All Hazards planning needs to now included Congressional produced events.

So we have all ready the analysis, opinions, social media about what will or won't happen during the <Edited ~ So the fools did it >  Government shutdown.   What we do know is that All Hazards now clearly needs to include Congressional produced events like shutting down on purpose the US Government.

Pretty sure I don't have to remind the audience of this blog that besides being in Hurricane season we have how many wild fires or Earthquakes on going and what ever known unknown we have forthcoming.

 Since there has to be some plan for dealing with "All Hazard" we would love to see the orders of operations for a shutdown of the very government providing services. 

And, we can think of no better example of why a Public Safety Cloud need to exist since it's went not if that we're preparing for and not being able to bring the full force and computing power of the US Government during a disaster is unconscionable.  We have provided example of hybrid clouds, and scaling up virtual machines (think computing power) at the click of few keys so there is really no reason to not start building out the capabilities to respond with our best to any and all hazards.

One final question and one of the big unknowns is what will happen to Social Media Accounts for government agencies during a shutdown?

BTW for any tourists or world leaders visiting the Nation's Capital City there is chance other than necessary personal much of the District of Columbia's workforce will be furloughed aka not at work.   We do applaud Mayor Gray for defining Congress and working to keep the District of Columbia open and visitors and works in the Capitol of the Free world safe and hope that Federal authorities don't interfer with DC's capabilities to run all of it State, County and City level services during this self imposed Federal shutdown.

Have the recent size and scope of the natural disasters announced our tipping point

There is no need to inform anyone on the event after event beseiging our planet, no one or place is immune, and that local systems will be over whelmed and that our current dependency on fixed location Emergency Operation Centers "EOC" is a showllow grave.

I will be making a point about this at the upcoming CloudCamp in DC

Eventbrite - CloudCamp DC Oct 11, 2011
Nelson registered for CloudCamp DC Oct 11, 2011 at Eventbrite!

Location: IBM DC Office - Washington, DC

Time: Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Hosted By: CloudCamp

I would encourage others from the #SMEM world to consider joining me at this CloudCamp and in public discussion in person and online #smemchat about the need to be able to have our EOC be at least as flexible as any start-up with no public lives at stake is making happen everyday

Now more then ever the need for a Public Safety Cloud as come to the point of doing something about and not waiting for contractors, which we are, to come up with some way to bill this the need is NOW and governments will not be able to collect taxes if they people die and this is one hazard we can mitigate it's called a hybrid Cloud and I have already posted examples of how it is working NOW. 

Here is one way of dealing with Identified Agents.

Vikas: Yes, until all requirements can be met with one product, Corporations will be hesitant to move beyond simple pilots or tightly controlled private clouds. They needed a broad set of solutions that addressed the full life cycle of access requirements. These solutions would have to be all standards based, integrated with corporate identity management infrastructure and accessible from any client, network or remote cloud platform. Since Intel has a special relationship with hardware OEM & ISV’s we were able to develop a unique solution for complete and secure access to the cloud. We connect the browsers, client and the web service.

Intel’s Cloud Access 360 Leads the Way

In an exclusive interview with Intel on Friday, March 25th, Cloudtweaks.com spoke with Vikas Jain as a follow-up to Intel’s announced Expressway Cloud Access 360 at Cloud Connect.

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Information dispersal is key for the Public Safety Cloud?

Using information dispersal --slicing the data and spreading it out among servers, only to be reassembled when you need it--that very same file has a 60% storage overhead in a standard configuration. That’s it. It doesn’t increase. And, if a number of servers where slices are dispersed happen to fail, you can get your entire, uncorrupted and undamaged file back, as long as you have access to a minimum threshold for retrieval. That means, for example, if six of 16 slices are down, you can still get the entire file back. The entire file. At a lower cost. With less complexity. Without replication. Information dispersal does it without the stress, risk, hardware and bandwidth associated with the old way.

While reading post on High Scalability, I came across this and thought it just made sense for the architecture of the public safety cloud. Anyone else have an opinion?

Watch this live migration of a local to cloud services~ as to how

If you're the local Emergency Manager you could lose your EOC for any number reasons. What are you going to do and how are you going to do it? For regional and federal responses this is an even bigger unanswered question.

We've all come so attached to our devices in such a short time operationally that contingency plans are not being addressed. Well other then agencies and companies that are never going to say a word in public.

Here is one example of the how. IMHO It's pretty simple. The lesson to take away is that when we have a Hybrid Cloud setup with a Public Safety Cloud overaly we'll have addressed the basic Operational needs for what is going to happen on the ground.

Remember it's not a matter of if......

The only folks not on CLOUD are Emergency Responders.

Government IT Forecast: Cloudy with a Chance for Myth-busting – Great Government through Technology

Now that the GSA is getting being the effort to move .GOV to .CLOUD it should not be lost on those of  in Public Safety that everyone of these Cloud Co that these GOV is going too  are bragging about how safe and secure they are in their business plans and public materials.

Well! IMHO if not for the effort of local emergency management agencies coordinating a response these super cloud center are sitting ducks and no better off then any other business or individual.

The devastation we saw in Haiti or Japan and New Orleans in less then 24 hours is all the proof anyone needs to see the seriousness of this matter. 

Indeed with plans under way for the New Madrid National Exercise 11. What say those working on this as to how they respond when a whole town disappears or the local grid goes down and responders are grasping for information.

We know that the citizens will be using Twitter, Facebook and SMS to cry out for help. And with  all of these consumer provider using the cloud they are scalable, on demand no phone calls in middle of night for NET ops personal or not enough hardware available or more circuits need to be turned on.  Again because they are on the CLOUD.  It seems the only folks not on the Cloud are Emergency Responders.

To rectify this we need all of the "Cloud Service Providers" CSP to join in a national task force to design/build and promulgate a Public Safety Cloud. This service is analogous to the TV Broadcaster and their responsibility to air Public Service Messages. We have no choice about going to the Cloud and it needs to be done sooner then latter. 

Please discuss...........

Nelson @HastatusLLC

Crisis Data: We need an Public Safety Cloud NOW.

Crisis Data: We need an Public Safety Cloud NOW.: "One only has to go take a look at the after effects of the 4 major disasters that Japan suffered 1. Earth Quake2. Tsunami 3. Volcano4. Nucl..."

This is the very reason that we need a Public Safety Cloud.