Arthur Cole

Beware the Hidden Dangers of the Internet of Things The cloud is a powerful new weapon in the IT arsenal, but it is pretty clear at this point that most enterprises will continue to invest in local data infrastructure for the foreseeable future. This is in fact the more difficult strategy because it forces the […]

Seven Steps for Developing a Successful Disaster Recovery Strategy Some things never change, even in the cloud. No matter where data is stored, it still requires robust backup infrastructure that not only preserves data for the long term, but can also make it available at a moment’s notice. This has become increasingly challenging, however, as […]

Key Principles to Web-Scaling a Network As if the enterprise did not have enough to worry about already, it seems that the next big push to hyperscale architectures is on the horizon. Having sold the industry on the wonders of Big Data and the Internet of Things, the inevitable conclusion is that organizations will need […]

Five Ways to Prepare for the Enterprise Cloud For a long while, the cloud was seen as a convenient way to improve traditional data center functionality. Even as individuals and business units began to provision their own resources, the aim was almost always to tap the needed resources to support familiar productivity applications, with perhaps […]

The Five Dos and Don’ts of Virtualization If you blinked, you would have missed it. That’s how a future tech historian will probably characterize the virtualization era now that containers have emerged as the preferred architecture for data-driven applications. This isn’t to say that virtualization will no longer be a part of enterprise infrastructure, but […]

Key Principles to Web-Scaling a Network The data center is becoming more software-defined, with distributed, cloud-based architectures making bricks-and-mortar facilities appear more and more like single computing units, basically building-sized PCs, tied to a globally networked infrastructure. So it shouldn’t come as any surprise that the selection of the software platform, or operating system, for […]

Key Principles to Web-Scaling a Network The mainframe is back in business in the enterprise, a development that comes as a shock to those who predicted that the cloud would have taken over by now. In reality, the mainframe was never absent from the enterprise, at least in the really large ones that need to […]

Five Ways to Address Your Data Management Issues The Internet of Things (IoT) will be the next big thing to hit the enterprise, and when I say big I mean really, really big. Gartner currently estimates that there will be 25 billion connected devices by 2020 and that the IoT sector will contribute about $2 […]

Five Ways to Address Your Data Management Issues “The times they are a changing” would make a good theme for the enterprise these days. In virtually every aspect, organizations across the board are transforming into digital entities and are rapidly discovering the challenges and opportunities that this change represents. Some may argue that the enterprise […]

Six Steps to Achieve Enterprise Energy Intelligence Everyone wants to do more with less. In the data center, this means increasing the data load while reducing hardware, infrastructure, management and power consumption. While most of these items are achievable with virtualization and automation, the power equation is a bit trickier, if only because most people […]

Storage vs. Backup: What Your Business Needs to Know People have been calling for an end to the spinning disk drive for quite a while, but is it possible that it could actually come to pass over the next few years? The history of technology innovation argues against it. Rarely does something new come along […]

Study Examines Government Cloud Adoption and Shadow IT The enterprise has many reasons to convert legacy infrastructure into a private cloud: lower costs, greater flexibility and scalability. These are all perfectly valid reasons, but it seems that a key driver is the rise of shadow IT. According to new research from Cisco, shadow IT (and […]