VAST Perspectives
Get Ready to Transition to Hyperconverged Infrastructure
The benefits of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) include lower costs, greater agility, and simpler management. If you've made the decision to move to hyperconverged infrastructure, simplify your transition with these tips. 1. Choose the right hyperconverged...
A Hybrid Cloud Is Not Two Clouds
Thinking of hybrid cloud as two separate clouds is the wrong approach. You need to think of hybrid cloud as a single integrated solution, because integration is the key to making hybrid cloud work. While storage and data movement is often seen as the critical hybrid...
Will Serverless Save You Money?
The less infrastructure you manage, the less it costs. Seems natural, right? That's one reason for the trend towards serverless computing and Function as a Service (FaaS). Serverless is perhaps the purest implementation of cloud: you have no dedicated resources on...
Enhance Your Cloud Security With Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
Security considerations still keep many businesses from moving their infrastructure to the cloud. Private cloud alleviates those concerns, but requires building your own on-site cloud so you lose the advantage of the maintenance and support a cloud provider offers....
Be On the Lookout for These Sources of Unexpectedly High Cloud Bills
Achieving the cost savings you anticipate from the cloud doesn't come free. It requires planning your cloud properly, monitoring usage, and taking steps to manage and prevent unnecessary, excess costs. Be aware of these sources of potentially high costs so you can get...
Financial Services Organization Implements Bitglass
Most organizations use a mobile device management (MDM) toolset, whether 3rd party or built-in tools. Some organizations recognize that a single vendor’s solution may not meet all of their needs. dcVAST worked with one such customer, who had an...
Recovery Comes After Backups, But Recovery Thinking Comes Before Backup Planning
Before you start thinking about your backup tool selection and your backup schedule, start thinking about your backup strategy. There's more to effective backups than simply copying files. Today's data center, with mixed environments that include physical and virtual...
3 Hybrid Cloud Use Cases That Don’t Require Cloud Bursting
Cloud bursting has been difficult for many businesses to achieve. While the ability to share data and processing between on premises and public cloud resources offers a cost-effective method of coping with spikes in demand, establishing an environment that supports...
8 Ways Disaster Recovery as a Service Reduces the Impact of Downtime
Making disaster recovery processes reliable and repeatable is critical to business survival. The dependence of business operations on data means the financial costs of downtime are significant. Minimize those costs through automating your disaster recovery process as...
How Will You Minimize Your IT Downtime?
The costs of downtime continue to rise. One statistic claims that for nearly a quarter of survey respondents, the cost of server downtime was more than $300,000. That's per hour, not per incident. Reports also show that almost every business,...
