Jeff Puffenberger, formerly senior director of the state, local and education practice at Riverbed, has been promoted to vice president for the U.S. public sector group of the digital performance software provider. The 25-year enterprise technology veteran will oversee work with Riverbed’s work with federal, state and local governm...
Police in San Bernardino recovered more than $10,000 in stolen property and arrested three suspects last week in a transient encampment in the Santa Ana riverbed, officials announced Monday.
Members of the department’s Southern District Resource Team had been investigating several latest commercial burglaries at businesses bordering the riverbed. On Jan. 18, authorities entered the area on foot.
“A sizeable transient encampment was located, and several high-value items were found in plain view,” SBPD said in a news release. “These items consisted of Milwaukee drills, Stihl chainsaws, concrete saws, and hydraulic cutting tools.”
Police also found more than a dozen laptops, cellphones, iPads and point-of-sale devices believed to be stolen during the latest burglaries.
“The victims of the burglaries were identified, and their property was returned,” the news release stated.
The three suspects were not identified, though officials said they were arrested on felony charges.
Officials reported the encampment to San Bernardino County Public Works for cleanup in the coming days.
Anyone with information regarding stolen property can contact Sergeant Anna McKenna at 909-384-4885.
Dubai, United Arab Emirates – Riverbed, the leader in unified observability, today announced new updates to Alluvio IQ, its cloud-native, SaaS-delivered Unified Observability service that empowers IT with actionable insights to remediate problems faster and Boost the digital experience. The latest capabilities expand Alluvio IQ’s reach of machine learning and automated investigations to include end user experience telemetry from Alluvio Aternity Digital Experience Management to solve issues in remote and SASE environments as well as integrate with third-party tools. Alluvio IQ enables IT organizations to “shift left,” enabling all staff to do the job of more experienced IT experts, freeing-up senior IT staff to focus on strategic business initiatives.
“IT teams are struggling with the complexity of today’s environments. Siloed tools designed for a single domain have created blind spots in new environments such as remote work and SASE. IT teams often need to look at different perspectives, from flow, packets, infrastructure, and end user experience to fully understand a problem and its impact,” said Richard Tworek, Chief Technology Officer, Alluvio, at Riverbed. “The latest release of Alluvio IQ now includes the end user experience perspective powered by Alluvio Aternity to help diagnose issues in remote work and SASE/SSE environments. We also added support for third-party tools to further expand the reach of Alluvio IQ’s automation. These features further accelerate troubleshooting by providing IT with a single source for alerts and supporting data.”
“Alluvio IQ is helping my team realize a self-healing network. Using the built-in features of runbooks and AI/ML we can reduce the number of alerts and capitalize on our automation processes to perform corrective actions to the network before users experience impact. Alluvio IQ is a game changer in monitoring and unified observability,” said Earl Foster, Manager Network Services, American Airlines.
Alluvio Aternity Integration Adds Remote Work and SASE Visibility
Organizations need to surface connectivity or transport issues that are affecting user experience, no matter where the user is located or which type of application they are using (data center, mobile, cloud, or SaaS). With the Alluvio Aternity integration, Alluvio IQ provides network teams with the observability to surface impactful incidents in these environments and pinpoint where the problem is happening.
Third-Party Integration with Automated Runbooks
Alluvio IQ now includes data from third-party tools in its automated investigations. Enterprises typically have multiple monitoring tools from different providers and manually combine data from these different tools when troubleshooting. Alluvio IQ can now integrate with non-Riverbed tools using a flexible approach, including pulling data from other monitoring tools or pushing contextual events to ITSM solutions within the automated Runbooks. Organizations leveraging Alluvio IQ can now have one place to go to see impactful events, which includes the context IT teams need to solve problems quickly, and that context can come from both Riverbed and non-Riverbed sources.
Alluvio IQ Security Certifications
The new release provides SOC2 Type II, ISO 27001 security certifications that are requirements for purchasing a SaaS solution for many organizations and government agencies. These certifications ensure organizations Alluvio IQ contains the policies, procedures, and technology to keep their data secure and private.
