VAST Perspectives
Software as a Service Doesn’t Include Data Protection As A Service!
Using Software-as-a-Service makes the vendor responsible for your data—to a point. Even if you move email and other key business software to Office Online, you need a way to access, protect, and analyze historical data to satisfy compliance mandates and respond to...
read more
Don’t Fixate On Your Problems When Choosing a Managed Services Provider
With managed services, you get expert professional help to handle all your IT challenges. The best MSPs go beyond resolving IT crises to provide services that allow your business to grow. Managed Services Provider Best Practices Make sure your managed services...
read more
Digital Transformation Trends to Reshape Your Business
You shouldn't jump onto the digital transformation bandwagon because it's trendy. You should jump onto it because it's the right thing to do for your business. Having said that, you should be aware of trends in digital transformation so you can evaluate them and make...
read more
Managing Multicloud Requires Visibility Across All Your Clouds
One of the challenges of cloud, in general, is visibility into what's happening in your environment. The reason for that, of course, is that cloud isn't really your environment. The cloud is the cloud provider's environment; you're just using it, along with all the...
read more
Use a CASB to Protect the Cloud Services You Don’t Know You’re Using
Companies have less control of their data than they think. Employees widely use unapproved cloud services, with Gartner finding shadow IT making up as much as 30 to 40 percent of IT spending. Every cloud service presents the potential risk of data loss, so how can...
read more
Give Every Application Its Ideal Environment With Hybrid Cloud
Hybrid cloud used to be thought of as too complex for most businesses to handle. That's why cloud-bursting never took off. Yet more and more companies are choosing to adopt hybrid cloud. According to the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Index, more than 85 percent of...
read more
Use Automation to Make Multi-Cloud More Manageable
Cloud is making automation an even more important tool for IT teams. One reason is that many businesses are opting for cloud to increase their agility. They're largely doing that through implementing DevOps, which requires automation to streamline deployment...
read more
Consider These Business Benefits of Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Technology decisions are complex because they need to be evaluated from two perspectives. First, does the technology meet the technical requirements? And second, does the technology provide value to the business? Hyperconverged infrastructure helps companies solve...
read more
Strategic Thinking When Building a Hybrid Cloud
Whenever you introduce a new technology, it should be part of a strategic plan. When the technology is disruptive by design, like cloud, that's even more true. And when it comes to hybrid cloud, which introduces additional complexity to the disruption of cloud, moving...
read more
6 Steps to Keeping Data Safe in the Cloud
There are many layers to the cloud which means you need many layers of protection. Cloud providers will handle keeping the physical premises and the physical machines safe, but you remain responsible for your virtual machines, your applications, your network, and your...
read more
