Arthur Cole

Storage remains the primary application for the enterprise cloud, but its days as simply a low-cost warehouse for bulk data are coming to an end. Going forward, the enterprise should see a widening array (sorry) of storage options in the cloud, most of them geared toward highly targeted workloads. According to 451 Research, overall pricing […]

The Internet of Things (IoT) may be barely off the ground, but developers are already looking for ways to imbue the technology with high degrees of intelligence. On one level, an intelligent IoT is a reason unto itself given that the scale and complexity of the data environment is beyond the capabilities of today’s management […]

The debate over the efficacy of the hybrid cloud is likely to continue for as long as there are hybrid clouds. Pure-cloud advocates say hybrids are merely a marketing ploy by vendors looking to preserve their legacy platforms, while hybrid supporters say they are simply meeting the demands of the enterprise community. But it seems […]

Analytics is becoming a crucial element in the enterprise data ecosystem. It is one of the key drivers of the Internet of Things (IoT), and will undoubtedly provide key competitive advantages as the digital economy unfolds. But it doesn’t come cheap, and it is by no means an easy process to master. So as the […]

Enterprise infrastructure is becoming more distributed, both in the cloud and across expanding IoT environments, and this is making it difficult to get the right data to the right people at the right time. One of the key barriers to improved data delivery is storage networking. Whether the goal is to satisfy increasingly demanding customers […]

The enterprise finds itself tasked with catering to the whims of an increasingly demanding user population. The world today expects services of a highly esoteric nature to be delivered speedily and reliably, and there is little tolerance for failure. Delivering this level of service is driving many organizations to deploy new container-based architectures and the […]

Ready or not, the Internet of Things (IoT) is bearing down on the enterprise at a rapid clip, which is forcing the industry to shift its IT capital budgets from the central data center to the edge. But what form will this new edge take? And how is the enterprise supposed to manage such broadly […]

It seems like even the biggest hyperscale platform developers who have long touted software-defined architectures as the key to computing nirvana are starting to learn a cardinal rule of infrastructure: No matter how much you try to abstract it, basic hardware still matters. A key example of this is Google’s Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), which […]

Big Data is likely to be a key element in the digital transformation taking hold in the enterprise, but there are still questions as to how it will influence future business processes and what steps to take now to ensure it provides optimal support in a fast-changing economy. According to a recent report by Verizon […]

Container technology is making a swift run at the enterprise as developers try to iron out the wrinkles in creating web-facing applications using traditional data infrastructure. The one thing lacking, however, is an effective means to manage containerized services and microservices as they navigate the complex internal and external resource architectures in distributed data environments. […]

Most people may roll their eyes when the subject of augmented and virtual reality (AR and VR) in the enterprise is brought up, but developers of both the hardware and software behind the technology are looking forward to a whole new world of opportunity. From improved communication and collaboration to entirely new forms of infrastructure […]

Hybrid computing models are starting to infiltrate enterprise data environments as organizations seek to leverage both public and private cloud infrastructure. But while this may seem to diminish traditional in-house data centers, it’s actually the outsourcing industry that has reason to worry. According to Gartner, hybrid infrastructure will feature prominently at 90 percent of data-driven […]