VAST Perspectives
Questions to Ask Before You Implement Your Hybrid Cloud
With hybrid cloud adoption continuing to grow—MarketsandMarkets estimates an annual increase of 22.5 percent through 2021—companies need to carefully review the technology and to make smart design decisions for integrating public and private clouds. The review needs...
Nbpem Connection Errors in NetBackup 7.7.x and 8.0
Problem: Nbpem may crash after changing policy schedule type from Calendar to Frequency Solution: The workaround is to be aware of the appropriate values in the schedule. Ultimately, delete the policy to get nbpem to load. Here is a step by step recap: 8 RMAN jobs...
Understanding Your Data Is a Prerequisite for Good Data Governance
Effective data governance requires understanding your data so you can apply the right usage policies, the right access controls, and the right retention strategies. The onslaught of data accumulation most businesses face these days, including an increasing quantity of...
Using DRaaS? You Still Need to Test Your Disaster Recovery Plan
The focus on dealing with the problems of an ordinary day of business make it difficult to stop and think about how you'll deal with the challenges of an extraordinary day of business. That's why many companies don't even have a disaster recovery (DR) plan. It's easy...
3 Keys to Data Governance Success: Communication, People, and Technology
For some companies, establishing data governance policies is driven by compliance with regulatory mandates. For other companies, it's the realization that success with "big data" is only possible if the data being analyzed is complete and consistent. In either case,...
Use Different Backup Strategies to Meet Different Backup Needs
If you're looking for a single backup solution, you're probably going to be disappointed. Backups serve multiple purposes within an enterprise: maintain the historical trail of data for compliance purposes, restore data if it's mistakenly deleted or corrupted,...
3 Phases for Migrating to Amazon Web Services
Migrating to the cloud can be complex, so make it easier by creating a plan that lets you tackle it in phases. That will let you take a more focused approach rather than being overwhelmed by the process. Here are some tips for a 3-phase migration process that lets you...
10 Steps for Coping With An IT Disaster
Having a disaster recovery (DR) plan is critical to guide your actions when disaster strikes, but recovering takes more than simply grabbing the nearest copy of the DR document and executing its steps. Here are the 10 things you need to do to get through your IT...
Get Your Data Where You Need It With NetApp’s Data Fabric
Companies have more data today than ever. There's data on desktops, on servers in the corporate data center, in the public cloud, and moving back and forth between them to take advantage of a hybrid cloud. Simplifying that data movement is one of the biggest...
3 Reasons You Still Need Data Protection Software in the Cloud
While many businesses turn to the cloud as a destination for their backups and to provide disaster recovery (DR) capability, using the cloud doesn't mean companies don't need their own data protection plans and data protection software. With a new partnership...
