VAST Perspectives
AWS LightSail Containers
Amazon Lightsail is by far the easiest way to get started on AWS. It allows you to get your application running on your own virtual server in a matter of minutes. AWS has now added the capability of deploying container-based workloads on Amazon Lightsail. Container...
Choosing a Cloud Provider Shouldn’t be Based on a Coin Toss
There are three major cloud providers: Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure. All provide high-quality, robust cloud services, and VAST IT Services provides support for all three cloud providers. Businesses need to choose which cloud provider...
How Much Will Ransomware Cost Your Business? 7 Ways the Costs Mount Up.
Ransomware can be an expensive problem. One study showed the average cost of remediating a ransomware attack in the US is more than $622,000. Of course, costs can go much higher; the costs of recovery from a ransomware attack on the city of Atlanta were expected to...
Preserve Collaboration Data for Compliance and eDiscovery with Merge1 and Veritas
As a result of the increase in remote working this past year, businesses are using collaboration tools more heavily than ever. These communications are subject to regulatory and compliance retention requirements, such as those applied to the financial and healthcare...
Build Your Hybrid Cloud with These Tools from Leading Cloud Providers
Public cloud relies on large-scale, flexible infrastructure supported by a vendor. It’s difficult for businesses to achieve the benefits of hybrid and private cloud use cases due to the difficulty of implementing cloud in the data center. Now that all three major...
Backups Can’t Protect Against Ransomware If They’re Corrupted by Ransomware
If ransomware infiltrates your data center, your backups are your best chance to restore uncorrupted data. That ability disappears if the ransomware has managed to encrypt the backup media or if the backup process isn’t effective. How can a business ensure its backups...
3 Critical Questions to Guide Your Multicloud Strategy
Many, if not most businesses, will end up with multiple cloud providers. In order to make the multicloud environment successful, businesses should investigate three key questions. 1. Why do you need a multicloud environment? There’s more than one justification for...
AWS EBS Block Express
AWS quadruples per-volume maximum capacity and performance on io2 volumes. On December 1st, 2020 AWS announced availability, in preview, of io2 Block Express volumes that are designed to deliver up to 4x higher throughput, IOPS, and capacity than io2 volumes, while...
7 Reasons to Pick Linux over Windows
Operating systems have a big impact on data centers and developers. When it comes to operating systems, there are two main choices: Windows and Linux. After evaluating the two, it becomes clear there are many reasons to prefer Linux: 1. Lower cost of ownership. Linux...
3 Ways Microsoft Azure Helps You Deliver Higher Quality Applications
Cloud choices make an impact throughout an IT organization—the data center, operations, and development teams all need to adapt to changes. With proper training, they can leverage the new technology to streamline and improve the quality of their IT service. That’s...
