by VAST | Jan 9, 2019 | Cloud Access Security, Cloud Management
With the huge success of the cloud—some surveys show cloud being used by 96 percent of respondents—the risks to information have exploded. Cloud obliterates the perimeter where most traditional data security efforts focused. New approaches are needed; that’s why...
by VAST | Jan 7, 2019 | Infrastructure, Multi-Cloud, Transformation
Old-school thinking is that secondary storage is unimportant. It can be safely ignored. The new way of thinking today is that secondary storage is vitally important to your digital transformation. Digital transformation relies on data, and there’s much more data...
by VAST | Jan 5, 2019 | Cloud Access Security, Cloud Management, Infrastructure
Does anyone still backup to tape? Turns out the answer is yes, lots of companies still use tape as a backup media. If your goal is 3-2-1 backup (keeping at least 3 copies of your data, storing them on at least 2 different types of storage, and keeping 1 of them off...
by VAST | Jan 3, 2019 | Amazon Web Services
Many of the biggest security threats on Amazon Web Services (AWS) come from misconfigurations. Default settings can leave resources publicly accessible and unprotected. These are the configuration errors you need to avoid: 1. Empowered root accounts Root accounts are...
by VAST | Dec 27, 2018 | Cloud Adoption and Migration, Cloud Management, Hybrid Cloud
Hybrid cloud can be the ideal cloud model for many businesses. The combination of private and public cloud provides the capacity on demand needed for disaster recovery or cloud bursting. As many as 75 percent of businesses are investigating what the hybrid cloud can...
