Arthur Cole

The Microservices Revolution: Five Points You Need to Know We’re hearing a lot about microservices lately, as both the cloud and emerging container technologies move toward broad distribution of the entire data environment, from infrastructure to the application layer. But what exactly is a microservice, and how will it improve upon the old way of […]

Top Trends Driving the Data Center in 2015 The words “rip and replace” are among the most feared in the IT lexicon—right up there with “denial of service” and “The CIO wants you in his office right now.” But now that the enterprise is contemplating a data environment that will propel business into the 21st […]

Five Innovations in the Data Storage Landscape Cloud computing is throwing a number of long-standing IT models out the window. For most of enterprise history, more was always better – more power, more capacity, more network pathways. On a fundamental level, this is still true, but it does not necessarily mean the data center will […]

Five Critical Questions to Ask Before Moving Data to the Cloud It’s no surprise that the cloud is emerging as the dominant form of enterprise information technology as the decade unfolds, but exactly how this is playing out deserves a closer look. According to IDC, the total revenues for cloud infrastructure – servers, storage and […]

The Top Skills Hiring Managers Want from Cloud Professionals The hype cycle is such a common facet of IT technology that it’s become almost a sport to predict where on the satisfaction chart a particular development finds itself at any given moment. The cloud has been riding the hype for nearly a decade now, and […]

Five Innovations in the Data Storage Landscape The global data load is about to surge as Big Data and the Internet of Things threaten to turn every device on the planet into an information source. While it is easy to see the promise that such an environment can offer, is the enterprise turning a blind […]

Five Tips for Choosing the Best Cloud Provider Like all technology initiatives of the past three decades or so, success in the cloud is coming down to a matter of balance. How do you weigh the lower cost and greater flexibility against the loss of control and heightened security fears that come with offloading infrastructure […]

Five Critical Questions to Ask Before Moving Data to the Cloud It might surprise you to learn that the vast majority of Big Data analytics takes place within on-premises infrastructure. This makes the most logical sense, in fact, because despite what you hear about the rise of the cloud, most Big Data loads reside in […]

Top Trends Driving the Data Center in 2015 Infrastructure is becoming less tangible as virtualization and the cloud take over, but that does not mean it is inscrutable. Indeed, abstract architectures can still fall prey to bottlenecks and other detriments on the physical layer, but it requires a new breed of monitoring platform to pinpoint […]

Six Trends Shaping the Data Center in 2015 Like virtualization, it seems that containers are going to work their way into the enterprise by stealth – that is, whether the people in charge of technology and infrastructure want them or not. Part of this is due to the advent of the cloud. The more the […]

Five Tips for Choosing the Best Cloud Provider The cloud has given business units within the enterprise a chance to do an end-run around IT when they need quick resources to complete a given task. The CIO is rightly concerned about this, given the security and governance issues that such free-wheeling activity promotes. But in […]

Five Tips for Taking Control of Cloud Chaos Everyone knew the cloud was going to be big when the term first appeared in tech circles five or so years ago. But the speed at which it is taking over data infrastructure and the enthusiasm it has generated in the enterprise are surprising nonetheless. As a […]