VAST Perspectives
3 Ways Data Governance Benefits Your Bottom Line
There is an ever-increasing alphabet soup of regulations that place controls on how businesses protect and utilize data. The data governance teams that form as a result are an unavoidable cost of doing business in the digital age. Fortunately, data governance isn't...
5 Changes to Plan for When Switching to Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Gaining the benefits of hyperconverged infrastructure requires more than plugging it in. Using hyperconverged infrastructure effectively requires rethinking your approach to how you manage your data center. 1. Changes to your staff Hyperconverged infrastructure means...
Avoid Big Data’s Big Risks with a Data Governance Strategy
As Big Data continues to grow, businesses are becoming more dependent than ever on data to inform the decisions they make. That makes ensuring the quality of that data more important as well, and requires good data governance to ensure data integrity and security....
5 Reasons to Put Your Development Environment in the Cloud
Many businesses that are considering adopting cloud decide to test its capabilities with their development and test environments. This is a great way to try out cloud; you'll become familiar with the cloud and experience its benefits without risking production...
Hyperconverged Infrastructure from Nutanix Can Increase Your Network Security
There are many aspects to data security, but overall they boil down to knowing and controlling who has access to it. Firewalls and perimeter-based security try to keep intruders out, but intruders inevitably break in or are let in when employees fall for phishing...
The Reasons and Risks of Multiple Clouds
Some companies struggle with cloud, hesitating to add any cloud into their technology mix. Others accept and embrace cloud to the point of having multiple clouds. Multi-cloud isn't a hybrid cloud configuration with one public and one private cloud; it's having...
Slow Recovery from Backups Is No Longer an Option
Online systems and data are intricately woven through today's businesses. Sales can't be closed, products can't be designed, and decisions can't be made without access to data and applications. That's why minimizing downtime and achieving rapid recovery from outages...
Hybrid Cloud Means Data Is In Multiple Separate Environments
One of the promises of cloud is that it makes data accessible from anywhere, potentially breaking down the data silos that limit companies' ability to get the most value from their data. Yet if not used carefully, cloud can perversely result in creating even more data...
Migrating to Cloud Means Planning How to Handle Your Applications, Data, and Network
Moving to the cloud isn't about replicating your existing environment and dropping in your applications. A true cloud migration requires designing a completely new architecture and adapting your applications, data, and operational and management procedures to the new...
5 Storage Problems You Can Solve With Hyperconverged Infrastructure
It's often the case that one technology can solve multiple problems. This is particularly true for hyperconverged infrastructure, which is a technical solution that brings together multiple technologies—compute, storage, and network—into a single unit. The primary...
