VAST Perspectives
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...
Get Past the Challenges of Adopting Infrastructure as a Service
Cloud is taking over the data center. A study by Cisco found that within the next three years, 94 percent of workloads will be processed in the cloud. Much of that usage will be Software as a Service (SaaS), a subscription-based model where applications run...
Use Secondary Storage to Find More Value in Your Backed Up Data
Do you think of your archived backup data as a waste of space? It's time to change your perspective: backup data is the most important data you have. Far from not being useful, it's the most complete record of your business you have. With the right secondary storage...
Seven Ways to Start Managing Cloud Costs During Your Cloud Migration
The benefits of using infrastructure in the cloud include financial benefits—if you manage your cloud computing wisely. The time to start managing your cloud costs is when you start planning your migration. Be sure you evaluate these factors to keep the costs of your...
Use Hyperconverged Infrastructure to Simplify Data Protection
When a business undergoes digital transformation, its data becomes critical to every business process. Protecting that data is crucial to ensure that the business is able to function, and data recovery needs to be rapid to minimize disruption to the business'...
Coping With the Challenges of a Complex, Hybrid IT Environment
Every IT environment today is a hybrid IT environment. There's a complex technical mix of operating systems, databases, clouds, and endpoints. There are real benefits from this blend, but there are also real challenges that need to be addressed: 1. Securing data that...
5 Challenges in Keeping Hybrid Cloud Data Safe
The defining characteristic of hybrid cloud is the need for data to be transferred between public and private clouds on an ongoing basis. That means choosing the right data transfer methods and providing complete data transfer security are essential for data...
Do You Need a New Backup Strategy?
No matter how effective a technology is, there comes a time when it no longer meets the business' needs and needs to be replaced by a newer, better technology. Is your backup strategy reaching its expiration date? Here's how to tell. Backup and restore times take too...
Enterprise Vault and Office 365, Part 2: Three Ways to Use Enterprise Vault and Office 365 Together
We talked in Part 1 about how the features in Veritas Enterprise Vault offer more comprehensive and flexible eDiscovery and data protection features than are available in Microsoft Office 365. Here we take a look at the three ways to use Enterprise Vault together with...
Enterprise Vault and Office 365, Part 1: Five Reasons to Use Enterprise Vault to Manage Data in Office 365
Maintaining control of your data is important even when it's stored in the cloud. While cloud providers like Office 365 offer services for backup, archiving, and eDiscovery, those services don't keep you in control of your data or provide the flexibility and...
