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Disaster Response and Equity: Reflecting on the Racial Disparities in Texas Power Outages

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

This February marked two years since Texans were hit with widespread power outages during the deep freeze of 2021. The state’s energy supply chain was unable to withstand the sustained low temperatures, as generation resources were strained due to cold weather tripping units, natural gas supply curtailments, and wind power generation outages.

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APAC Retrospective: Learnings from a Year of Tech Outages, Restore: Repair vs Root Cause by David Ridge

PagerDuty

When an IT outage strikes, the primary concern is the rapid restoration of services. The correct action, especially in the face of a service outage, would be to opt for a swift rollback of the change that introduced the bug. For an excellent deep dive on MTTR, this recently published blog outlines the benefits and challenges perfectly.

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Top 10 Resources to Help You Become a BCM Ninja 

MHA Consulting

Anything and everything is out there regarding how you can protect your organization and its stakeholders from disruptions and recover quickly when outages occur. Then as now, the government published resources to help organizations protect themselves. BCM consultancy websites. Collectively these are an exceptional resource.

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Snapshots vs. Backups vs. Replication: What’s the Difference?

Pure Storage

Merge replication is the most complex type of data replication because it allows both publishers and subscribers to make changes to the database independently. . It allows changes to be sent from one publisher to multiple subscribers. Merge Replication is when data from two or more databases is combined into a single database.

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Lowering Azure VMs Recovery Time with Pure Cloud Block Store and Azure Automation

Pure Storage

It helps keep your multi-tier applications running during planned and unplanned IT outages. For those organizations that choose to migrate and run their mission-critical applications on the cloud, Pure Cloud Block Store ™ offers built-in protection against outages of availability zones, regions, and even clouds.

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Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of September 22; Updates from Alcion, Arcserve, Veeam & More

Solutions Review

Arcserve Drops New Research on Healthcare Data Protection The findings reveal gaps, vulnerabilities, and misconceptions in the healthcare sector, potentially hindering its ability to effectively safeguard and recover data in the event of malicious attacks and accidental data outages stemming from human error or natural events.

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Non-disruptive DR Drills for Oracle Databases Using Pure Storage ActiveDR?—?Part 4 of 4

Pure Storage

The second is an unplanned outage requiring an emergency failover that could arise from any number of things, including human error, hardware failure, or natural disaster. Primary Data Center Outage Caused by a Power Failure Promote the DR pod to resume business operations from the DR site. Read more about it in my Medium post.