Arthur Cole

It’s a fait accompli at this point that the enterprise will become significantly more automated over the next decade, both in terms of IT operations and infrastructure management. And while this will most certainly affect the knowledge workforce, and probably cost jobs, it will also bring about a higher level of data productivity that will […]

The two key benefits of a multi-cloud strategy are that it avoids building dependency on a single provider and it allows organizations to find the optimal resource configurations for key applications and services. The problem, however, is that it is not always easy to make data stored on one cloud available to applications hosted in […]

Before the enterprise starts to rely on IoT infrastructure for core business operations, it needs to consider the fact that without broad access to data from a plethora of sources, it is unlikely to produce the kind of results that support a truly effective digital business model. This means data integration must be built into […]

The enterprise is quickly growing accustomed to deploying new resources in software rather than hardware, but with the anticipated scale of the IoT making its presence known, we may very well have to return to some old-school infrastructure development. Already, organizations are looking at ways to augment legacy storage infrastructure for the expected deluge of […]

In a hybrid cloud environment, the tracking of digital assets becomes more of a challenge, not just because infrastructure is distributed across multiple providers but because of the myriad systems and architectures that data encounters as well. This is why many organizations are turning to third-party visibility and discovery solutions that promise to shed light […]

Investment in data technology continues its steady climb at enterprises throughout the world, although this does not necessarily represent the rapid integration of next-generation capabilities into IT environments. Rather, it seems to indicate that organizations are expanding on what they know rather than venturing into an uncertain future. According to Gartner, global IT spending will […]

2017 is considered to be a breakout year for the Internet of Things (IoT), but if you look closely, this is more a reflection of how much people talked about it rather than what was actually deployed.  This shouldn’t come as a surprise for a technology that portends such a radical shift in the way […]

Building a hybrid cloud environment is a hassle, but the light at the end of the tunnel has always been that eventually the enterprise would have a fully abstract, infinitely scalable, self-managing data environment that can cope with the frantic workloads of the digital economy. But while the vendor and provider communities have been quick […]

The enterprise is in love with DRAM, so much so that it is starting to affect the pricing of what was once a fairly stable component in the IT infrastructure stack, and this may ultimately push system vendors to embrace alternate forms of memory. At the moment, however, DRAM is the preferred solution for in-memory […]

Interest in blockchain as an enterprise solution continues to rise, to the point where platform vendors and service providers are starting to fold the technology into their IT solutions. But while blockchain has been shown to be useful in applications far beyond cryptocurrency, there is still a lot of uncertainty when it comes to integrating […]

The two major trends affecting enterprise infrastructure these days are the cloud and hyperconverged systems, both of which seem to be enjoying more of a symbiotic relationship at the moment than parallel development tracks. HCI is gaining favor not merely as a way to streamline hardware footprints and lessen management burdens but to support private […]

Hybrid cloud architectures must serve two masters at once. They have to integrate smoothly with legacy enterprise data infrastructure while at the same time enable seamless connectivity to the equally complex, and often proprietary, systems on the public cloud. It’s small wonder, then, that both sides of the cloud are turning to OpenStack to bridge […]