by VAST | Jul 27, 2020 | Cost Optimization, VAST View
Cloud bills are thick. Every individual item is charged, sometimes by the millisecond, and the charges vary month-to-month, too. As a result, it may be tempting just to pay the bill, rather than trying to understand the details. To manage cloud costs properly, though,...
by VAST | Jul 20, 2020 | Cloud Management, VAST View
Cloud is a metaphor, but it’s appropriate. Clouds in the sky block pilots’ vision and make navigating by instrument necessary. Cloud technology gets in the way of IT management’s view of technology and makes using new tools vital to ensure that cloud systems are...
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...
