VAST Perspectives
How Many Cloud Strategies Do You Have? You Need More Than One
The only way to make cloud a net benefit to your business is to have a strategy. Without one, it's easy to get distracted by all the bells and whistles and "as a Service" offerings. You can end up with a mixed grab bag of technologies that's as difficult to manage as...
Use Hyperconverged Secondary Storage to Build Your Hybrid Cloud and Reduce Data Sprawl
Secondary storage. The name makes it seem less important than primary workloads, less deserving of focused attention. That lack of focus means that secondary storage can become a primary challenge for data center operations teams. Secondary storage ends up using a mix...
Disaster Recovery as a Service Is The Most Important Cloud Service
There are all kinds of cloud services that benefit your business: storage, email, databases, and many more specialized application services that your business can leverage to reduce costs and increase competitiveness. But the most important cloud service for your...
3 Decisions For Success With Hybrid Cloud
Hybrid cloud means different things to different people. The "true" definition requires a public and private cloud coupled together, sharing the data and processing load for an organization. For more organizations, hybrid cloud simply means a mixed environment, where...
Get to Know Your Data to Meet New Privacy Regulations
Some studies show that companies don't know what half the data they store is. That means they can't use it to generate insights that support the business, potentially costing them growth opportunities. Now, with the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) set to...
5 Steps to GDPR Compliance
Next year brings a major new compliance regime into effect in the European Union. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will be effective starting May 2018. The regulation places strict rules around the collection, usage, and protection of personal data, with...
Three Steps to A Hybrid Cloud Solution
Building a hybrid cloud isn't a single project. Before you can integrate your private cloud with a public cloud, you have to have a private cloud. Since most companies don't have an existing private cloud, getting to hybrid cloud requires three major steps: first,...
Hyperconverged Infrastructure Can Help Operations Teams Manage Big Data
As companies collect more and more data to support big data analytics, they run the risk of overloading their operations. This isn't just an issue of having the capacity to store all that data; it's also about having the capacity to manage all that data, including...
Hyperconverged Infrastructure Supports Digital Transformation
Almost every company is now working on a digital transformation. This means that data is no longer just a by-product of business processes. The generated data informs smart business decisions, supports new product development, and in some cases becomes a product...
Two Alternatives That Simplify Running A Private Cloud
Companies get several benefits from using the public cloud: expert management of their technical infrastructure; low costs and pay-for-use servers; high availability; and easy scalability. For companies that don't quite trust the public cloud to keep their mission...
