VAST Perspectives
Avoid Disaster with Disaster Recovery as a Service
In today's era of digital transformation, online data and online applications don't just support a business: they are the business. That means that calling a computer outage or data loss a "disaster" isn't hyperbole; the consequences can truly be disastrous. Many...
Choosing the Right Cloud Archiving Service
In some ways, archiving online data is easier than archiving paper records. The storage is more compact and the data is more easily searched. Yet online archival still presents challenges for organizations. Without proper management, searching the data can be a...
Gain Control Over Data Lakes With Data Governance
Companies are drowning in data today. Data lakes pull in all kinds of data to preserve it for later analysis, including unstructured data, like comments in user forums, which would have previously been discarded. In many cases, big data projects start as small...
Choose the Right Cloud to Control Your Costs
One of the prime motivators for most businesses making the move to cloud is the chance to save money. It's true that you can always spin up another virtual machine (VM) and extend capacity on demand, but waiting until you need that capacity means accepting the time it...
Get the Benefits of Disaster Recovery As A Service
Do you have a solid backup process? Many companies haven't verified that their backup process is complete or tested how they can restore from their backup storage. But even companies that are sure their backups aren't missing critical files and have validated the...
Hyperconverged Infrastructure Supports High Availability and Data Protection
Hyperconverged infrastructure can help companies reduce their costs and simplify management of their data center. One of the ways it does this is due to built-in support for high availability and data protection. These systems typically provide a range of features...
More Than One Cloud May Be A Good Idea, But Needs Careful Planning for Success
In an attempt to gain the benefits of cloud while minimizing the risks, many companies end up with multiple clouds. This can be due to a desire to avoid vendor lock in and minimize the risks of downtime if a vendor has an outage; leverage special services offered by...
Hyperconverged Infrastructure Management is Easier With These Features
One of the promises of hyperconverged infrastructure is that the data center becomes easier to manage. Because the compute, storage, and networking elements are designed to work together, they can be viewed and managed as a single unit, rather than a set of possibly...
Address 6 Integration Challenges to Achieve Hybrid Cloud Success
The hybrid cloud is all about blending your on-premises equipment, data, and applications with equipment, data, and applications in the cloud. Optimizing the functioning of this hybrid cloud requires multiple levels of integration to allow your applications to run...
Don’t Let Copy Data Overwhelm Your Storage
Making copies of data has its benefits. Copies offer protection in case data is corrupted or lost, and copies let developers test new code on real data without putting the production database in danger. If copies were deleted when they were no longer needed, the...
