Arthur Cole

However intriguing artificial intelligence may seem to the enterprise, the fact is that its initial contribution to data operations will be fairly mundane. Deep learning, neural networks, and a host of other technologies present visions of talking, thinking computers, but the biggest opportunity at the moment comes in the form of robotic process automation (RPA). […]

Enterprises contemplating the transition from hardware-based infrastructure to a software-defined data center (SDDC) have already come to expect a fair share of complications. But exactly what are the pain points, and how have early adopters managed their way, or not, around them? Every implementation will be different, of course, but since the SDDC market is […]

If the enterprise wants to get ahead with Big Data and artificial intelligence, it will have to embrace new forms of infrastructure all the way to the silicon layer. The fact is that with the data loads being projected and the physical limitations of CPUs at their max, the future likely belongs to GPUs and […]

Containers are said to be the key to effective devops in the enterprise. But if this is the case, why are so many enterprises still launching the bulk of their applications on virtual machines more than four years after the Docker container platform made its debut? Part of the reason can be attributed to simple […]

The enterprise is moving quickly from a single-cloud deployment strategy to one that encompasses multiple clouds. But although this provides some protection against failure and loss of data, it also widens the possibility of fragmented infrastructure and the creation of distributed data silos. According to IOD Cloud Technologies Research, admittedly in a study commissioned by […]

Artificial intelligence is certain to affect IT infrastructure in a big way, but it seems that most of the immediate changes will take place on the cloud long before they seep into the enterprise data center. The simple fact that cloud providers earn their pay by offering the most advanced data architectures on the planet […]

The IT vendor community has been talking up the idea of “composable infrastructure” lately, but as with most technology initiatives, there is a fine line between a bold new direction and simply a new name for an old concept. As the name implies, composable infrastructure offers the ability to create highly specialized data environments dynamically […]

One of the earliest promises of virtualization was that it would allow the enterprise to dynamically shift workloads to the most efficient hardware footprint. This, in turn, would improve resource utilization and lifecycles, not to mention power consumption and overall performance. In reality, however, this proved to be a bit more complicated than it initially […]

Much of the attention surrounding the build-out of IoT infrastructure has gone to networking. As the enterprise edge pushes past the cloud all the way to the consumer device, the need to collect data from perhaps millions of points and route them to appropriate processing stations is indeed a major challenge. But so is the […]

Apple has long coveted the enterprise. Starting with the original Apple I and all the way to the iPhone 8, the company has envisioned itself as both a consumer and professional products company. The problem for most businesses, however, is that Apple products tend to be more expensive than either Windows or Linux, and outside […]

In the never-ending quest to keep IT equipment cool, enterprises have become increasingly open to the idea of liquid-based heat exchange – if only because air-cooled systems are not keeping up with increasingly dense systems and architectures. To date, most of these approaches involve piping cool water through equipment racks or bathing key components in […]

The enterprise is rightly concerned about getting its money’s worth from Big Data and the IoT, but as with so many technology initiatives of the past, achieving optimal ROI isn’t so much a factor of the technology itself but in how you use it. For many organizations, the purpose of these emerging platforms is to […]