VAST Perspectives
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...
read more
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....
read more
When The Cloud Decision is “No”, Consider Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Cloud is a strong solution for many companies’ technology needs, but there are often reasons to keep systems on premises. If cloud isn’t the solution to your IT challenges, you need to take a look at hyperconverged infrastructure. Reasons to Keep IT On Premises...
read more
Overcome Integration Challenges When Building Hybrid Cloud
For many organizations, hybrid cloud provides the ideal middle ground: having a private cloud allows them to retain control over operations and security, and having a public cloud provides rapid access to additional resources and enables agility. Private + Public =...
read more
Use the Right Tools to Reduce Multicloud Complexity
Multicloud gives companies great flexibility in accessing and using information technology. Along with this flexibility comes complexity, so finding ways to simplify multicloud is important to using the technology most effectively. Reasons for Multicloud Complexity...
read more
Don’t Overlook These 5 Important Items During Your Cloud Migration
There are many things you need to think about when you plan your cloud migration. Here are some things you should be careful not to overlook. 1. Test your workloads before you migrate. Testing your workloads allows you the opportunity to review your configuration,...
read more
The California Consumer Privacy Act Brings GDPR-like Regulations to the United States
Companies that don’t have European customers may have felt a bit smug last year as those businesses with data on EU subjects worked frantically to come into compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Now the shoe is on the other foot: businesses...
read more
Cloud Vendor Lock-In Is a Business Continuity Problem
Cloud vendor lock-in isn’t just a problem because it’s difficult to switch to a different cloud provider if your budget or technology needs change. Cloud vendor lock-in presents a business continuity problem; what do you do if your cloud provider goes out of business?...
read more
Drive Your Digital Transformation with the Right Backup Solution
Backups are one of those data center utility services that seem unexciting. You need them and need to make sure they work properly, but they aren’t really important and certainly not where you’d choose to invest time, effort, and money. It’s debatable whether that was...
read more
5 Reasons You Need Cloud for Digital Transformation
If all you want to get out of cloud is to lower your IT costs and reduce the workload on your support team, you're thinking too small. The better reason to use cloud is to drive your digital transformation project. Here's how using cloud can help you reinvent your...
read more
