Arthur Cole

The Evolution of Business Software: Focus on the Consumer Advancement of enterprise infrastructure will proceed along fairly established lines in the coming years: increased modularity, efficiency and scalability. If only the same could be said about enterprise architecture. EA, as it is known, is moving forward on so many fronts and across so many disciplines […]

Five Ways to Address Your Data Management Issues Enterprise infrastructure is at a weird inflection point as 2016 rolls around. In some cases, it is getting larger, as with the hyperscale cloud providers, but elsewhere it is getting smaller, as with the new hyperconverged platforms hitting enterprise channels. Both of these trends are the product […]

The Five Dos and Don’ts of Virtualization Of all the technology initiatives taking shape for the coming year, none is as potentially up-ending as containers. The “new virtualization,” as some are calling it, stands to not only remake enterprise architecture as we know it, but to produce a dramatically different application and services environment than […]

5 Big Ways Big Data Is Changing the IT Network The holidays are a time of year when you take a step back from the day-to-day and think about the big picture. For enterprise executives, those thoughts should be swirling around the future of the data environment. At one time, data infrastructure was a fixed, […]

Defining Deep Data: What It Is and How to Use It Amid all the buzz surrounding the software-defined data center (SDDC), is it reasonable to assume that 2016 will be its breakout year? In a way, the answer is yes, but not if your definition of “breakout” means the beginning of widespread commercial deployment. Rather, […]

2016 Data Analytics Forecast: Top 5 Trends to Watch The most-discussed trend hitting the enterprise next year will surely be Big Data and the Internet of Things, but whether these twin movements will end with a bang or a fizzle is still uncertain. The run-up has garnered its fair share of attention, so there will […]

4 Ways IT Can Better Align Itself to Fulfill Business Needs Amid all the technological changes set to take place in the coming year, the enterprise is on the verge of a momentous operational and organizational transformation as well. One of the most significant aspects of this is the rise of Dev/Ops as the driving […]

4 Ways IT Can Better Align Itself to Fulfill Business Needs It seems that orchestration is everywhere in enterprise circles these days. Whether it’s on the cloud, the software-defined infrastructure, or higher up the application stack, organizations are looking to coordinate an increasingly unwieldy set of resources into something resembling a unified data environment. But […]

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2016 The traditional enterprise vendors’ hold on the data center market is said to be shaky and growing weaker by the day as new cloud and white box solutions come into vogue. But by the numbers at least, it seems like the old guard is holding its own for […]

Five Ways to Address Your Data Management Issues It seems that everyone is worrying about disruption these days, whether it’s market disruption, business model disruption, or technology disruption. Of course, it’s always better to be the disruptor than the disruptee, so it seems that a primary strategic objective for the enterprise in the coming year […]

The Role of IT in the Cloud Era The hybrid cloud remains the prevailing narrative throughout the enterprise industry at the moment, although it does leave quite a bit of wiggle room regarding how much of the data infrastructure will remain on private resources and how much will go public. The ratio will be different […]

Six Warning Signs You’ve Outgrown Your Software Competition is heating up in the enterprise market, particularly when it comes to building the infrastructure to handle Big Data and the Internet of Things. But unlike past eras when vendor titans duked it out for IT supremacy, the pressure these days is just as likely to come […]