VAST Perspectives
7 Questions to Ask Before Choosing a Disaster Recovery as a Service Provider
Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) can make it easier for your organization to recover after a disaster. By using a cloud-based recovery service, you have accessible backups plus support that helps you restore operations. As you evaluate whether a specific DRaaS...
Moving Data Is Today’s Biggest Data Management Challenge
Data has become central to business success today as businesses use data and analytics to drive both operations and strategic decision-making. At the same time, the data itself has become more scattered and it's become challenging to use it effectively. The useful...
Finding Backup Solutions That Work for Your Physical and Virtual Servers
Backing up virtual machines (VMs) requires choosing an appropriate strategy. It's possible to back them up similarly to the way physical servers are backed up, but that isn't an optimal solution. The characteristics of virtual machines offer alternative approaches to...
5 Tips for Making Multiple Clouds Manageable
More and more companies are finding themselves using more than one cloud vendor. Using multiple cloud vendors reduces risk by adding redundancy and reducing vendor lock-in. Companies may also need multiple clouds to satisfy data sovereignty regulations that require...
Build a Compliance Culture to Make Sure You Meet GDPR’s Mandate
The deadline for GDPR compliance is May 25, 2018. Many companies are feverishly working to get appropriate data protection policies and tools in place. The bigger issue is that maintaining compliance isn't just a matter of putting technology in place. In order to keep...
Both Hyperconverged Infrastructure and Disaggregation Can Simplify Data Center Management
Nearly everyone uses hyperconverged infrastructure, or plans to. A survey by InteropITX found that only 20 percent of survey respondents had no plans for using hyperconverged infrastructure. The ease of support and scalability are benefits businesses can't overlook....
Choose the Right Approach to Meeting Recovery Objectives
Satisfying business needs for minimal downtime is a challenge for most IT teams. Despite tight recovery point and recovery time objectives (RPOs and RTOs), restoring operations often takes longer than the business' goals. Some studies show backup success at only 80...
Disaster Recovery as a Service Helps Businesses Respond to Opportunities, Not Just Disasters
Creating backups is one of those tasks that sounds simple in theory but becomes much more complicated once you get started. Identifying everything that needs to be backed up is one thing; successfully backing everything up so that you can restore a consistent view of...
Get Ready for Hybrid Cloud By Planning for These 5 Challenges
Planning to use hybrid cloud? Get your data center ready by preparing for these 5 challenges. 1. Network The network is a challenge for any cloud deployment, with your wide area network (WAN) connections critical for connecting to your cloud provider. Using public...
Use Amazon’s Tools to Monitor Amazon Web Services Infrastructure
It's important to monitor your Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment to make sure that you get the performance you need, security is maintained, and developers are able to be productive. AWS provides numerous tools that let you stay on top of your cloud; most can be...
