Arthur Cole

Internet of Things (IoT) management platforms are hitting the channel at a rapid clip this year, all promising to ramp up the enterprise’s data collection and device connectivity challenges without requiring overly burdensome upfront investments in infrastructure. But organizations looking to manage their IoT footprints should be aware that most of these solutions are aimed […]

ARM Holdings has been angling for the data center for a number of years but has yet to make significant inroads against Intel’s dominance. But with enterprises of all stripes looking to foster greater diversity across their distributed data footprints, time is growing short for both ARM and its legion of chip manufacturers to show […]

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is instilling senses of both anticipation and trepidation in the enterprise. On the one hand, it has the potential to vastly improve efficiency and performance of data options, while on the other it is seen as a threat to jobs and the ability to exert adequate control over the data environment […]

Amid all the changes that technology is bringing to data infrastructure, it is sometimes easy to overlook the fact that the consumption model for hardware and software is changing as well, and this is having an equally profound effect on how the enterprise adapts to the digital services era. The overriding goal is to make […]

Virtualization revolutionized server infrastructure in the data center, and now containers are about to do the same for virtual resources in the cloud. And while both introduce new layers of abstraction to support increased application and data flexibility, they also produce the need for substantial changes to storage. In containers’ case, this change comes in […]

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. That’s been the mantra for the data center throughout much of the IT era, but at what point does the enterprise have to consider the very real possibility that without significant upgrades, the data center of today will no longer provide the support needed for modern applications and […]

Whether by accident or intent, more enterprises are finding themselves increasingly dependent on multiple discrete clouds. While this does offer some advantages when hosting applications and workloads on the most optimal resource configurations, it also leads to a management problem that, if left unchecked, could produce the same silo architectures that currently inhibit data interactivity […]

Is it time to put the public vs. private/hybrid cloud debate behind us? Like Mac vs. PC or open vs. proprietary, it seems that the biggest arguments over technology have a shelf-life, and the time to put conflicts over cloud infrastructure is nearing its end. The reason is simple: In an age of virtual, abstract […]

Hosted infrastructure is quickly becoming the preferred means of application and data support, a sign that the enterprise no longer has any illusions about its ability to confront the challenges of a digital economy with its own data center. According to 451 Research, the growth of enterprise spending on hosted and cloud services will more […]

It’s probably the understatement of the century so far to say that the future of the enterprise depends on a successful Internet of Things (IoT) deployment. As the economy transforms from the selling of products to the selling of services, companies without a top-notch IoT ecosystem will be at a distinct disadvantage to those that […]

The cloud is still growing by leaps and bounds, but not as fast as it was at the beginning of the decade. But it is unclear if this represents a long-term trend as the market reaches the front end of a traditional bell curve, or just a minor pause in the technology’s ultimate takeover of […]

If you want telephone service, you call the telephone company. If you want data center services, you call … the telephone company. Telecoms around the world are getting into the managed data center services business in a big way, leveraging cloud-based virtual architectures to provide low-cost data environments for Fortune 500 firms and SMBs alike. […]