Arthur Cole

How NFV Is Linking People and Machines Hyperscale infrastructure is starting to make its presence known in IT vendor and distribution channels, but the question remains: What, if any, benefits will trickle down to the average enterprise? Clearly, most organizations do not need the scale of a Google or Facebook, but they are still facing […]

Six Ways Open Source Benefits Your Business The enterprise has grown quite accustomed to virtualization, so comfortable, in fact, that virtualized infrastructure is now routinely used to support mission-critical applications. But you didn’t think the tech industry would allow you to get too comfortable, did you? Along come containers and immediately word starts to spread […]

Ten Recommendations for Simplified, Intelligence-Based Storage Management Flash storage is common in the data center these days, but aside from a few test cases, it is likely to share responsibilities with magnetic disk for a while longer. This is clearly a benefit to overall data operations, but it is not without some problems. Flash itself […]

Cognitive Clouds: Gaining a Competitive Advantage The cloud industry is starting to look a lot like the wine industry: Experts galore are ready to declare what is and is not a quality cloud, and hybrids and cross-breeds incorporate various components to produce a wide variety of options for consumers. The debate over the efficacy of […]

The Top Challenges for Network Engineers in 2015 Data center infrastructure is supposed to be the rock upon which higher order applications and services are built. So what are we to think when someone comes along and says we can do all kinds of wonderful things by severing the application’s ties to this foundation? In […]

Key Principles to Web-Scaling a Network Improving server utilization is like walking on a frozen pond during a spring thaw. The more comfortable the air temperature gets, the greater the danger of falling through. With utilization, the higher you go, the less overhead you have when the inevitable data spikes arrive. Sure, you could have […]

Moving to the Public Cloud: Six Steps for Success Saying that the cloud is becoming more specialized is like saying the days are getting longer now that summer is here: It is such a natural phenomenon that it barely needs to be stated. But I’m going to state it anyway, because this facet of cloud […]

Top Trends Driving the Data Center in 2015 Heat is a form of energy, and energy is a commodity. And commodities, of course, can be sold for a profit. So it is something of a misnomer to say that data centers are constantly dealing with the problem of waste heat when what is really going […]

Top Trends Driving the Data Center in 2015 It doesn’t take a lot of imagination to see the digital ecosystem as a series of concentric circles. On the processor level, there are a number of cores all linked by internal logic. The PC contains multiple chips and related devices controlled by an operating system. The […]

Five Reasons to Take Cloud Security More Seriously Cloud storage gateways (CSGs) are emerging as a quick and easy way to push burgeoning data loads onto the cloud, but are they right for every occasion? And can they be used effectively as a long-term solution within a broader hybrid cloud infrastructure? Organizations that are already […]

Key Principles to Web-Scaling a Network Is Dev/Ops for real, or is it simply the latest marketing tool to get you to buy more stuff for your data center? Or is it a little of both, a potentially revolutionary change to enterprise infrastructure management provided you can see through all the Dev/Ops-washing that is going […]

Top Trends Driving the Data Center in 2015 The issue of digital asset management is becoming thornier as the enterprise makes its way toward distributed, cloud-based data environments. What exactly qualifies as an asset, and who owns it? What is the best way to deploy and ultimately dispose of assets? And how will all of […]