Arthur Cole

If Dinosaurs Had Big Data, Would They Be Extinct? Big Data is turning into a big driver of enterprise infrastructure deployment, but this begs the question: Since so little is known about Big Data and how it can be used, can we make any firm decisions about how to support it with existing technology? According […]

Storage vs. Backup: What Your Business Needs to Know All things being equal otherwise, not many people would choose slower, more cumbersome storage over faster, denser solutions. In technology circles, however, things rarely are equal—especially on cost—which is why disk drives remain the most common form of storage in the enterprise. For example, the great […]

How to Better Integrate Cloud Apps by Managing the Integration Lifecycle It’s comforting to think that the enterprise is in control of its own destiny when it comes to data infrastructure, but in reality the industry is being swept along by forces largely beyond its control. This is nothing to be overly concerned about, of […]

Developing Tech: What’s Next? Enterprise data architectures will have to get a lot smarter in order to survive in the emerging digital economy. How smart? Smart enough to learn by themselves, apparently. Machine learning is starting to gather steam as the next big thing in the enterprise, according to a number of sources. The idea […]

Top Trends Driving the Data Center in 2015 If a picture is worth a thousand words, what is a good graphic visualization worth? For nearly the entire history of the data center, resource management has been a matter of interpreting various data sets regarding throughput and utilization and then making the necessary adjustments if the […]

Five Ways to Address Your Data Management Issues It seems that the prevailing wisdom in data center circles these days is that Big Data will simply be too big for the enterprise. When faced with the enormous volumes of sensor-driven and machine-to-machine (M2M) feedback, the enterprise will have no choice but to push the vast […]

Moving to the Public Cloud: Six Steps for Success That the cloud is a major boon to the enterprise is beyond question. At this point, it’s kind of like saying the CPU was a really good idea. But no matter how valuable the cloud becomes, there will always be questions over its design, implementation and […]

Five Innovations in the Data Storage Landscape New market data on the storage industry is out and the news does not look good for SAN, NAS and other forms of traditional data preservation. According to a recent outlook from Wikibon, we are on the cusp of a digital extinction event as today’s complex network storage […]

The Microservices Revolution: Five Points You Need to Know The term “service-oriented architecture” was once the hot buzzword among the IT industry. These days, it is rarely heard amid all the chatter around cloud computing, software-defined technologies and dynamic data infrastructure. But at the end of the day, we are still talking about roughly the […]

In the Cloud or on the Golf Course, Hazards Can Be Devastating By now, it should be clear to most enterprises that simply spinning up new cloud environments is not the answer to ongoing cost/performance issues. In fact, the cloud can actually aggravate these problems if not created and managed properly. Perhaps the most common […]

You Can’t Be My Cloud Vendor Until… Six Things You Need to Know Conventional thinking holds that cloud infrastructure is someone else’s problem. As long as service levels are being maintained, the enterprise need not worry about the design of the provider’s data center or the architectural underpinnings of its operation. This is short-sighted at […]

Five Innovations in the Data Storage Landscape The narrative in storage circles these days revolves largely around Flash vs. disk. But whether you think spinning disks actually have a future in the enterprise or not, an even bigger battle may be brewing for emerging data infrastructure: Flash vs. RAM. With emerging storage infrastructure gravitating toward […]