VAST Perspectives
Cloud Backup and Recovery are Cost-Effective Data Protection Strategies
A backup is just a copy of your data. So why are backups so expensive, and can cloud backup help you reduce those costs? The Costs of Making Backups First, let’s be clear that we aren’t really talking just about backups. For backups to be useful, you need a recovery...
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Don’t Settle for a High-Level Look at Your Cloud Bills
Cloud bills are thick. Every individual item is charged, sometimes by the millisecond, and the charges vary month-to-month, too. As a result, it may be tempting just to pay the bill, rather than trying to understand the details. To manage cloud costs properly, though,...
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Cloud Management Tools Mean Clouds Don’t Need to Block Your Vision
Cloud is a metaphor, but it’s appropriate. Clouds in the sky block pilots’ vision and make navigating by instrument necessary. Cloud technology gets in the way of IT management’s view of technology and makes using new tools vital to ensure that cloud systems are...
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Additional Data Doesn’t Have to Require Additional Storage
Would you build an addition to your house when you ran out of closet space? Of course not; you’d sort through your closet and discard items that are old or duplicates. You might buy one of those storage bags that vacuums out the air to compress the space required. Yet...
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5 Cost Benefits of Cloud
There are many facets to cloud: public, private, hybrid, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and more. The many technical options means there’s a way to make cloud technology work for nearly every business. It’s great news, then, that cloud is also good for corporate IT spending....
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Don’t Let Data Growth Overwhelm Your Data Protection Solution
The scale of data and the pace of data growth today create vast challenges for data management and data protection. To ensure they can keep data safe and extract its value, businesses need to invest in data protection solutions that can cope with these new volumes of...
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AWS Backup Brings Cross-Account Data Protection
AWS Backup now supports cross-account management, enabling AWS customers to manage and monitor backups across their AWS accounts with AWS Organizations. With cross-account management in AWS Backup, customers can deploy an organization-wide backup plan from the...
read moreDisaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) Requires More Than Just Rapid Recovery
The promise of Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) is that you'll have the ability to nearly instantaneously recover data and applications after an outage—rapid recovery measured in minutes rather than hours. While that's the basic premise, when you evaluate any...
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Streamline A Delivery Pipeline with GCP Tools
Every IT project has two components: hardware and software. The cloud provides agility that helps meet the needs of both aspects. Because there are no procurement and provisioning delays, cloud helps businesses get any new hardware projects need quickly. On the...
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Does the Operating System Matter for DevOps?
Hardware is a solid foundation, but what makes workloads work is the softer, software foundation of the operating system. Your data center team will have opinions that you should listen to. What about your DevOps team? Does the operating system matter for what they...
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