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    Arthur Cole

    With more than 20 years of experience in technology journalism, Arthur has written on the rise of everything from the first digital video editing platforms to virtualization, advanced cloud architectures and the Internet of Things. He is a regular contributor to IT Business Edge and Enterprise Networking Planet and provides blog posts and other web content to numerous company web sites in the high-tech and data communications industries.

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    Welcome to the Collective: Working Toward Infinite Virtual Data...

    The Five Dos and Don'ts of Virtualization The virtual data center is one of those things that sounded like...

    New Life on the Network Edge

    Key Principles to Web-Scaling a Network Data centers are getting very expensive to build and maintain. At the same...

    A Platform for Every Vertical

    Key Principles to Web-Scaling a Network Say one thing about the commoditization of data center infrastructure, it offers organizations...

    Cloud Costs vs. Cloud Value: A Complicated Picture

    The declarations came fast and furious this week following news of price increases for some key cloud services: The...

    Give Infrastructure a Break Through Better Data Management

    Ten Interesting Facts About Tape Backup It is easy to look at challenges to the enterprise data environment and...

    Taking a Good Look into the Cloud

    Cloud Contracts: Six Items CIOs Need to Know Before Signing Cloud infrastructure is just like any virtual infrastructure except...

    Disaster Recovery in the Abstract

    Seven Steps for Developing a Successful Disaster Recovery Strategy For all the wonderful things that abstract, distributed data architectures...

    Still Searching for the Optimal Cloud Environment

    Cognitive Clouds: Gaining a Competitive Advantage The cloud is assuming a greater share of the enterprise workload, but this...

    The Enterprise Data Center: Can It Last in the...

    Moving to the Public Cloud: Six Steps for Success To many, the data center is still the heart of...

    Data Center Evolution: Getting Hotter and Wetter

    Six Steps to Achieve Enterprise Energy Intelligence Liquid cooling is gaining, well, steam (sorry) in the data center as...

    Shifting the Cloud Debate to a Higher Plane

    Five Ways to Prepare for the Enterprise Cloud The lifecycle of any given technological innovation follows a fairly standard...

    IBM and the Long Game: Cooperation, not Dominance

    Six Mistakes that Lead to Poor Enterprise Software Adoption IBM is one of the more interesting companies to watch...