by Michael Boehl | Jan 21, 2020 | CASB, Discovery and Assessment, Palo Alto, Security, VAST View
Information security doesn’t happen by throwing together a random set of tools. Information security happens after you develop a deep understanding of your data and IT resources, their value, and their vulnerabilities, and you use that understanding to develop a...
by Michael Boehl | Jan 7, 2020 | Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Multi-Cloud, VAST View
When you choose to deliberately implement a complex IT architecture such as multicloud, you want to be sure to get it right. Multicloud can bring a number of challenging issues to be addressed. Multicloud and Vendor Lock-in For many businesses, multicloud is the...
by Michael Boehl | Dec 24, 2019 | CASB, Discovery and Assessment, Palo Alto, Security, VAST View
Cloud changes some of the risks to your data’s security. Some of the traditional defenses still apply, but there’s also new technology that you’ll want to consider using to keep your data safe. Risks to Data Security in the Cloud Risks to data in the cloud come from...
by Michael Boehl | Nov 25, 2019 | Cloud Spend, Optimization, Orchestration, VAST View
In traditional data centers, monitoring is primarily about addressing operational concerns: making sure servers and applications are up and there’s enough memory and storage capacity to meet the demand. Once you migrate your workloads to the cloud, monitoring...
by Michael Boehl | Nov 18, 2019 | Business Continuity, Discovery and Assessment, Professional Services, VAST View
Big transformations take time and dedication. Caterpillars seal themselves off in a cocoon for days to develop into butterflies. You can’t seal your business off from the outside world, and unlike the caterpillar’s transformation, the digital transformation process...
by Michael Boehl | Nov 11, 2019 | Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, VAST View
Just as in real life, many of the problems clouds cause are due to the limited visibility clouds create. Clouds Block Your View of the Network The cloud hinders your view of the network in two ways. First, clouds make it harder to define the network perimeter...
