VAST Perspectives
Infrastructure as Code
Code or administrators, that is the question.
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Should You Go Cloud Native?
Cloud promises many opportunities for improving the agility of your IT team and the scalability of your IT systems. It’s easier to take advantage of these opportunities if you refactor your systems to be cloud native when you execute your cloud migration. However,...
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Design an AWS Monitoring Strategy with These Tools
Moving your systems into cloud doesn’t mean surrendering control over them. Amazon Web Services provides a number of tools to help you monitor your AWS infrastructure. AWS Tools for Cloud Performance Monitoring In order to take advantage of the rapid provisioning...
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It Takes People and Tools to Apply Data Governance in the Cloud
Demands for data privacy continue to grow. GDPR is in effect, California is about to impose its own privacy regulations, and other states as well as the federal government are reviewing potential new laws. These demands make data governance a key function for every...
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Countdown to Backup Success
You may have heard of the 3-2-1 backup strategy. But you need to count higher than three to really have a solid backup solution. Are 3-2-1 Backups Done? The 3-2-1 strategy is shorthand for an approach to backups that includes the following: • 3 total copies of your...
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Build a High-Performance Cloud on Google Cloud Platform
Using cloud allows you to build a customized, low-cost environment to meet your workloads' needs. This is true when your application needs a high-performance computing (HPC) environment, as well as for applications with more routine performance demands. While all...
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Your Cloud Migration Approach Affects Your Long-Term Cloud Costs
The decisions you make as you plan your cloud migration have a long-term impact on both the effectiveness of your cloud technology and how much your cloud will cost you. You’ll start feeling those cloud costs as soon as you start your migration. The options for...
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Manage Multicloud Backups Better with CloudPoint and NetBackup
Multicloud lets you position your workloads and data in the cloud that’s best for them, but having data scattered makes it difficult to track and manage. With data in so many different places, how can you ensure you’ve got good copies that meet compliance standards...
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Four Questions You Need to Address When Creating An Archiving Strategy
Creating an archiving strategy requires addressing four considerations: what data should you keep; how do you store that data; how do you use that data; and how can you delete that data. Just copying data to tape (or, more likely now, cloud) doesn’t address all the...
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Track Your Multi-Cloud Resources More Effectively to Bring Spending Under Control
With computing resources scattered amongst premises and multiple cloud providers, managing resources effectively becomes challenging. It’s difficult to track where resources are and how they’re being used, and it’s hard to understand whether you’re spending wisely....
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