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Tag: Business Continuity

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Where Are the Masks? Supply Chain Reckoning Coming Post Pandemic

There is a coming reassessment of brittle and unresponsive supply chains prompted by the inadequate supply of medical masks. The masks, their non-woven fibers, ventilator parts, air cargo capacity, anticompetitive concentrations, government requisitions, and labor force disruptions are just a few of the third-party and supply chain risks revealed by Covid-19. Already in the U.S. there is strong sentiment to repatriate manufacturing and warehousing of medical goods.

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New Risk: Can our Networks Handle a Nation Working from Home

Have our risk and continuity plans accounted for home network bottlenecks? Our day-job needs and expectations are colliding with our family-scale data networks. We are all home and online together: learning, streaming, gaming, trading, accessing, conferencing. In Europe, some networks and applications have seen traffic increases of 80% and 90%. Seattle has seen total internet traffic increase 30% over January. It is a great experiment. Fingers crossed.