VAST Perspectives
Use Security Lifecycle Review to Select Meaningful Security Metrics
Metrics are one of management’s most important tools, but only when the right metrics are chosen. Pick the wrong metrics, and you’ll spend a lot of time and money optimizing numbers that don’t really matter. The right metrics are the ones that align with business...
Cloud Cost Savings Don’t Come All at Once
There are many reasons for migrating to cloud. If the justification for your switch to cloud was cost savings, where do you find them? There’s a ““big bang” moment of cost savings from the transition to cloud. But it’s the ongoing expansion of cloud usage that leads...
AWS EBS CSI Driver Available
The Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver is now generally available. The EBS CSI driver makes it simple to configure and use block storage for applications running in both Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and self-managed...
3 Simplification Goals to Support Digital Transformation
Many organizations were forced to transform how they did business over the past year. Continuing with that growth and making transformations permanent requires looking at problems with new eyes to envision new solutions. One of the biggest ongoing challenges is the...
Cloud Challenges Don’t Stop When Migration Ends
By this point, most companies have become familiar with cloud and included it as an integral component of their IT strategy. Despite their increased experience with cloud, many companies continue to face challenges that prevent them from gaining the maximum benefit...
Use Azure Confidential Computing to Protect Data in Use in the Azure Cloud
Data protection is needed in three places—in transit, in rest, and in use. It’s relatively easy to protect data in transit and at rest through use of encryption, but protecting data while it’s being used hasn’t had a good solution. When data was used only within a...
Cloud Security is a Shared Responsibility. These AWS Tools Help You Meet Your Responsibility.
Looking for the source of security problems in the cloud? Don’t point fingers at the cloud provider. Security in the cloud is a shared responsibility, with both the cloud provider and the business user contributing to the security effort. Amazon Web Services provides...
Make the Right Decisions for Multicloud Success
Businesses used to be hesitant to adopt cloud. Now, not only is having a cloud important, having multiple clouds is essential. Multiple Reasons for Having Multiple Clouds There are several reasons businesses decide to use multiple clouds: Outages happen. Despite the...
Streamline Data Center Procedures with Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Should you introduce hyperconverged infrastructure into your data center? Many businesses are; Gartner has projected more than two-thirds of businesses using that technology by 2023. Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is a scalable, modular, software-defined...
AWS S3 Serverless Capability
Amazon recently launched S3 Object Lambda enabling users to add code to data retrieved from S3 storage. This allows the data to be processed before it reaches the application that called it, enabling use cases such as personally identifiable information (PII) masking,...
