Arthur Cole

Digital transition is a long-term phenomenon for the enterprise, but budget decisions are always right around the corner. So when it comes to outfitting and provisioning the data center, how are IT executives supposed to square their overarching data strategies with the hard decisions regarding hardware, software and the cloud? The optimal solution, of course, […]

The Internet of Things (IoT) is big, it’s complicated, and it is vital to the success of the enterprise business model. So before you get too far ahead in deploying devices and the infrastructure needed to maintain connectivity, it might help to give a thought about visibility. While it is true that much of the […]

Artificial intelligence (AI) is not only changing the way data and business processes are carried out, it is leading to a broad reconfiguration of underlying infrastructure as well. Clearly, the enterprise cannot support a cutting-edge tool like AI on yesterday’s hardware, but how exactly will infrastructure need to change in order to support the intelligent, […]

The enterprise has made great strides in curbing its appetite for energy over the past decade, but will this ultimately be a losing battle as demand for data continues to rise? According to a recent report from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the number of data centers coming online has seen a dramatic uptick in […]

Enterprises that embark on digital transformation quickly confront an inescapable truth: At some point, this change will have to address core, mission-critical systems and applications. This is when the rubber truly hits the road because if the enterprise is not willing to remake itself into a completely new entity, then the entire process has been […]

Like the Phoenix, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) continues to rise from the ashes in the hopes that it will one day take its place as a mainstream enterprise solution. But this time, it seems that rather than trying to fit VDI into legacy data infrastructure, the technology is seen as a novel way for the […]

It’s somewhat ironic that in an age when software-defined architectures are fueling demand for generic commodity hardware, specialized hardware optimized for key workloads is hitting the channel as well. The movement seems to be based on the assumption that the enterprise will spend less on hardware going forward, but when it does it will be […]

The enterprise is poised to make a serious investment in edge-based processing and storage, the vast majority of it coming in the form of single- or maybe dual-rack “micro data centers.” The need is clear. The Internet of Things (IoT) all but demands that data be kept close to users, both to reduce latency and […]

The Internet of Things (IoT) is still early enough in the hype cycle so that most attention is focused on all the wonderful things it can do. For those tasked with implementing the infrastructure and architecture to make it all happen, however, the conversation is already starting to veer toward more practical concerns. The fact […]

People often say they want change, but few actually enjoy it when it happens – especially in business. Unfortunately, the enterprise industry is embarking on the most momentous change in its history and this is raising serious doubts as to the future of many of the sector’s established vendors. The bad news keeps coming for […]

The hybrid cloud has emerged as the preferred way for the enterprise to manage applications and workloads across distributed infrastructure. But even though the kinks are still being worked out linking local resources to a single cloud, the IT industry is already looking toward multi-cloud architectures. By and large, the same challenges exist with one […]

For years, the Uptime Institute’s tiered ratings system has been the gold standard for assessing data center reliability and availability – literally. The organization’s Tier IV Gold designation is so stringent that only a handful of operators around the globe have been deemed worthy. One of them is Switch, which became the first carrier-neutral colocation […]