Arthur Cole

The more things change, the more they stay the same. It’s a trite saying but appropriate for today’s cloud infrastructure market, which seems to be evolving along much the same vendor-defined trajectory as the data center before it. According to new data from Synergy Research Group, the top three vendors duking it out for cloud […]

The Internet of Things (IoT) is taking shape at a rapid clip, but like any other cooperative technology initiative, the need for standards is starting to draw interest as well. While it seems obvious that millions of sensors distributed around the globe would need some sort of interoperable framework, what about the rest of the […]

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is poised to make major gains in the enterprise, forever altering the way infrastructure, applications and data are managed. But are robots going to become as ubiquitous as some people believe, or will they see a more targeted deployment in support of key enterprise functions? According to Indian management consulting firm […]

The enterprise continues to encounter good news and bad news when it comes to storage. On the good side, it is spending less for more capacity, largely as a result of commodity solutions making their way into hyperscale cloud facilities. On the bad side, organizations are dealing with a wide variety of storage options, and […]

Data center infrastructure is becoming denser, and this is forcing the enterprise to consider increasingly novel ways to manage power and heat loads. What was considered experimental – and sometimes a little nuts – just a few years ago is now on the cusp of going mainstream, which is contributing to a general shake-up over […]

It seems there is nothing the enterprise needs done any more that cannot be provided as a service, and that includes the most architecturally complex applications ever conceived. Even as organizations across the economic landscape scramble to build the Internet of Things (IoT), key players are already looking ahead to IoT as a Service (IoTaaS). […]

In this age of digital transformation, nothing is more suitable for a remake than the enterprise data center. The demands of a service-driven economy are quickly proving to be too much for rigid, silo-based infrastructure, and this is before we begin to contemplate the implications of Big Data and the Internet of Things. But if […]

One of the chief advantages to cloud computing is its ability to implement the latest technologies in record time. While the enterprise struggles to deploy Flash technology and even basic server virtualization in the data center, the cloud is already pushing forward with machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI). This more than anything is […]

Although detractors may decry it as a waste of money and resources, the enterprise seems to have settled on the hybrid cloud as the infrastructure play for the emerging digital services economy. But far from being a monolithic construct, the hybrid cloud consists of many moving parts and there is great diversity in deployment configurations […]

Application development for the Internet of Things (IoT) is proving to be a bit trickier than initially thought. When processes are intended to function across a diverse collection of systems and infrastructure, how is the enterprise expected to maintain data integrity or prevent theft or illegal copying of proprietary code? Increasingly, though, organizations are turning […]

No matter how scaled-out, hyperconverged or abstracted data center infrastructure becomes, one element remains the same: Servers need high-speed access to vast amounts of storage. This produces a paradox, however, because as more storage comes online, it takes longer to find and retrieve data locked somewhere within its volumes. To counter this, platform developers are […]

The enterprise is anxious to automate as much of its data ecosystem as possible, starting with the cloud. But is automation the best solution for every challenge, and if not, how can enterprise executives determine what should be automated and what should remain under human control? According to tech journalist Bill Kleyman, cloud automation is […]