Arthur Cole

Amazing Growth in Data Requires Innovative New Solutions Few enterprises have made serious inroads into the emerging field of container virtualization, but already there is growing concern that the technology might not be as effective as advertised in supporting advanced applications and microservices – at least not yet. At the moment, the big issue is […]

Amazing Growth in Data Requires Innovative New Solutions The enterprise is incorporating cloud infrastructure into its general data footprint at a rapid pace, but the process is not going as smoothly as many had hoped. Integration in particular is proving to be a thorny issue as organizations attempt to shift workloads first from the data […]

Five Ways to Address Your Data Management Issues Automating the data center is one of those things that evokes conflicting emotions in enterprise executives. After all, who wouldn’t want a virtually hands-free data ecosystem in which everybody’s needs are satisfied at a moment’s notice? Then again, no one, not even the people building the automation […]

Amazing Growth in Data Requires Innovative New Solutions It seems that the enterprise is both intrigued and yet intimidated by the thought of incorporating high-performance computing (HPC) into the data center. On the one hand, who doesn’t want a powerful, scalable and highly flexible data infrastructure at their disposal? On the other, the financial, technical […]

Improve Internet Performance by Diversifying Your Cloud Portfolio The enterprise is heavily invested in legacy infrastructure but is also rapidly ramping up its cloud, both at home in the data center and on third-party resources. Quite naturally, this points to the hybrid cloud as the only logical way to leverage both of these investments to […]

Five Innovations in the Data Storage Landscape It appears that enterprise hardware is doing quite well, thank you very much, despite the much ballyhooed rise of software-defined cloud computing infrastructure. According to IDC’s most recent Worldwide Quarterly Tracker, sales of servers, switches and routers are all in the black, with servers in particular showing the […]

Improve Internet Performance by Diversifying Your Cloud Portfolio Even though the cloud is becoming old news in the enterprise industry, there is still a lot of work to do when it comes to creating the kinds of data environments that meet the performance needs of emerging workloads. In many cases, the cloud just sort of […]

Key Principles to Web-Scaling a Network Now that enterprise infrastructure is gravitating toward more modular, white-box configurations, attention has shifted up the stack to find ways to squeeze more performance from virtual and cloud-based data environments. The need for advanced software-based architectures has long been apparent, but it is only lately that IT executives are […]

Amazing Growth in Data Requires Innovative New Solutions Flash storage’s contribution to the emerging data ecosystem cannot be overstated, and it seems increasingly likely that before long it will comprise the bulk of short- and medium-term storage infrastructure at most data centers. But beyond the constantly improving speed and capacity characteristics of the medium itself […]

5 Recommendations to Secure the Internet of Things Although the fully software-defined data center is more theory than reality at the moment, enterprises of all stripes are still keenly interested in lifting key applications off of hardware to reside in the more dynamic world of virtual infrastructure. To date, these efforts have focused mostly on […]

The Five Dos and Don’ts of Virtualization VMworld is as big and popular as ever, with legions of faithful swarming to San Francisco to see what the virtualization giant and its ecosystem of third-party developers has in store for the coming year. And without doubt, there is a lengthy line-up of advancements destined to propel […]

Amazing Growth in Data Requires Innovative New Solutions The enterprise is rightly concerned about Big Data, but it isn’t so much the size of the volumes that should be causing consternation but the speed at which they need to be ingested and analyzed. With knowledge workers increasingly gravitating toward the on-demand world of mobile computing, […]