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I was reading an article on Network World about a poll done with IT professionals and their preferences and plans for moving parts of their data centers to a share resource like the cloud. To be honest this does not really surprise me in any way. If you read my article on Cloud Recovery, you know that I feel that moving to the Cloud involves a lot of re-thinking and planning.

As with many “hot” technologies, many organizations got infatuated with the Cloud and quickly started moving everything over and thinking this is it, it is elastic, it can’t go down, and this is our production and disaster recovery all in one.

One problem, it did go down. At least for Amazon and their very public Cloud outage (link) and even with VMware’s not quite as public outage (link).

One of the most popular questions I get when talking to current or potential clients is, what is a vCIO (virtual CIO) and how does it differ from technical consulting. I can see where there is a confusion of the difference as there are similarities in the two.

I was talking to a colleague the other day when the subject of disaster recovery came up. Like vAusTek he works with a lot of companies in this line of work and is amazed just how many do not have any business continuity / disaster recovery plan in place. We are not talking about just the small businesses, but businesses with $100 Million in revenue plus as well. It seems like most want it, but for some reason or another have never went past the idea of it.

It seems like common since that before you reach the finish line, you must first get past the start let alone everything in between. Yet you see it all the time where organizations envision the finish line, but forget that they must first figure out where to start and then plan out the best route to actually make it there.