Arthur Cole

5 Ways to Avoid Video Challenges with Specialty Storage The enterprise data environment is usually a diverse collection of technologies, architectures, hardware, software and more vendor solutions than you can count. And this is just within the data center. Add the cloud, mobile infrastructure and emerging Big Data/IoT systems and what once was a complex […]

Improve Internet Performance by Diversifying Your Cloud Portfolio The cloud is putting up some big deployment numbers in recent months, leading many analysts to ponder not whether it will become the dominant form of IT, but when. According to IDC’s most recent forecast, the total cloud infrastructure spend will top $32.6 billion this year, a […]

Five Ways to Address Your Data Management Issues ARM Holdings made big waves a few years ago when it announced it would develop an enterprise-class server version of the architecture that has taken firm hold of the mobile and smartphone markets. But while the company has released architectures that support both 32-bit and 64-bit server […]

Amazing Growth in Data Requires Innovative New Solutions Everyone wants a more efficient data center, if only for the cost-savings and not the greater environmental good. The problem is that many legacy centers are so loaded with aging equipment and out-of-date systems architectures that it’s easier to just leave things as they are and plan […]

Best Practices for Choosing a Business Intelligence Dashboard The enterprise is rightly concerned about the impact that Big Data and the Internet of Things will have on infrastructure, but the sad fact is that this is only the first of many challenges that lie in the path of simple functionality, let alone full-blown optimization of […]

Amazing Growth in Data Requires Innovative New Solutions For enterprises looking to scale resources to cloud and Big Data levels, commodity hardware is a tough proposition to turn down. It’s cheap, flexible and capable of supporting the software-defined, dynamic resource configuration capabilities that will be in high demand for next-generation platforms and services. But does […]

10 Ways Wearables Put Your Network in Serious Danger Like most of the technology initiatives hitting the enterprise these days, the advent of consumer platforms supporting professional applications and processes is met with a mixture of anticipation and caution. Everybody likes to work with the tools they are most comfortable with, of course, but since […]

How to Keep Your Cloud Technologies Secure Arguing over which kind of cloud is “best” for the enterprise is like arguing over what kind of apple tastes better than the others. Some people like the crispy sweetness of the Red Delicious, others the floral spiciness of the Courtland or the classic apple-taste of the Macintosh. […]

Capitalizing on Big Data: Analytics with a Purpose No matter how adept the enterprise becomes at self-service provisioning and dynamic cloud operations, there will always be a push-pull relationship with users over digital autonomy. Users, of course, will keep pushing for more while the enterprise will keep pulling for less. It all comes to a […]

Five Ways to Address Your Data Management Issues Larger data loads are coming to the enterprise, both as a function of Big Data and the steady uptick of normal business activity. This will naturally wreak havoc with much of today’s traditional storage infrastructure, which is being tasked with not only with providing more capacity but […]

Study Examines Government Cloud Adoption and Shadow IT Everybody likes self-service these days. We have self-service gas, self-service car washes–heck you can even self-service your mortgage application with just a few mouse clicks. So it’s no surprise that knowledge workers are bringing this ethos to the office and bumping up against the idea of someone […]

How to Future-Proof Your Data Lake: Six Critical Considerations The enterprise is formulating big plans for Big Data, but first there is the little matter of deploying big infrastructure to handle the load. To be sure, not all of the data generated by legions of smartphone apps and RF-connected sensors will need to be compiled […]