VAST Perspectives
New Guide: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Making information technology (IT) projects responsive to business needs has been a challenge since the earliest days of computers. Companies have turned to agile development methods to speed software development and to DevOps methods to improve operations. Now,...
Enterprise Vault Errors Flooding Your Event Logs??
With Enterprise Vault (EV) you can sometimes see strange behavior in the event logs. For example, reoccurring 29014 errors with an interesting host name or Vault ID: Type: Error Date: 3/30/2017 Time: 2:21:07 PM Event: 29014 Source: ...
Two Ways of Looking at Hyperconvergence and Data Protection
Switching to hyperconverged infrastructure in your data center has a big impact on your day-to-day operations; that's the goal, to simplify the routine support and expansion requirements. Along with reviewing hyperconvergence from the perspectives of hardware,...
Hybrid Cloud is Only a Subset of the Hybrid IT Your Business Needs to Manage
Whether you're planning a move to hybrid cloud or not, your business almost certainly needs a plan for using hybrid IT. Enterprises today need to manage a mix of data center strategies that include public, private, and hybrid clouds; virtual machines; legacy,...
Options for Getting Your Data to Amazon Web Services Safely
Once the decision is made to use cloud, the next challenge is how to make that transition. In many cases, moving data to the cloud becomes a stumbling block. Transferring large amounts of data runs into problems of time, bandwidth, and security; 100 terabytes needs...
Review Your Cloud Migration from Every Perspective
There's a lot to think through when planning a migration to the cloud. There are purely technical considerations, such as deciding which instance type is most appropriate for your workloads; financial considerations, such as deciding how to manage the monthly...
5 Reasons You Should Stop Buying Hardware and Start Using Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Investing in computer hardware is a major expense for almost every business. Not only is purchasing the equipment expensive, providing the floor space the devices require, along with cooling systems, electricity, and ongoing support and maintenance, means that the...
dcVAST Exhibiting at Disaster Recovery Journal Spring World 2017
dcVAST will be at Disaster Recovery Journal Spring World 2017 on March 26 – 29, 2017. Disaster Recovery Journal Spring World is the world's largest gathering of business continuity professionals. The conference emphasizes the importance of business continuity and...
Are You Falling for These Hyperconverged Infrastructure Myths?
There’s no question there’s a lot of hype about hyperconverged infrastructure these days. The market is expected to grow to more than $12 billion by 2022, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 43.59 percent. While the benefits of hyperconverged infrastructure...
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...