VAST Perspectives
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,...
Webinar: Next Gen Cloud Security – How to Protect Your Data
The top concern for organizations moving to the cloud – security. While many businesses turn to the cloud as a destination for their backups and to provide disaster recovery (DR) capability, using the cloud doesn’t mean companies don’t need their own data...
Backup Decisions Need to Consider the Recovery Process
When everything works right, your backup process is invisible. Jobs automatically run to successful completion. The restore process is never as invisible as backups, because the restore process is never routine. The best you can hope for is to make the recovery...
Solve the IT Challenge in Remote Offices With Hyperconverged Infrastructure
A big business can have lots of small offices, each needing information technology services. Providing the IT support they need effectively without maintaining an on-site presence in each location is challenging. Using hyperconverged infrastructure can help...
Questions You Should Ask Before Choosing Cloud Backup
Cloud-based backup solutions are a good choice for many organizations, but making the process easy, efficient, and secure requires careful planning. These are some questions you should think through before you start backing up to the cloud: How much will it cost to...
Build a Resilient Architecture That Handles Cloud Outages
The cloud offers high resiliency, but it isn't perfect: read the service level agreement closely and you'll see the guaranteed uptime isn't 100%. Even big cloud providers like Amazon Web Services have had outages causing widespread impacts on businesses. Amazon's...
Ask These Questions Before You Migrate Your Database to the Cloud
The conversation about migrating databases to the cloud tends to focus on the mechanics of getting your data to the cloud. That's jumping the gun. Before talking about how to move the data, you should talk about whether you should move the...
5 Key Questions That Should Determine Your Big Data Storage Strategy
Big data is no longer optional for business. Forbes reported that 79 percent of executives think that companies that don't pursue big data will face tough challenges, possibly even being driven out of business. Companies that don't want to meet that fate...
