by VAST | Jan 11, 2018 | Business Continuity, Hybrid Cloud
Backing up virtual machines (VMs) requires choosing an appropriate strategy. It’s possible to back them up similarly to the way physical servers are backed up, but that isn’t an optimal solution. The characteristics of virtual machines offer alternative...
by VAST | Jan 6, 2018 | Multi-Cloud
More and more companies are finding themselves using more than one cloud vendor. Using multiple cloud vendors reduces risk by adding redundancy and reducing vendor lock-in. Companies may also need multiple clouds to satisfy data sovereignty regulations that require...
by VAST | Jan 3, 2018 | Professional Services, Security
The deadline for GDPR compliance is May 25, 2018. Many companies are feverishly working to get appropriate data protection policies and tools in place. The bigger issue is that maintaining compliance isn’t just a matter of putting technology in place. In order...
by VAST | Dec 28, 2017 | Infrastructure, Professional Services, Transformation
Nearly everyone uses hyperconverged infrastructure, or plans to. A survey by InteropITX found that only 20 percent of survey respondents had no plans for using hyperconverged infrastructure. The ease of support and scalability are benefits businesses can’t...
by VAST | Dec 23, 2017 | Business Continuity
Satisfying business needs for minimal downtime is a challenge for most IT teams. Despite tight recovery point and recovery time objectives (RPOs and RTOs), restoring operations often takes longer than the business’ goals. Some studies show backup success at only...