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According to a survey done by the Harvard Crimson in 2022, 80% of the faculty at Harvard University self-identified as “liberal.” Thirty-seven percent self-identified as “very liberal.”

Only 1% self-identified as conservative.

This snapshot of the politics of the faculty at the nation’s oldest and leading university is not exceptional. Surveys of most university faculties show them overwhelmingly on the left.

If we think about it, it can help us understand why the president of Harvard, Claudine Gay, had such a hard time making a clear statement condemning the atrocities committed by Hamas against Israeli civilians.

And it can help us understand demonstrations by students at Harvard, and other universities, accusing Israel, the victim of these atrocities, as their cause.

As one Wall Street Journal columnist put it, one can hardly imagine demonstrations at Harvard against human brutality in China, Iran, North Korea, Russia or Syria.

But somehow atrocities against Israelis are not only justified in the eyes of these left-wing university elite but caused by their Israeli victims.

What is the sickness of the soul that has captured America’s elite of higher education?

To start our inquiry, we must look at Harvard’s founding. John Harvard, who provided the college’s first endowment, was a clergyman.

Read the language on Harvard’s seal: “Veritas Christo et Ecclesiae.”

“Truth for Christ and Church.”

How many of Harvard’s administration today, of those teaching at Harvard today, of those learning at Harvard today can identify with these words from the earliest days of their university?

I don’t know the exact number, but I think if we guess zero, we’ll be close to the truth.

America was founded and built by Christians who sought truth and worked to make a better world.

Were there flaws, mistakes? Of course. They were men.

But the way to Boost is to get closer to the truth, not to throw it in the trash.

Those administering, teaching and learning at Harvard and our other leading universities are not consumed by scholarship and truth-seeking, but by ideology.

Ideology is strikingly similar to another word: idol. Something man builds for himself and worships.

It is the product of egotism and pride and not the product of humility, which comes only from knowing there is a truth bigger than you, of which you are part.

Claudine Gay condemned hate and said her university is about bringing people with differences together. This is a university president who does not see “veritas,” truth and good and evil in the world, as embodied and conveyed in the message on her university seal and its history.

The job of universities is to pursue truth. But this is impossible when they do not believe truth exists. Thinking that the point is bringing together people rather than pursing truth is an exercise in ideology, not scholarship, and leads only to the social, cultural and spiritual degeneration we are experiencing.

If we want to save our country, let’s save our places of learning. Let’s purge the sea of ethnic, political and ideological clubs that dominate social and intellectual life at what are supposed to be our institutions of learning.

The terrorists are financed by the sale of oil. That oil was found, developed and is worth mega-billions because of Western technology. A disproportionate contribution to the development of that science and technology has come from the very people whose homeland is Israel, against whom the terrorists commit atrocities.

The United States grew and became great with the values that brought forth the miracle that is the modern State of Israel. The moral relativism and hedonism of America’s left is now obliterating these truths.

A new birth of freedom in America means a new birth of truth and learning at our universities.

Hybrid cloud is happening. A growing number of organisations have a heterogeneous mix of in-house legacy systems alongside applications that run on disparate cloud services, often sourced from more than one provider.

Using cloud for IT services makes economic sense and gives flexible capacity for when scalability is required to cope with spikes in demand and business growth. However, this complex picture presents challenges for IT leaders who need to keep track of data – the lifeblood of any organisation.

Success in the digital age is dependent on the level of agility in a business to gather, manage and analyse data to support decision-making – whether driven by customer demand, competition, new business opportunities or compliance requirements.

Organisations cannot risk critical data becoming fragmented because of a messy, disparate IT environment. Ensuring data is immediately accessible wherever it resides, that downtime is mimimised, and data meets compliance regulations, are all priorities on the roadmap to a hybrid data architecture.

A new approach
Clive Longbottom, research director at analyst Quocirca, says one way forward is to create a compliance-oriented architecture, which ensures full visibility of data flowing unimpeded across this heterogeneous environment.

“It is based on having a full knowledge of what data and information you have and what it means. To do this, you need to put information at the centre of any architecture,” he says.

He says that historically, the favoured approach has been to create a datawarehouse or a data lake – but that is costly, and rarely works. A new approach to managing data is necessary to make sense of what data exists where, especially with the increasingly common scenario of multiple cloud vendors contracted by one organisation. No organisation can afford to have information blind spots.

The focus on integration becomes even more necessary as different cloud providers are brought in. Today two-thirds (66%) of workloads run on public and private cloud, with 34% remaining on-premise, but that in-house figure is predicted to shrink by 36% over the next year, according to research by information management company Veritas.

This shift to cloud increasingly introduces new players into an organisation. Already nearly three-quarters (74%) of enterprises use two or more cloud infrastructure providers and 23% are using four or more.

“This is the nature of cloud – it is unlikely there will be a one-stop shop that does everything an organisation needs. Therefore, integration, contract management and information management become major issues,” says Longbottom.

Managing data across multiple clouds
Any enterprise must be prepared for managing the way multiple clouds interoperate to ensure data is properly protected, managed and leveraged for decision making.

It is becoming increasingly important to keep business services and applications available because organisations are looking to cloud to host mission-critical applications, including CRM and ERP, as reservations about the security of cloud subside.

While some organisations are warier than others, Longbottom believes security fears are often based on misplaced prejudice against public cloud.

“We are still seeing organisations being cautious about putting mission-critical applications in the public cloud. In reality, there are few reasons not to move business critical workloads to the cloud – but that visceral fear from organisations will make it a rather slow process,” he says.

But attitudes are changing, driven by the need to be agile and keep costs down and the realisation that cloud services can be secure. However, if something goes wrong the enterprise must be prepared. Managing for high availability and providing disaster recovery are essential requirements for successful hybrid cloud architecture.

Responsibility rests with the organisation’s IT department to ensure the smooth flow of data within this multi-cloud environment as the various cloud providers cannot be expected to fulfil this function. The IT department must have the right tools and strategies in place to ensure it can do the job because you cannot outsource risk.

For organisations that keep data onsite, disaster recovery (27%) and backup (28%) are cited as key factors by the Veritas survey. Speed to recovery is the critical measure in responding to any failures.

“Use snapshots and object indices to be able to rebuild failed storage nodes as rapidly as possible,” says Longbottom. He advises enterprises to “make sure that business continuity is catered for.”

Enterprises can enjoy the benefits of hybrid cloud and minimise the risk of data blind-spots, downtime and compliance breaches, only if a hybrid cloud architecture allows data to flow freely in a robust environment which meets business expectations of high availability in the digital age.

Whitehouse-based Jasper Ventures laid off a "pretty small percentage of its workforce" Thursday morning at its Veritas fabrication facility in Troup.

Jasper provides gas processing services and makes natural gas plants. Veritas produces parts used to build those plants.

Amber Payne, Jasper's marketing and communications manager, said the company employs about 400 people at facilities in Texas and Oklahoma. It's a "small-to-mid size company," she said.

She didn't immediately have the specific number of people who were laid off Thursday morning, but it was small enough that the move didn't trigger a required notification to the state's workforce commission.

"It's due to the ebbs and flows of the oil and gas industry," she said, and Veritas is still operating.

"It's definitely not anything we enjoy doing. It's an unfortunate part of business in oil and gas sometimes," she added.

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