HPE's acquisition of Nimble a couple of years ago made a lot of sense for them.  As I tell people today, no one buys storage or servers because of the specs.  It's now all about management.  In fact, if you sit through a Nimble Storage dog and pony preso, you probably will notice, there are no slides on hardware.

In the previous blogs in this series, we talked about how the emergence of cloud has changed the approach to Disaster Recovery.  in today's IT world.  These changes have ranged all the way through the DR process, from the Business Impact Analysis, to the Disaster Recovery Plan, and to the Infrastructure.

The advancement of Cloud Solutions has changed the landscape of Disaster Recovery options.  In our two previous editions from this series we examined the impact on the Business Impact Analysis, and The Disaster Recovery Plan.  Today we will examine the most popular portion of a DR solution.

In our last blog we talked about how the advancements of cloud have altered the landscape and approach to disaster recovery.  Today we will focus on an important piece of a complete DR strategy...The Disaster Recovery PLAN.
"Yes we have a Disaster Recovery Plan"
I hear this a lot.

With the advance of Cloud Technology, companies today are looking at a modern approach to Disaster Recovery (DR) which leverages the flexibility offered with Cloud Computing Infrastructure as a Service models.  There are four key elements to implementing an effective DR strategy.

This week I had the opportunity to attend the local IBM Employee Charitable Contribution Campaign (ECCC) kickoff at the IBM office in Coppell, TX.  As I watched my best friend give an amazingly impassioned speech about ALS (he was diagnosed 4 weeks ago), I began to think about all of the things that our partners do to help others.

Nutanix is not “The Cloud”: 
Well, I saved what I think is the most interesting layer for our final blog in the series. The reason that I think this is the most interesting is that, to me, it is the area with the biggest hype, but yet the biggest lack of clarity.