VAST Perspectives
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,...
Ignoring Data Privacy Regulations Can Be Very Costly
For businesses that need to decide how much to invest in their data privacy projects, enforcement trends are a key piece of data. The main data privacy regulation affecting business the past several years was GDPR, and enforcement is only toughening. There have been...
With New Data Privacy Legislation Pending, How Will You Protect Personal Data?
It’s a few years now since the European Union’s General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) went into effect, and data privacy continues to gain legislative attention in the United States. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) was effective 2020 and expanded later...
Reduce Hybrid Cloud Challenges with the Right Management Tool
Hybrid environments that include a mix of technology can be complex and difficult to understand and manage. Yet they’re often the best solution to when a business has diverse requirements. In order to implement a hybrid cloud or hybrid IT environment effectively,...
Facts and Falsehoods About Digital Transformation
Whether your company is executing carefully crafted plans for digital transformation or was forced into it when Covid-19 restrictions shut down workplaces, successfully completing digital transformation projects is always challenging. Misunderstanding what digital...
You Will Always Need a Data Center
You’ll never turn out the lights in your data center. Even if the company goal is “cloud only,” there are good reasons to keep some systems in-house: Data privacy regulations Firms that do business in multiple countries need to comply with the data privacy laws of...
5 Important Considerations for a Cloud Backup Strategy
Migrating to cloud changes many facets of IT operations, including how backups are handled. Existing backup strategies may not fit the cloud environment. Here are five things to consider when you design your cloud backup strategy: 1. The cost of moving data out of...
