{"id":10552,"date":"2014-04-14T23:45:13","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T23:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/apr\/15\/hp-trying-stand-out-crowd-draas-space\/"},"modified":"2014-04-14T23:45:13","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T23:45:13","slug":"hp-trying-to-stand-out-from-the-crowd-in-the-draas-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/hp-trying-to-stand-out-from-the-crowd-in-the-draas-space\/","title":{"rendered":"HP: Trying to stand out from the crowd in the DRaaS space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in September, Nirvanix announced to its customers that they had two weeks to move its data before the company went down the plughole.<\/p>\n<p>As the enterprise cloud storage provider waved the white flag, Gartner research director Kyle Hilgendorf noted in a blog post that the analyst house&rsquo;s paper on cloud exit strategies was one of the least popular in the collection.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I suspect it is because cloud exits are not nearly as sexy as cloud deployments,&rdquo; he demurred. &ldquo;They are an afterthought.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>This is an issue that patently needs to change. As Hilgendorf asserted, recovery in the cloud may not be sexy, but they&rsquo;re just as vital as moving to the cloud, whether it&rsquo;s through natural disasters or company shutdowns.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that there are plenty of options out there, from niche providers to the big guys, such as VMware, and IBM, who added &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in September, Nirvanix announced to its customers that they had two weeks to move its data before the company went down the plughole.<br \/>\nAs the enterprise cloud storage provider waved the white flag, Gartner research director Kyle Hilgendorf noted in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}