For more information on Riverbed Alluvio IQ, please visit www.riverbed.com/alluvio-iq
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A woman had a baby in a riverbed with the help of the father as floodwaters rushed in, California police said.
The Lompoc Fire Department was checking on black smoke they had seen earlier in the day near the Santa Ynez River in Lompoc when they found the woman in active labor shortly before noon on Monday, Jan. 9, according to a press release posted to the Lompoc Police Department’s Facebook page.
The child’s father helped the woman deliver the baby prematurely, police said.
The fire department contacted the family while coming up with a “plan to rescue the trio, as they were surrounded by water flowing through the riverbed,” police said.
After the fire department rescued the family of three from the riverbed, the child and mother were taken to a hospital, according to police. Both are in stable condition.
Police said they are investigating the situation as a potential child endangerment case and that they have notified Child Welfare Services.
The rescue came during warnings of “atmospheric rivers” in California as a series of intense storms slams the state, The Associated Press reported. The storms have killed at least 14 people, flooded streets, downed trees, forced evacuations and cut power to tens of thousands of people.
Lompoc is about 150 miles northwest of Los Angeles.
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Alberta has been ground zero for dinosaur discoveries in Canada since the 1880s, when several Geological Survey of Canada expeditions collected dinosaur bones from the southern part of the province.
The most significant specimens tended to come from the badlands along the Red Deer River, including the highly productive ones in what is now aptly called Dinosaur Provincial Park.
Exciting finds continue to be made in those badlands every year, but northern Alberta has been much less extensively explored from a paleontological perspective. However, a Late Cretaceous period geological unit called the Wapiti Formation has emerged in latest decades as an important source of dinosaurs and other fossils.
Last year, I coauthored a study, led by Federico Fanti of the University of Bologna, of the vertebrates from the fossil-rich middle part of the Wapiti Formation, called Wapiti Unit 3.
Unfortunately, the Grande Prairie area, where the paleontologically richest known exposures of the Wapiti Formation are located, isn't the easiest place to go looking for fossils. In the dry southern badlands, the sparseness of the vegetation leaves extensive areas of bare, weathered rock that can be searched for specimens relatively quickly and easily. Grande Prairie, on the other hand, is in a heavily forested part of Alberta, where rock exposure is mostly limited to the banks of waterways.
Sometimes we use boats, but fossil hunting in the Wapiti Formation often entails trudging along the riverbeds, searching small, steep patches of exposed rock—what geologists call "outcrop"—for precious bones and teeth.
My collaborators and I see two compelling reasons to pursue our Wapiti fieldwork. First, Grande Prairie is about 4.5 degrees north of Dinosaur Provincial Park now, and in the Late Cretaceous the difference in latitude would have been similar.
It's possible that during the Late Cretaceous, the Grande Prairie area was home to a northern ecological community that differed in composition from those present in other parts of southern Alberta.
Second, the Wapiti Formation may provide information about dinosaur evolution during a short but interesting interval of geological time. During the Cretaceous, sea levels were so high that ocean waters spilled into the central part of the North American continent, creating the Western Interior Seaway that divided the western land mass of Laramidia from the eastern land mass of Appalachia. What is now Alberta was more or less on the east coast of Laramidia.
There was a period of some 1.2 million years when sea levels were so high that much of southern Alberta was covered by the Western Interior Seaway, resulting in the deposition of marine rocks known as the Bearpaw Formation. This interval of marine sedimentation—the Bearpaw Gap—separates the geologically older Dinosaur Park Formation from the geologically younger Horseshoe Canyon Formation.
The Dinosaur Park and Horseshoe Canyon Formations contain rather different faunas of dinosaurs and other terrestrial vertebrates. There must have been an abrupt or gradual transition from a Dinosaur Park-style ecological community to a Horseshoe Canyon-style one.
But exactly how and when this transition took place is unclear, because the Bearpaw Gap obscures patterns of changes on land during the critical interval.
