VAST Perspectives
Cloud Should Be a Strategic Choice, Not a Default Decision
It’s easy to get locked into a technology, but it’s better to consider your options. Cloud first shouldn’t mean cloud only, and when you do pick cloud, it doesn’t necessarily have to be the public cloud. Pick Cloud for the Right Reasons Although cost is always a...
5 Areas to Evaluate When You Design A Cloud Security Strategy
Information security doesn’t happen by throwing together a random set of tools. Information security happens after you develop a deep understanding of your data and IT resources, their value, and their vulnerabilities, and you use that understanding to develop a...
Connected Hybrid Cloud Systems Introduce New Security Challenges
Any time a business introduces cloud, it introduces new security considerations. Those new considerations are magnified with hybrid cloud, because your internal systems and cloud systems aren’t separate any longer. • More connections mean more points to attack. The...
Multicloud Brings Multiple Challenges
When you choose to deliberately implement a complex IT architecture such as multicloud, you want to be sure to get it right. Multicloud can bring a number of challenging issues to be addressed. Multicloud and Vendor Lock-in For many businesses, multicloud is the...
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....
