Year

Pure Storage

The beauty of the FlashBlade architecture is that it can scale in a linear fashion, and we don’t have to worry about bottlenecks as our data volumes grow,” says Deehan. Combined with the proactive system monitoring and support from Pure1 , the technology is a powerful way to keep the DOR up and running—and growing. .

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