What is now the Grande Prairie area, however, remained high and dry. This means that the Wapiti Formation preserves an unbroken record of terrestrial vertebrate life from the entire time period represented by the Dinosaur Park, Bearpaw and Horseshoe Canyon Formations.
Better yet, Wapiti Unit 3 falls within the time range of the Bearpaw Gap, and can therefore shed light on the nature of the transition from the Dinosaur Park fauna to the Horseshoe Canyon fauna.
The most important evidence comes from a Wapiti Unit 3 locality called the DC Bonebed, which contains a diverse sample of small to medium-sized vertebrate bones and teeth.
The DC Bonebed sample bears some important resemblances to the vertebrate fauna from the Dinosaur Park Formation, including the presence of the turtle Plesiobaena antiqua. Other species from the Dinosaur Park Formation that have close, though not necessarily identical, counterparts from the DC Bonebed include the dinosaur Chirostenotes pergracilis (a strange, toothless relative of birds) and the marsupial mammal Eodelphis browni.
The sample from the DC Bonebed is also like the fauna from the Dinosaur Park Formation, but unlike the fauna from the Horseshoe Canyon Formation, in the mixture of turtles that is present and the occurrence of crocodilians.
The Wapiti Unit 3 assemblage is not exactly identical to its counterpart from the Dinosaur Park Formation. Sturgeons are unusually abundant in the DC Bonebed, as is a crocodilian-like Cretaceous reptile called Champsosaurus, whereas amphibians and true crocodilians are surprisingly rare.
The DC Bonebed and other Wapiti Unit 3 localities provide strong evidence that a broadly Dinosaur Park-like ecosystem existed in Alberta during the Bearpaw Gap, and was then rapidly replaced by the Horseshoe Canyon ecosystem when sea levels fell.
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Riverbed®, the leader in unified observability, today announced that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has recognized Alex Thurber, Senior Vice President, Global Partners and Alliances, and Meg Brennan, Vice President, Global Channels, on its 2023 Channel Chiefs list. Every year, this list honors the IT channel executives who work tirelessly to advance the channel agenda and deliver successful channel partner programs and strategies.
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At Riverbed, Thurber leads the global partner ecosystem, and is focused on accelerating business opportunities, ensuring market and customer needs are met, and creating greater collaboration across the entire partner and channel community. Riverbed's partner ecosystem includes leading solution providers, distributors, system integrators, service providers, and technology alliances. Brennan is dedicated to creating the programs and partner experience that drive joint success for Riverbed and its partners across all sales motions, including partner programs, incentives, enablement, operations, and support.
"I congratulate Alex and Meg for being recognized for their career achievements and dedication to driving success in the channel and with our partner community," said Shaun Bierweiler, Chief Revenue Officer, at Riverbed. "Riverbed has a world-class partner ecosystem, and we support partners with programs such as Riverbed Rise, and through our industry leading Alluvio Unified Observability and Riverbed Acceleration portfolios. Our solutions enable our mutual customers to empower IT with actionable insights to remediate issues faster and deliver seamless digital experience, while providing fast, agile, secure acceleration of any app, over any network, to users anywhere."
The 2023 Channel Chiefs have helped their solution provider partners and customers navigate an increasingly complex landscape of interconnected challenges and shifting industry dynamics. With the innovative strategies, programs, and partnerships of these Channel Chiefs in place, the solution provider community has continued to thrive.
The 2023 CRN Channel Chiefs were selected by the editorial staff based on their record of business innovation and dedication to the partner community. This year's list represents the top IT executives responsible for building a robust channel ecosystem.
"Once again, this year's list gives well-deserved recognition to the IT Channel Chiefs who are dedicated to driving the channel agenda and advocating for the development of strong channel partnerships," said Blaine Raddon, CEO of The Channel Company. "Under their exceptional leadership, influence, and innovation, the IT channel vendor community continues to deliver solutions and services that meet the rapidly evolving needs of their solution provider partners and their customers."
The 2023 CRN Channel Chiefs list will be featured in the February 2023 issue of CRN Magazine and online at www.CRN.com/ChannelChiefs.
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