VAST Perspectives
Web-scale in the Enterprise Needs More than Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Companies like Google, Facebook, and Amazon are online businesses that depend entirely on their digital infrastructure. Despite the struggles most businesses have in managing and leveraging IT effectively, those digital companies are able to manage their gigantic...
Don’t Be Vexed by the Four V’s of Big Data
Big Data is commonly defined by the four Vs: volume, variety, velocity, and veracity. Along with those, companies might encounter a fifth V: vexation. Managing even ordinary-scale data is a challenge. The scope of big data means the challenges scale with the data....
The 7 Integration Challenges of Hyperconverged Architecture
Bringing any new technology into the data center means figuring out how to fit it into your data center along with all the technology that's already there: unless you're building a brand new data center from scratch and don't have any existing applications, there's...
Data Governance is About Empowerment, Not Control
Data Governance is all about policies and controls, right? The problem with approaching data governance from that perspective is that it turns the data governance team into the data cops. And just as the real police sometimes have an antagonistic relationship with the...
3 Ways Hybrid Cloud Can Boost Your Business
When technology is used poorly, it gets in the way of accomplishing business goals. Used correctly, technology instead offers leverage that helps achieve those goals. Hybrid cloud, by allowing companies the ability to use public or private clouds, whichever is most...
The Veritas NetBackup 5240 Appliance is now Generally Available!
Integrated backup appliances help businesses reduce the management complexity of their backup processes while increasing reliability at the same time. NetBackup appliances from Veritas make backup and recovery turnkey operations that are easy to deploy and can offer...
Reduce the Irony of Backup Downtime
Backups are critical to keeping your business going. In case of a crisis, complete, consistent backups let you recover your business data and resume operations. The importance of these backups grows as your business does. The irony of these backups is that making a...
Disaster Recovery as a Service Solves Challenges for Management and Tech Staff
Business managers know that disaster recovery is crucial for business survivability, but it's expensive and there's little apparent return on the investment. For technical staff, disaster recovery is an additional responsibility on top of their every day jobs, and...
3 Challenges for Big Data’s Data in the Hybrid Cloud
The hybrid cloud offers businesses tremendous flexibility in how to use their computing resources, allowing them to use the most appropriate and cost-effective infrastructure model for each workload. However, the split nature of hybrid cloud infrastructure means that...
Has the Cloud Changed Your Monitoring Strategy?
Has the cloud changed your monitoring strategy? If it hasn't, you may want to rethink your approach. The more places you put stuff, the harder it is to keep track of, relevant to almost every company that's neither entirely in the cloud or in its own data center any...
