VAST Perspectives
7 Priorities for Cloud in 2019
Cloud has become the infrastructure of choice for information technology in many companies. Where should your cloud effort go this year? Multi-cloud. If one cloud is good, is more than one cloud better? More companies are adopting multi-cloud solutions to take...
Digital Transformation Requires Security Transformation
Digital transformation is almost entirely about data. You need to generate and collect more data; use it more often; use it in more places; and use it faster. As a result, data security needs to be a big part of any transformation project. Despite that, security is...
Tackle Cloud Security Challenges in 2019
Cloud security continues to be one of the most important issues for companies that adopt this technology. The threats to data and applications in the cloud continue to evolve as technology changes and hackers continually become more sophisticated. New Security...
Increase Your Cloud Security With a CASB
With the huge success of the cloud—some surveys show cloud being used by 96 percent of respondents—the risks to information have exploded. Cloud obliterates the perimeter where most traditional data security efforts focused. New approaches are needed; that's why...
Use Secondary Storage to Drive Digital Transformation
Old-school thinking is that secondary storage is unimportant. It can be safely ignored. The new way of thinking today is that secondary storage is vitally important to your digital transformation. Digital transformation relies on data, and there's much more data on...
Keep Tape If You Want, But Use the Cloud for Backups Too
Does anyone still backup to tape? Turns out the answer is yes, lots of companies still use tape as a backup media. If your goal is 3-2-1 backup (keeping at least 3 copies of your data, storing them on at least 2 different types of storage, and keeping 1 of them off...
Be Alert for these Dangerous Amazon Web Service Configuration Errors
Many of the biggest security threats on Amazon Web Services (AWS) come from misconfigurations. Default settings can leave resources publicly accessible and unprotected. These are the configuration errors you need to avoid: 1. Empowered root accounts Root accounts are...
Overcome Key Obstacles to Building A Hybrid Cloud
Hybrid cloud can be the ideal cloud model for many businesses. The combination of private and public cloud provides the capacity on demand needed for disaster recovery or cloud bursting. As many as 75 percent of businesses are investigating what the hybrid cloud can...
Are You Getting the Cloud Results You Expected?
The decision to adopt cloud is based on assessing your goals, the perceived benefits of cloud, and the potential risks and costs. Once you’ve completed the move to cloud, it's important to assess whether you're getting the results you hoped for. Metrics for Assessing...
Understanding and Supporting Hyperconverged Network Demands
When evaluating the impact of hyperconverged infrastructure on your data center, it's important to remember that hyperconverged infrastructure affects your network as well as your servers and storage. Hyperconverged Infrastructure Requires Virtualization...
