resilience

Putting the “Trust” in Trustworthy SD-WAN

With ever-more sophisticated threats, network operators must be able to trust that the hardware and software that comprise their infrastructure are genuine, uncompromised, and operating as intended.

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Urban Resilience: Engaging your Community through Data

Growing a smarter, more resilient city requires rapid and transparent interaction between government and the people. Increase community engagement by bringing more citizens and more data into the governance process.

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The Most Boring Service We offer … And how to bring down a data center in one easy snip!

I do enjoy the (sometimes irreverent!) perspectives of some articles on data center in the UK publication “The Register”, and the story of how a data center change went wrong

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Ten Learnings and Observations from the 2015 London Gartner Data Center Conference (Part 1)

This past week I attended the 2015 Gartner Data Center Conference in London.  This is always a great conference to learn from, although it always pays to look out…

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Leadership and Vision – Two critical ingredients for achieving regional resiliency

On May 24, 2012, the non-profit Sustainable Silicon Valley and its partners gathered at West Summit 2012, with hundreds of others, to explore interlocking themes: Global Trade, Regional Resilience, and

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The Resilient Society: The Next Phase of Public Sector Reform

Public sector decision makers are under enormous pressure to deliver results in difficult and uncertain times. In late 2010 and early 2011, the Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG) conducted

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The Misalignment Between The Economic Success of Local Government and Their Residents

As you can see from some of the other posts here, at the request of the US Conference of Mayors, I’ve been focusing on an economic development strategy that will

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Making MPI survive process failures

Arguably, one of the biggest weaknesses of MPI is its lack of resilience — most (if not all) MPI implementations will kill an entire MPI job if any individual process

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