Arthur Cole

Augmented reality took a blow in the consumer arena with the demise of Google Glass, but it is making a comeback in the enterprise, where it is turning out to be a useful tool for a wide range of applications. Virtually anywhere that an employee needs free hands but access to data is an opportunity […]

The cloud is starting to dominate IT infrastructure and the hyperscale providers are starting to dominate the cloud. So is it game-over for the data center? Or the small cloud providers? Not exactly. To be sure, the vast bulk of the enterprise workload appears headed for the top providers like Amazon, Google and Microsoft. According […]

The closer the enterprise gets to a broad Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem, the more urgently it feels the need for a functioning orchestration layer. Unfortunately, aside from a few rudimentary steps toward basic interoperability and data management, it seems that full-stack orchestration will have to wait a while. This is a problem both for […]

Having a multi-cloud strategy these days is like having a multi-server strategy in ages past: Why trust your workloads to a single point of failure when you can move them about at will? But while distributing resources over multiple points fosters redundancy and eliminates vendor lock-in on one level, the enterprise should be aware that […]

Containers took the development world by storm last year, giving the enterprise a quick and convenient way to compile the building blocks for new and innovative applications and services. But since development and operations are uniting under new DevOps models of IT management, the focus is now shifting toward finding the best ways to leverage […]

Solid-state disks (SSDs) continue to show remarkable flexibility when it comes to design features and form factors, leading many enterprises to wonder whether traditional spinning media has a future in the data center after all. The past few months have seen a steady stream of new devices, each sporting novel new ways to integrate high-speed […]

It seems that Microsoft is finally ready to go all-in with the hybrid cloud, putting not only its fortunes at stake with the concept but those of virtually the entire legacy enterprise vendor community. The company announced this week that its Azure Stack private cloud architecture is ready for production environments and will begin shipping […]

New chip-level developments are occurring at a steady pace, so much so that in a few short years we could see a radical new foundation for the way the world creates and manipulates data. This is happening just in time, since conventional architectures are close to maxing out the physical limitations of Moore’s Law. The […]

Big Data is not an ironic term. It really is big. For the enterprise looking to make use of it, this leads to a perplexing problem: Do you host your Big Data environment in the cloud, or create a data lake on premises? Each approach has its pluses and minuses. The cloud is a good […]

Of all the challenges facing the development of IoT infrastructure, one of the most difficult is the need to establish real-time data gathering an analysis. Not only does this require high-speed, high-power systems and processes throughout the data chain, it also requires a level of data handling that was unthinkable just a few short years […]

Strange as it may seem, the cloud only holds about a fifth of the total enterprise workload, which means there is still time for the enterprise to suddenly decide that the risks are not worth the rewards and start pulling data and applications back to legacy infrastructure. Unlikely as this is, it nonetheless points out […]

Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is undoubtedly easier to implement, less costly and more flexible than tradition data center configurations, but that does not mean it is trouble-free. Indeed, as more and more enterprises jump on the HCI bandwagon, many are learning that, as with most data-related issues, the trouble starts when you scale things up. The […]