by VAST | Jul 7, 2018 | Business Continuity, Infrastructure
Before you start thinking about your backup tool selection and your backup schedule, start thinking about your backup strategy. There’s more to effective backups than simply copying files. Today’s data center, with mixed environments that include physical...
by VAST | Jul 3, 2018 | Business Continuity
Making disaster recovery processes reliable and repeatable is critical to business survival. The dependence of business operations on data means the financial costs of downtime are significant. Minimize those costs through automating your disaster recovery process as...
by VAST | Jul 1, 2018 | Business Continuity
The costs of downtime continue to rise. One statistic claims that for nearly a quarter of survey respondents, the cost of server downtime was more than $300,000. That’s per hour, not per incident. Reports also show that almost every...
by VAST | Jun 18, 2018 | Business Continuity
When everything works right, your backup process is invisible. Jobs automatically run to successful completion. The restore process is never as invisible as backups, because the restore process is never routine. The best you can hope for is to make the recovery...
by VAST | Jun 9, 2018 | Business Continuity, Cloud Management
Cloud-based backup solutions are a good choice for many organizations, but making the process easy, efficient, and secure requires careful planning. These are some questions you should think through before you start backing up to the cloud: How much will it cost to...
by VAST | Jun 2, 2018 | Business Continuity, Infrastructure
The cloud offers high resiliency, but it isn’t perfect: read the service level agreement closely and you’ll see the guaranteed uptime isn’t 100%. Even big cloud providers like Amazon Web Services have had outages causing widespread impacts on...
