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...
by Michael Boehl | Apr 13, 2020 | Amazon Web Services, Cloud, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, Multi-Cloud
Multiple clouds mean multiple ways of doing things. This is true for monitoring and for the day to operations of deploying and supporting your workloads in the cloud. The cloud’s reputation for agility means getting things done fast is even more of a goal than usual,...
by Michael Boehl | Apr 6, 2020 | Cloud, Cloud Migration, Cloud Planning
“Just Do It” doesn’t apply to cloud. Cloud comes with a lot of benefits, as well as a lot of challenges, starting with how you migrate to cloud. Taking a systematic approach, crafting detailed plans based on a comprehensive strategy, and leveraging tools like...
by Michael Boehl | Mar 30, 2020 | Amazon Web Services, Cloud, Security
As part of AWS’s standard security best practices for their Relational Database Service (RDS), a new certificate authority (CA) for RDS, Aurora and DocumentDB database instances is now available. The current CA expires on March 5, 2020, however, to avoid interruption...
by Michael Boehl | Mar 27, 2020 | Amazon Web Services, Business Continuity, Cloud, Cohesity, Data Protection, Google Cloud Platform, Infrastructure, Microsoft Azure, Multi-Cloud, Veeam
Many businesses are conducting an unplanned stress test of their disaster recovery and business continuity plans as the COVID-19 crisis forces non-essential employees to work from home. Remote access and virtual desktop infrastructure are key elements of that...
by Michael Boehl | Mar 17, 2020 | CASB, Cloud, Cloud Access Security
Using cloud technology can lead to reduced technology costs, but there’s often hesitation to use cloud because of concerns about information security. That’s no surprise, given the cost of a data breach: direct financial costs can reach millions of dollars, and that’s...
