VAST Perspectives
Additional Data Doesn’t Have to Require Additional Storage
Would you build an addition to your house when you ran out of closet space? Of course not; you’d sort through your closet and discard items that are old or duplicates. You might buy one of those storage bags that vacuums out the air to compress the space required. Yet...
5 Cost Benefits of Cloud
There are many facets to cloud: public, private, hybrid, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and more. The many technical options means there’s a way to make cloud technology work for nearly every business. It’s great news, then, that cloud is also good for corporate IT spending....
Don’t Let Data Growth Overwhelm Your Data Protection Solution
The scale of data and the pace of data growth today create vast challenges for data management and data protection. To ensure they can keep data safe and extract its value, businesses need to invest in data protection solutions that can cope with these new volumes of...
AWS Backup Brings Cross-Account Data Protection
AWS Backup now supports cross-account management, enabling AWS customers to manage and monitor backups across their AWS accounts with AWS Organizations. With cross-account management in AWS Backup, customers can deploy an organization-wide backup plan from the...
Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) Requires More Than Just Rapid Recovery
The promise of Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) is that you'll have the ability to nearly instantaneously recover data and applications after an outage—rapid recovery measured in minutes rather than hours. While that's the basic premise, when you evaluate any...
Streamline A Delivery Pipeline with GCP Tools
Every IT project has two components: hardware and software. The cloud provides agility that helps meet the needs of both aspects. Because there are no procurement and provisioning delays, cloud helps businesses get any new hardware projects need quickly. On the...
Does the Operating System Matter for DevOps?
Hardware is a solid foundation, but what makes workloads work is the softer, software foundation of the operating system. Your data center team will have opinions that you should listen to. What about your DevOps team? Does the operating system matter for what they...
5 Ways Your Cloud Provider Doesn’t Protect Your Data
If you’re planning to rely on your cloud provider to protect your data, you’re placing your business at risk. You can count on your cloud provider to take steps to provide physical security of the infrastructure, and, depending on your cloud model, they may apply...
Conduent’s Maven Disease Management Platform on AWS
Conduent, a New Jersey-based business process services and solutions provider, announced the availability of its Maven platform on AWS. The platform was recently updated with a new module specifically designed to track and report on cases of COVID-19. Maven is a...
AWS COVID-19 Data Lake
AWS has set up a large data lake employing S3 storage buckets filled with information and resources on COVID-19 to help medical researchers in the fight against the global pandemic. Making sense of many disparate data sets is critical for researchers to find ways to...
