VAST Perspectives
Transferring Data Between Multiple Clouds? What’s Your Data Governance Strategy?
There’s no end to the deluge of data. Now that businesses are increasingly adopting a multicloud technology strategy, implementing data governance is growing in importance. There are many challenges to controlling data in multicloud: • Data is created in multiple...
Choose the Right Technology to Reduce Security Risks in the Cloud
Cloud changes some of the risks to your data’s security. Some of the traditional defenses still apply, but there’s also new technology that you’ll want to consider using to keep your data safe. Risks to Data Security in the Cloud Risks to data in the cloud come from...
Oracle Cloud: Choose Cloud Your DBAs Will Love
One of the many reasons companies have for choosing cloud is to free up their IT teams. Because the cloud provider handles many routine operations and support functions, your own IT team can concentrate on performing functions that add business value. You can choose...
Data Privacy Isn’t Just a European Trend
For businesses in the United States, GDPR was an eye-opener. It highlighted how different the EU attitude towards data privacy was from that at home. But that difference is getting smaller. Attitudes in the United States are shifting and getting closer to the European...
Making Multi-Cloud Work Starts With Strategy
Standardizing on a single technology solution sounds good in theory, but in practice, it means compromising on a solution that's "good enough" for every application but optimized for none of them. Selecting multiple solutions lets you match every application with the...
Monitor Cloud Spending as Well as Cloud Performance
In traditional data centers, monitoring is primarily about addressing operational concerns: making sure servers and applications are up and there's enough memory and storage capacity to meet the demand. Once you migrate your workloads to the cloud, monitoring changes....
Digital Transformation Isn’t Just About Technology
Big transformations take time and dedication. Caterpillars seal themselves off in a cocoon for days to develop into butterflies. You can’t seal your business off from the outside world, and unlike the caterpillar’s transformation, the digital transformation process...
Cloud Creates Multiple Visibility Challenges
Just as in real life, many of the problems clouds cause are due to the limited visibility clouds create. Clouds Block Your View of the Network The cloud hinders your view of the network in two ways. First, clouds make it harder to define the network perimeter...
Use Storage Analytics to Meet Modern Storage Management Challenges
The amount of data generated by business every day continues to grow. Because big data and analytics projects find value in every byte, all that data needs to be kept longer than ever. Managing that volume is one of the biggest challenges facing IT teams. Storage...
Don’t Miss Important End of Support Dates
Does your data have an expiration date? If not, it’s important to be aware that your backup software does. Backup Exec version 15.x, Backup Exec Appliance version 3600 R4, and all associated agents, components and other options, reach their end of support life date on...
