Emergency Management Hurricane Katrina – In a League of Its Own March 25, 2014 by Sukh Grewal Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the gulf coast around the Mississippi-Louisiana border in the early morning hours of August 29, 2005 as a strong Category 3 Hurricane with an unusually large size – hurricane force winds across a path 240 miles wide. Read more »
Emergency Management FEMA Fire Declarations & the Pareto Principle March 19, 2014 by Sukh Grewal Vilfredo Pareto was an Italian economist and philosopher whose observation that 80% of the land in Italy was owned by 20% of the people eventually became the basis of the "Pareto Principle". T Read more »
Emergency Management Disaster Declarations by State March 12, 2014 by Sukh Grewal The tallies are in, and the winner is...Texas! Texas counted three hundred and thirty-four declarations in the sixty years from 1953 to 2013. That's an average of over five disasters per year. The Lone Star state topped both categories: Fire Declarations and Major Disasters. Every state has had at least one disaster declaration with Wyoming at the other end of the spectrum with only nine, roughly one every six years. Read more »
Business Continuity Information Emergencies – Sharing with Teams & the Public February 20, 2014 by Sukh Grewal Weather emergencies, such as the recent spate of snowstorms that clobbered the Eastern United States, are also information emergencies. By that I mean that all of the stakeholders - local governments, utility companies, emergency responders, and public citizens - are in need of accurate, timely information, which isn't always forthcoming. Read more »
Emergency Management Major Tornadoes Since 1953 January 22, 2014 by Sukh Grewal In recent years, adventurous coverage of tornadoes on television has made us all aware of the devastation they cause. The summer heat over a large landmass spawns more tornadoes in the US than in any other country. FEMA has made available records of Major Disaster Declarations for Tornadoes. Read more »
Veoci News Updates Connecticut Does it Right – Investing in Jobs the Right Way January 21, 2014 by Sukh Grewal The latest report from Pitchbook, "2014 Annual US VC Valuations & Trends Report" was just published with great news for Connecticut: Connecticut Innovations, the government-sponsored organization for venture investment, broke into the TOP 10 ranks of investors for both the Seed/Angel and Early Stage Investments. Read more »
Emergency Management Sixty-One Years of Disasters & Disaster Declarations – Some Basics January 14, 2014 by Sukh Grewal FEMA has a web site dedicated to the past sixty-one years of disaster declarations. The site has limited information about the 3,567 Major Disaster Declarations, Emergency Declarations, and Fire Management Assistance Declarations from 1953 to today. Read more »
Veoci News Updates Cloud Computing – It’s Smaller than You Think November 20, 2013 by Sukh Grewal When asked "Is it always better to own your own data center?" ZDNet and TechRepublic's CIO jury panel of technology decision-makers responded with a resounding "NO" by a margin of 11 to 1. Read more »
Communication & Collaboration Big Game Hunting on Google Maps Street View November 5, 2013 by Sukh Grewal While flipping through National Geographic Magazine's photography issue (October 2013), I came across a Norwegian landscape with a lake in the foreground, distant hills, a gray, cloudy sky, and—surprise!—a lone reindeer, galloping along the road. Read more »
Business Continuity Healthcare Sympathy for HealthCare.gov October 30, 2013 by Sukh Grewal Comedians, commentators, and politicians are having a field day with the problems at healthcare.gov. As software developers and computer operations experts, part of us is just not laughing. Read more »
