VAST Perspectives
IaaS and PaaS Solve Different Problems
There are three main flavors of "as a Service" (aaS) information technology (IT) offerings on the market: Software as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Infrastructure as a Service. For corporate data centers, achieving the benefits you want from aaS products...
Can You Manage Your Data Center Without Thinking About Servers?
Simplifying server management started by reducing the number of servers in the data center. With the introduction of virtual machines (VMs), a "server" didn't have to correspond to a device in the data center; one physical server could host multiple virtual machines....
Leverage Storage Administrator Knowledge After Switching to Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Whenever there's a technology change, there's a human impact. When you plan to bring a new technology into your data center, you need to consider how it will affect the operations team that monitors and manages that technology. That's even truer for hyperconverged...
3 Steps to Getting the Hybrid Cloud Performance You Need
While many tasks are simpler in a cloud-based infrastructure, a few become more complex. Performance monitoring in a hybrid cloud requires monitoring the individual and combined functioning of two distinct environments. Performance in a hybrid cloud comes from...
3 Business Benefits of Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Technical decisions should never be driven by technical factors alone. Technology needs to fit within the context of the business, including how it conducts its current operations, the types of products and services it sells, the nature of its customers, and the...
You’re Probably Not As Prepared For GDPR As You Think You Are
When the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect in May 2018, it will impact companies worldwide, not just in EU countries. Any company that stores data on EU citizens needs to comply with the regulation, which includes requirements...
Fully Integrate Network Management With Hyperconverged Infrastructure from Nutanix
Hyperconverged infrastructure brings servers and storage together into a single integrated appliance, simplifying monitoring and management. Along with the push to cloud, hyperconverged infrastructure supports the ability to make rapid changes to servers and workloads...
Connecting the Cloud and Legacy Applications
There's one big problem that most businesses face moving to the cloud. That's the problem that not all their applications belong in a public cloud. That can lead companies to think they need to build a hybrid cloud. But there's also the problem that some applications...
5 Reasons Why Hyperconverged Infrastructure Should Be the Foundation of Your Hybrid Cloud
Hybrid clouds are half easy, half hard. The easy part is the public cloud—with that, you find a cloud provider and leverage their services. The hard part is what makes it hybrid: the private cloud in your own data center. The whole impetus towards public cloud is that...
7 Things to Think About Before Switching to Infrastructure as a Service
Are you planning to make the switch to Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)? Not only are you not alone, you're already behind: almost two-thirds of companies IDC surveyed last year expected to use IaaS by the end of 2016. IaaS gives you the same physical infrastructure...
