VAST Perspectives
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...
Understand the Impact of Hyperconverged Architecture on Your Data Center
Hyperconverged infrastructure is gaining in popularity for several reasons. The technology offers a streamlined approach to implementation and maintenance, with a single vendor responsible for compute, storage, and network capability. The systems are designed for easy...
Give Secondary Storage First Class Treatment with a Hyperconverged Solution
You’re ignoring an iceberg in your data center. As much as 80 percent of corporate data is secondary data, consisting of backups and copies made for one-off development, test, or other purposes. This data is rarely managed strategically, and resides on a variety of...
5 Questions to Ask Before Choosing Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Hyperconverged infrastructure has become one of the most popular data center architectures now. Gartner expects the hyperconverged systems to become 24 percent of the integrated systems market by 2019. Many companies find they achieve significant advantages from this...
Three Ways to Simplify Your Database Management
With the rise of big data, companies are more dependent on their databases, data warehouses, and data lakes than ever. But companies often struggle to make sense of that data, because they struggle to simply manage that data. DBAs spend too much of their time on...
Upgrade Your NetBackup Version to Stay Supported and Gain New Functionality
Upgrade projects can be disruptive and time consuming, but companies shouldn't neglect them. Keeping up with the latest software releases not only gives you access to the latest features, it keeps you safe with updates that address security vulnerabilities. Staying on...
Hyperconverged Infrastructure Lets Big Data Fit In Your Data Center
The biggest challenge with big data is, well, it's big. Generating the data isn't the problem. These days, there's a steady flow of data coming from all around: enterprise systems that process transactions, web-based systems that track customer clicks, Internet of...
Look to the Future to Successfully Transition to a Hybrid Cloud
Companies can have different reasons for choosing the hybrid cloud model. They may want the convenience of a cloud-based DR environment, or capacity on demand to support cloud bursting when processing loads peak. They may hope to gain flexibility in managing their IT...
Master Data Management Plans Need a Strategy for Sharing
Master data management projects are largely viewed as data consolidation projects. The efforts replace separate, scattered departmental databases of key business data such as customer information with a single, master file. Through creating well-defined metadata that...
Protect Data Against Tampering By Focusing on Data Integrity
The standard "CIA" model of computer security requires confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Data protection often focuses on preventing data theft and unauthorized access, viewing it as a privacy and security issue that can be addressed through firewalls,...
