Arthur Cole

Cloud infrastructure consists of a plethora of systems, platforms, formats and other constructs that must be integrated into some sort of cohesive data environment if it is to provide real value to the enterprise. But there is one thing that all clouds have in common: an underlying virtual layer. This puts VMware in a pretty […]

The enterprise quite naturally wants to get the most performance out of available infrastructure. But in addition to deploying the appropriate hardware and layering it with advanced architectures, it also must implement the correct data management strategy for high-speed digital environments. Data, after all, is the single most valuable asset these days, so carelessness in […]

Most references to the mainframe in modern enterprise infrastructure point out the fact that such an aging technology is still chugging along in today’s frenetic data environment. But the truth of the matter is that the mainframe is still the powerhouse of the large data center, with some estimates claiming that it accounts for as […]

The cloud has long been touted as the lowest-cost IT option for the enterprise. It might not provide all the bells and whistles as traditional infrastructure, but its vast size gives it the economies of scale that no other solution can match. But that view is being increasingly challenged. According to a recent survey by […]

It seems that cloud providers are no longer fooling around when it comes to getting enterprise workloads. With new migration packages and services optimized for mission-critical data and applications, CSPs large and small are eager for your business. The question for most enterprises, however, is whether to stick with the hyperscale providers like Amazon and […]

Natural Language Processing (NLP) has made great strides since the advent of Siri, to the point where it is now garnering serious attention as an enterprise productivity tool. In addition to helping IT provision and manage data infrastructure, NLP is expected to democratize the data ecosystem throughout the knowledge workforce. Instead of crafting the user […]

The cloud has long been viewed as a convenient way to offload data from traditional IT infrastructure. Increasingly, however, enterprises are looking to tap the vast resources at its disposal as a means to build the high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure they’ll need for Big Data and the Internet of Things (IoT). HPC has been around […]

Like pop music, the enterprise industry has a way of creating hot new stars one day and abandoning them the next. A case in point is virtualization and containers. Virtualization burned up the charts right up until containers came along with a sleeker, more portable solution. Now, it seems that containers are headed for the […]

Everyone wants to know what will happen to the enterprise when the “digital transformation” has run its course. But while it’s fair to say that this process will affect individual organizations in different ways, some of the major trend lines are starting to emerge. Gartner released a report this week highlighting three megatrends that will […]

Hyperscale data centers are pushing a number of extremes, but not all of them are related to sheer size. Increasingly, centers are going up in remote places where cool climates and an abundance of renewable energy prevail, or in highly dense urban areas where data proximity is highly valued. And there is even a push […]

The private cloud continues to be a conundrum for the enterprise as it seeks to reconfigure data infrastructure for the emerging digital economy. On the one hand, it provides a marked improvement over traditional infrastructure in terms of scale and efficiency, but on the other, it is neither as scalable nor as efficient as the […]

Machine learning and other forms of artificial intelligence will likely infiltrate all levels of the IT infrastructure stack, but some architectures will take to it more readily than others. And while it is tempting to view AI in terms of the changes it will bring to the data center, the more imminent and profound impact […]