VAST Perspectives
If Two People Can’t Keep a Secret, How Can Your Entire Company?
Your corporate data is filled with secrets. Your own secrets, like business plans and intellectual property, and your customer's secrets, like account numbers. And your collection of data is increasing daily, particularly if you're actively engaged in digital...
Managing Data in a Hybrid Cloud Requires Support for Data Mobility
One of the challenges companies face when using the cloud is managing their data. Since the cloud is outside of the data center, that means data needs to move from the on-premises data center to the cloud. This isn't just a one-time only setup issue, but is an ongoing...
The Only Reason to Switch to Hyperconverged Infrastructure
There's only one reason to switch to a hyperconverged infrastructure: it solves a business or IT problem for you. If the way your business is managing your IT is working for you, you may not need to change: just because everybody else is doing it isn't a good reason....
Pushbutton DR Isn’t Here Yet—You Still Need to Document Your Disaster Recovery Plan
Despite automation, scripts, and Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS), it still takes more than pushing a button to get your business back up and running in an emergency. Make sure your operations team knows what they need to do by creating a comprehensive...
Hyperconverged Infrastructure Still Requires Backups
Hyperconverged and web scale infrastructures are inherently robust. Built-in redundancies and replication mean component failures are almost transparent; processing and storage simply shifts to another node. Despite this, data backups are still required. Redundancy...
Meet Federal Data Retention Guidelines with Veritas Enterprise Vault 12.1
On November 28, 2011, President Obama signed the Presidential Memorandum on Managing Government Records,which is designed to reform records management policies and practices within government agencies. The memorandum provides two important commitment timelines:...
Do Multiple Hypervisors Need Multiple Backup Strategies?
It's inevitable that the more complex your infrastructure is, the more challenging it is to manage. Despite that, there are good reasons not to settle on a single data processing solution. Different workloads have different performance and processing demands that may...
Is Your Data Protection Plan Behind the Times?
The start of a new year is a good time to look back at what you accomplished this past year. When it comes to data protection, keeping up with the challenges is tough. Veritas identified eight data protection tips for 2016. Were you able to keep up with them?...
4 Steps to Cost-Effective Disaster Recovery
It's tough to justify budget requests for a function you hope will never be used. That's why no one wants to spend on disaster recovery. Yet the reality is that disaster isn't that rare. In one survey, 75 percent of businesses had experienced downtime due to power...
6 Questions to Ask Before Selecting a Hyperconverged Solution
Hyperconverged infrastructure offers the promise of making your data center easier to manage, but achieving that promise requires selecting a hyperconverged solution that fits in with your existing technical infrastructure and meets your business needs. Here are six...
