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.

It’s been pretty Cloudy on the IT front for the last several years.  AWS, Azure and IBM SoftLayer leading the pack and spinning up some impressive marketing materials around moving all workloads to the cloud.  Immediately. Easy Peasy!

Well, reality is sinking in as customers make the attempt to move “everything” and find that the application, process, regulatory and departmental interdependencies, along with the preparation needed for general lift and shift of certain workloads,  are not as easy in practice as they are on paper.

Given that Cima’s IT Managed Services works closely with those in the legal industry, I have decided to write about technology trends and certain recommendations that law firms should apply.  While security is top of mind with all of our clients, we find our law firms to be the most diligent.

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.

With Hurricane Florence currently making landfall in the United States, disaster recovery is top of mind for many people.  Veeam has a white paper out titled “Five Keys to Keeping Your District’s Digital Services Up and Running” that includes general advice that any type of organization can take to implement an effective disaster recovery plan.

What Does Resiliency Mean in I.T.?

When you talk with most clients, their answer to this question is quite simply, “we can’t be down.”. While this is an optimal desired state for all, the cost for achieving this is not affordable for most companies.

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Disaster recovery 101: What you need to know about disaster recovery (and how the cloud changes things)
(This article was written by Wayne Rash and originally appeared on hpe.com)

The term "disaster recovery" has been bandied around the world of IT for decades.