by VAST | Oct 13, 2020 | Veritas
While we haven’t achieved the nirvana of the paperless office yet, it’s true there are no longer stacks of paper overflowing desks and jamming file cabinet drawers open. Instead, all that data that used to be on paper is now overflowing email inboxes and storage...
by VAST | Aug 3, 2020 | Cloud, Data Protection
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...
by VAST | Jul 27, 2020 | Cost Optimization, VAST View
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,...
by VAST | Jul 20, 2020 | Cloud Management, VAST View
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...
by VAST | Apr 20, 2020 | Cloud, Data Protection
Using cloud doesn’t eliminate the need to have a backup and recovery strategy. Reasons you need your own backup strategy include: • file versioning. A cloud provider creates backups that allow them to recover failed instances. They don’t keep historical versions of...
