Consider These Business Benefits of Hyperconverged Infrastructure

by VAST | Feb 19, 2019 | Infrastructure, Managed Services

Technology decisions are complex because they need to be evaluated from two perspectives. First, does the technology meet the technical requirements? And second, does the technology provide value to the business? Hyperconverged infrastructure helps companies solve...

7 Priorities for Cloud in 2019

by VAST | Jan 29, 2019 | Cloud Management, Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, Multi-Cloud

Cloud has become the infrastructure of choice for information technology in many companies. Where should your cloud effort go this year? Multi-cloud. If one cloud is good, is more than one cloud better? More companies are adopting multi-cloud solutions to take...

Use Secondary Storage to Drive Digital Transformation

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...

Keep Tape If You Want, But Use the Cloud for Backups Too

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...

Understanding and Supporting Hyperconverged Network Demands

by VAST | Dec 18, 2018 | Infrastructure

When evaluating the impact of hyperconverged infrastructure on your data center, it’s important to remember that hyperconverged infrastructure affects your network as well as your servers and storage. Hyperconverged Infrastructure Requires Virtualization...

Keep Backups Boring

by VAST | Dec 15, 2018 | Infrastructure, Managed Services

No one thinks making backups is an exciting use of technology. People think backups are routine and boring, and they aren’t given much attention. That’s probably a fair assessment, most of the time. You know when backups stop being boring? When you need to...