VAST Perspectives
Build Your Microsoft Environment in the Amazon Web Services Cloud
For many businesses, Microsoft products form the foundation of their infrastructure and core application technology. That means taking advantage of the benefits of the cloud requires finding a way to use these products in the cloud. Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides...
Complex Environments Shouldn’t Mean Complex Disaster Recovery
The technical infrastructure used by most businesses today is both more complex and more critical than ever. Environments are a mix of physical servers, virtual machines, and public, private, and hybrid clouds. The functions they provide are integrated tightly into...
Do You Have a Modern Backup Strategy?
Backup is no longer as simple as copying files to tape and sending them to off-site storage. Because businesses depend so heavily on data, backups need to support high availability and rapid recovery, scale to offer high performance even as Big Data grows and grows,...
7 Tips for Keeping Your Hybrid Cloud Secure and Compliant
As hybrid cloud growth continues to grow, companies need to increase their efforts to ensure security and compliance policies apply to data and applications in the cloud. While using hybrid cloud for disaster recovery introduces limited challenges, more sophisticated...
Six Ways Hyperconverged Infrastructure Saves You Money
Saving money and using resources more efficiently and effectively are constant imperatives in data centers. Introducing hyperconverged infrastructure can help you reduce the complexity, streamline your operations, and increase agility, yielding considerable cost...
Can Office 365 Meet Your eDiscovery Needs?
Increasing volumes of data and increasing volumes of compliance regulations are accelerating both the importance of eDiscovery and the challenges of managing the eDiscovery process. Solutions that look simple, like using the eDiscovery features available in Office...
dcVAST and United Airlines to Host IT Security Webinar
dcVAST will host a webinar to discuss how United Airlines was able to reduce its patching deployments from months down to days and eliminate IT security risks. This free webinar scheduled for Thursday, April 5, 2018, at 1:00 P.M. CST will...
Don’t Let Configuration Errors Expose Your Data in the Cloud
Security in the cloud is a partnership between you and the cloud provider. Cloud providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS) offer many features to ensure the security of the services they offer, including environments certified to meet compliance standards...
New Features Offer Good Reasons to Upgrade to NetBackup 8.1.1
Installing the latest application releases is important for keeping up with security fixes and new features. This is especially true for fundamental services like backups, particularly as digital transformation increases your business's reliance on its data...
Planning to Test Your Disaster Recovery Plan
Since most businesses don't even write a disaster recovery (DR) plan, you're definitely ahead of the game if you've gone ahead and created written documentation. Problem is, there's a good chance the plan you wrote doesn't work: it's missing applications, it's missing...
