Arthur Cole

Solid-state storage continues on a path toward greater speed and higher density, leading to an increasingly diverse set of solutions that, frankly, is starting to trend toward the unusual. But overall, the goal appears to be expanding capacity while boosting I/O to allow the enterprise to support ever-expanding workloads on smaller and smaller hardware footprints. […]

With so much attention paid to building the right virtual and software-defined architectures in the cloud, it is easy to forget that the cloud also needs the right hardware that in most cases is distinctly different from traditional data center infrastructure. Regardless of whether the enterprise plans to link private clouds to public resources or […]

The enterprise data center market is entering what once would have been considered a bubble, given the volume and pace of new facilities coming online. But is it really a bubble if demand continues to outstrip supply for the foreseeable future? According to commercial real estate services provider CBRE, the current boom is in response […]

Despite lingering concerns about security, reliability and, yes, costs, the enterprise is still very eager to migrate workloads to the cloud. And not surprisingly, cloud providers are equally eager to take on enterprise workloads. So what’s the problem? From an operational perspective, the main stumbling block appears to be the lack of effective tools to […]

Computing technology is seemingly caught between a rock and a hard place these days. The rock is physics, which is preventing the CPU from generating significantly more power using Moore’s Law. The hard place is the fact that machine learning and other forms of artificial intelligence need far greater performance than CPUs can provide. As […]

Containers add another layer of virtualization to an already virtualized data environment, but they are by no means a complete replacement for the virtual machine that first broke the dependency between software and hardware. But that leads to the question: When is it appropriate to use containers and when should the enterprise stick to the […]

Time is money, and in an increasingly fast-paced economy, even microsecond processing by the world’s fastest machines can lead to millions in losses if opportunities are not seized quickly enough. So imagine the ramifications of broadly distributed data ecosystems that often require minutes to capture and load data, let alone churn out the results. A […]

Artificial intelligence is firmly wedged into the Gartner hype cycle, but that does not mean it is vaporware or that its impact on the enterprise will be less than stunning. It does mean that some expectations need to be brought back to earth. According to Sarah Thomas, director of Women in Comms, AI is likely […]

The enterprise still seems a bit leery about blockchain, although it isn’t for lack of trying among solutions providers who say it can help with everything from ecommerce to back-office workflow processing. The digital ledger technology that has led to the rise of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum is also capable of providing an open, […]

The cloud wants your data, and it is resorting to increasingly creative methods to get it. The enterprise has long had a love/hate relationship with shadow IT, the practice where users create their own clouds to hold both personal and business data. But the practice is getting even more out of control because emerging storage […]

Enterprises struggling to find balance between running workloads on legacy apps in the data center and cloud-native apps on distributed resources might be interested to know that container technology might be on the verge of making those worries disappear. Over the past few months, multiple solutions have hit the channel purporting to either push legacy […]

It’s pretty certain that much of the enterprise workload, and virtually all of the Internet of Things, will run on containers before long, which means the basic configuration of these little virtualized environments will have to be as interoperable as possible. And that’s a problem, because if there is one thing the IT industry should […]