Arthur Cole

The enterprise shows no signs of slowing the migration of data and applications from legacy infrastructure to the cloud. But while much of this activity is aimed at reducing the cost of IT, particularly in the capital budget, it turns out there are many side benefits to cloud computing – at least, for the right […]

Integration is at the heart of modern digitization efforts in the enterprise. But unlike past attempts to converge data systems and processes, this latest wave of integration incorporates the entire enterprise operational stack – from the back office to the manufacturing floor. Economists are already calling this trend Industry 4.0, given that it represents a […]

The convergence of consumer and professional technology has been going on for some time. Indeed, the influx of personal computers into homes back in the 1990s democratized a technology that previously had been limited to highly trained technicians. These days, of course, a single cell phone has more computing power than all but the most […]

The latest research on the enterprise storage industry has it pretty much on the same track that has been laid out over the past few years: increased cloud consumption, growing Flash deployment at the expense of magnetic media, and the steady decline of large, distributed arrays. But a quick peek under the headlines suggests that […]

2017 and Beyond: How Digital Innovation Will Impact the World Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to alter data infrastructure and processes in some very significant ways over the next decade, but some applications are riper for deployment than others. While stories abound about talking data centers, self-managing ecosystems, and the wealth of knowledge to be […]

Object storage appears to be the wave of the future in enterprise circles, primarily because it is the preferred solution for scale-out cloud architectures, but the fact remains that organizations will likely have to maintain file and block storage for a while longer at least, and probably forever. This is due to the varied performance […]

 The enterprise may still have high hopes for the hybrid cloud, but technology challenges are preventing many organizations from gaining all the benefits they had originally expected – particularly the ability to burst data and extend applications across local and distributed infrastructure. But while many firms are gravitating toward all-public platforms for their data needs, […]

The data lake may still be on the drawing board at most enterprises, but that hasn’t deterred software developers from coming up with new ways to improve their performance. By nature, the data lake will encompass a complex arrangement of infrastructure and architectural constructs, and be tasked with some of the most difficult data processes […]

The hyperscale data center model is poised to show its might over the next three years – the benefit of rising data loads, shrinking budgets, and the need to rapidly convert to dynamic and increasingly automated data infrastructure. But even as the enterprise industry migrates to the cloud, it might be beneficial to examine some […]

How Developers Balance Speed and Quality When it comes to shadow IT, the enterprise has three choices: It can accept it, fight it or ignore it. All too often, however, organizations choose the third option, which in most cases not only fails to satisfy individual or organizational needs but can place systems and data at […]

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2017 The enterprise is caught between a rock and a hard place when it comes to digital transformation. On the one hand, transition to an agile, scalable and highly virtualized data infrastructure is vital to future competitiveness, but on the other, there is still a massive investment in static […]

7 Tips to Improve Data Backup and Ensure Business Continuity Despite the redundancy and resilience the enterprise has gained from virtualization and cloud computing, disaster recovery remains one of the most overlooked functions on the IT to-do list. In many cases, organizations have established backup and recovery services for their primary applications, but without constant […]