Arthur Cole

Six Warning Signs You’ve Outgrown Your Software With all the changes taking place in the data center, there is some small comfort in knowing the general direction of emerging trends: Infrastructure will become a function of software rather than hardware, and IT will have much more leeway in tailoring the data environment to the needs […]

Unikernels: The Next Generation of Cloud Technology Applications are quickly surpassing infrastructure as the key driver of data productivity. Where once the differentiators between cutting-edge and also-ran were measured in processor speed, storage capacity and networking throughput, it now rests largely on orchestration, availability and scalability. Containers are whizzes at producing the latter, which is […]

How the Internet of Things Will Change Our Lives The Internet of Things (IoT) is real and is getting more real every day. And contrary to some lingering beliefs, it will not be optional. Organizations that do not take advantage of the data collection and analytics capabilities that are hitting the channel will find themselves […]

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2016 It seems something of a misnomer that Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) platforms are gaining in stature while the vast majority of enterprises are supposed to be de-emphasizing local resources in favor of the cloud. But the trend is clear: Run-of-the-mill enterprises are turning to every means necessary […]

Unikernels: The Next Generation of Cloud Technology Big Data and the Internet of Things are the two major disruptors in enterprise circles these days. Organizations need to ramp up infrastructure quickly in order to leverage the value that is locked away in massive data stores, but it needs to be done in a way that […]

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2016 Enterprise data loads have been growing more diverse for some time. These days, organizations are routinely juggling traditional workflows, mobile and cloud-facing applications, high-speed transactional data, and even a smattering of Big Data-style analytics. It’s no surprise, then, that the x86 architecture’s hold on enterprise data infrastructure is […]

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2016 With all the changes taking place in and around data infrastructure, IT executives are in a quandary as to how to allocate their budgets. Do you lower capital costs by investing more heavily in the cloud? Do you shore up your own data center? And if so, where? […]

Unikernels: The Next Generation of Cloud Technology We’re hearing a lot about the “bare-metal cloud” these days. The idea is that you can have cloud services not on a virtualized infrastructure but running directly on local infrastructure or leased hardware in a remote data center. Naturally, this has a lot of people puzzled as to […]

5 Big Ways Big Data Is Changing the IT Network Hyperconvergence is all the rage at the moment, promising big things in small packages and the ability to support Big Data and other applications at low cost and with none of the complexity that accompanies traditional data infrastructure. But as with most emerging technologies, the […]

5 Lessons to Brush Up Your Cloud Security Knowledge Is the cloud truly the new world order? And if so, will the enterprise have no choice but to push all of its infrastructure to Amazon or Microsoft or Rackspace? The answer is yes, and not necessarily. At OpenWorld last week, Wipro COO Abidali Neemuchwala laid […]

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2016 Complicated corporate mergers are often difficult to analyze, particularly when the industries they inhabit are undergoing such fluid, dynamic change. In the case of Dell and EMC, this is doubly true given the number of subsidiaries and partly owned entities that play crucial roles in the very technologies […]

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2016 Liquid cooling of critical data center components is starting to make its way into production environments, and just in time too, considering the increased density of modern infrastructure and its need for a more efficient means of heat dissipation. 3M Corporation recently announced the largest deployment of a […]