VAST Perspectives
Streamline A Delivery Pipeline With AWS Tools
One of the most hoped-for benefits of cloud technology is increased agility and the ability to deliver IT more quickly. The on-demand capability of the cloud provides one element of that agility. Without lengthy provisioning processes, you can access technology when...
Hyperconverged Infrastructure Lets You Build a Cloud in Your Data Center
When hyperconverged infrastructure first became popular, it was popular largely to support specific use cases. Have a remote office or want to support virtual desktop infrastructure? Hyperconverged infrastructure was (and remains) a great fit. But today,...
Do You Need A Backup and Recovery Strategy When You’re Deployed in Cloud?
Using cloud doesn’t eliminate the need to have a backup and recovery strategy. Reasons you need your own backup strategy include: • file versioning. A cloud provider creates backups that allow them to recover failed instances. They don’t keep historical versions of...
Don’t Let Multicloud Slow Down Your Deployments
Multiple clouds mean multiple ways of doing things. This is true for monitoring and for the day to operations of deploying and supporting your workloads in the cloud. The cloud’s reputation for agility means getting things done fast is even more of a goal than usual,...
Don’t Just Do Cloud. Do Cloud Right with a Plan.
“Just Do It” doesn’t apply to cloud. Cloud comes with a lot of benefits, as well as a lot of challenges, starting with how you migrate to cloud. Taking a systematic approach, crafting detailed plans based on a comprehensive strategy, and leveraging tools like...
Updating AWS RDS Certificates
As part of AWS’s standard security best practices for their Relational Database Service (RDS), a new certificate authority (CA) for RDS, Aurora and DocumentDB database instances is now available. The current CA expires on March 5, 2020, however, to avoid interruption...
3 Steps to Ensure Your IT is Ready for COVID-19
Many businesses are conducting an unplanned stress test of their disaster recovery and business continuity plans as the COVID-19 crisis forces non-essential employees to work from home. Remote access and virtual desktop infrastructure are key elements of that...
You Can’t Purchase a New Copy of Your Data, so Backup and Recovery Tools Are Business Insurance
Insurance is an important investment that protects you against risk. When it comes to business risks, you can’t buy insurance to guard against the loss of data. Instead, you need to build your own insurance with a robust backup and recovery strategy. Multiple Threats...
AWS Launches Activate Founders Package
AWS has launched the Activate Founders package, a new set of benefits specifically designed for bootstrapped startups. The package is being offered as part of the AWS Activate program and is open to founders and startups who have not yet raised any venture...
Data Breaches Are Expensive; A CASB Can Reduce the Risk
Using cloud technology can lead to reduced technology costs, but there’s often hesitation to use cloud because of concerns about information security. That’s no surprise, given the cost of a data breach: direct financial costs can reach millions of dollars, and that’s...
