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...
by VAST | May 27, 2018 | Business Continuity
Big data is no longer optional for business. Forbes reported that 79 percent of executives think that companies that don’t pursue big data will face tough challenges, possibly even being driven out of business. Companies that don’t want to meet...
by VAST | May 22, 2018 | Business Continuity, Professional Services
Data centers are being remade with new technology. Virtualization and the cloud have fundamentally changed the way servers and data are managed, while the 24×7 internet and analytics have monumentally increased the importance of those servers and data. Has your...
