Take for example the old challenge of Disaster Recovery (DR). Did you know that a whopping 58% of those interviewed have not tested their disaster recovery plan in more than 6 months? More so, 23% have either never tested their plan or haven’t tested for 1-2 years, and a shocking 10% said they had no DR plan at all. I’m not sure I would be able to sleep well at night as an IT Director or CIO knowing I have no disaster recovery plan, or that the plan isn’t tested well enough to be sure it will work when needed. Most organizations today are not just reliant on IT, they live and die by IT. If an extended power outage, accidental sprinkler discharge, or a true disaster like a flood or fire is all that’s standing between me and a Resume Generating Event (RGE), I would be looking seriously at getting a DR Plan or getting it tested. The good news here is that converged and hyper-converged technology is making it cheaper and less complex to implement DR in a way that the organization can re-leverage as an asset rather than a burden.
What is your current private cloud strategy? Not currently
pursuing a private cloud strategy
Private cloud based on hyper-converged infrastructure
26% 21%
Private cloud based on traditional converged
infrastructure
Private cloud based on ʊoǢwŘʁƬ oʁƋǒƬʊǜʁŘǜǔon of legacy infrastructure
18% 5%
of IT decision makers are basing their private cloud on
hyper-converged infrastructure. 30%
When was the last time your disaster recovery plan was tested?
20% 42%
Within the past 6 months
25%
Within the past
6-12 months 13%
Within the past 1-2 years
10% Never
been tested 10%
Don’t have a plan
of IT decision makers say they
either don’t have a plan or it’s never been tested.
Focusing more on movǔng woʁǘǚoŘƞʊ to a public cloud solution
Nearly 1/3!
automation, and the cost benefits of leveraging a public infrastructure have all become essential components of a modern converged data center.
It’s an extremely exciting time for technology, as new innovations are solving business problems and creating opportunity like never before. However, the vast array of options and methods now available can make the journey to the modern converged data center seem daunting. Partners like PC Connection are helping our customers navigate the choices and challenges facing modern IT organizations every day. But just remember, wherever your organization currently is on the path, there’s always a next step, and it never hurts to have a guide along the way
To view the complete survey results, visit
www.pcconnection.com/TechPulseCDC.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
This naturally brings me to the cloud— another model that’s helping customers solve the old DR problem with new technologies. I found the responses in the poll around private cloud strategy particularly insightful—44% of respondents are pursuing some type of private cloud strategy while about 26% are not currently pursuing a cloud strategy at all. However,
the largest single group—30%—are focusing mostly on moving workloads to the public cloud. I think this shows that the adoption of cloud technologies, whether public or private, is definitely on the ascent. Organizations without some type of cloud strategy will be at a competitive disadvantage moving forward, due to the fact that scalability, self-service,
Kurt Hildebrand is the Practice Director, Converged Data Center, at PC Connection, Inc. He has more than 15 years of experience in storage, networking, virtualization, clustering, disaster recovery, and business consulting. Read more of his insights at
www.pcconnection.com/HildebrandBlog.
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