Arthur Cole

Ten Recommendations for Simplified, Intelligence-Based Storage Management From a performance perspective, the all-Flash data center certainly makes a lot of sense. In an age when the movement of data from place to place is more important than the amount of data that can be stored or processed in any given location, high I/O in the […]

Five Ways to Prepare for the Enterprise Cloud The enterprise is rapidly shedding the static infrastructures of old in favor of a more dynamic, abstract framework. The natural result of this is the rise of data architecture over data infrastructure as the true arbiter of innovation and productivity in the new digital economy. This is […]

Five Hidden Risks with Public Cloud Usage Not many enterprises are willing to rely on a single vendor for all their infrastructure needs. And now that experience is gaining in the cloud, it seems this same ethos is transferring to hosted services as well. But the problem that many organizations are facing is that once […]

Top 10 Technology Trends for 2015 It is the rare enterprise these days that does not have some form of shadow IT in its midst. If you think otherwise, maybe it’s time to do a little digging into what your business groups have been up to. But while the consensus is that the enterprise should […]

Five Ways to Prepare for the Enterprise Cloud Most of the commentary regarding the cloud these days (mine included) focuses on the myriad ways in which abstract, distributed architectures can remake the enterprise as we know it. We talk of software-defined data environments, hyperscale infrastructure and advanced Big Data and mobile application environments that will […]

What Would Happen on a Day Without Data? Now that the cloud is becoming a common fixture in the enterprise, the IT industry is starting to look at how a cloud-facing, mobile-driven environment will affect that full data stack. Naturally, this is mostly conjecture at this point because many leading experts still do not know […]

Six Steps to Achieve Enterprise Energy Intelligence Virtually everyone is in favor of an energy-efficient data center. But if that is the case, why has the industry struggled so mightily to reduce power consumption? Even with the remarkable gains in virtualization and other advanced architectures, the data center remains one of the primary energy consumers […]

Six Mistakes that Lead to Poor Enterprise Software Adoption One of the often overlooked aspects of Big Data and the Internet of Things is the ability to model and simulate advanced data architectures. This is likely to become a crucial element in the emerging data-driven economy because it allows business leaders to further optimize their […]

Five Ways to Prepare for the Enterprise Cloud Now that the enterprise has gotten its feet wet in the cloud, the race is on to control and ultimately optimize cloud architectures in support of emerging data-driven business models. A key element in this process is the development of the private cloud, which in turn leads […]

Six Mistakes that Lead to Poor Enterprise Software Adoption The best part about moving data operations to the cloud is that you no longer have to worry about provisioning and managing infrastructure. The drawback, of course, is that you have to shift to a service/application-centric approach to management and then somehow integrate that with all […]

Top Trends Driving the Data Center in 2015 It’s been clear for some time that the traditional storage area network (SAN) has been under siege in the data center. With server infrastructure becoming increasingly distributed, both at home and in the cloud, a centralized array supported by advanced storage-optimized networking is increasingly seen as a […]

Top Trends Driving the Data Center in 2015 The prevailing wisdom holds that cloud architectures will float comfortably on a layer of virtualization that itself will rest on commodity hardware. As long as underlying bulk resources are available in sufficient amounts, all of the fine-tuning and optimization for higher-level applications and services can be done […]