Arthur Cole

Top Trends Driving the Data Center in 2015 It’s been said that if you want to go cloud, you must go modular, and both the enterprise and the rising tide of cloud providers seem to be taking this axiom to heart. But with increased modularity comes increased density and, by extension, greater heat generation. So […]

Five Tips for Choosing the Best Cloud Provider As I’ve mentioned often in the past, the enterprise is not transitioning to the cloud, but many clouds. And with the advanced automation systems hitting the channel, it will soon be a relatively simple matter to deploy workloads to the appropriate cloud with little or no oversight […]

Top Trends Driving the Data Center in 2015 Amid all the time, attention and money devoted to upgrading and improving enterprise infrastructure, we should keep in mind that it is still just a means to an end. While the specifics may vary, that end is generally considered to be improved productivity, streamlined infrastructure and a […]

Five Innovations in the Data Storage Landscape In the quest to implement a cloud-based data environment, building an effective storage pool is often the first challenge. Server infrastructure, and to a large extent networking, are usually good to go once they are lifted onto a virtual plane, but storage pooling is a bit more complicated […]

Five Tips for Choosing the Best Cloud Provider It seems that no matter how advanced the cloud becomes, the constant challenge is to integrate it with legacy infrastructure. The hybrid cloud is expected to help in this regard, but the enterprise will first need to build out private cloud capabilities, and that will take some […]

Top Trends Driving the Data Center in 2015 Data infrastructure has always been the rock that supported higher-level functions that in turn drove productivity and successful business outcomes. That role has not changed in the age of virtual distributed architectures, but the way in which the enterprise approaches the design and provisioning of infrastructure has. […]

Top Trends Driving the Data Center in 2015 Say this about the data center industry and climate change: There is no shortage of headlines touting advanced facility and infrastructure designs aimed at producing cleaner data services. But are these developments representative of the industry as a whole? And if not, how long will it be […]

Top Five Cloud Trends Expected in 2015 Despite some early difficulties configuring and deploying private clouds, the enterprise is still gung ho for them as a way to have a little piece of the cloud close to home for the most critical data. But the knock on private clouds is undeniable: Unless you are willing […]

Considerations for Maintaining Critical Business Continuity The virtual desktop is alive and thriving in the enterprise. That may come as a surprise to some considering most knowledge workers access data through either the trusty desktop or a mobile device, but the fact remains that the number of virtual desktop seats is growing and will continue […]

Five Innovations in the Data Storage Landscape Server and networking resources are routinely virtualized and consolidated, primarily because their utilization rates are usually low in their native states. Storage can be virtualized as well, but this is primarily on the networking side – at the end of the day, a bit is a bit and […]

You Can’t Be My Cloud Vendor Until… Six Things You Need to Know The cloud wants enterprise data, and so far it has been fairly adept at gathering the low-hanging fruit: mostly bulk storage, archives, B&R, low-level database workloads and other non-critical stuff. But the real money is in the advanced applications – the kind […]

Five Ways Service Management Combats M&A Hurdles Cloud computing and modular infrastructure are working hand-in-hand to remove the hassles of physical infrastructure from the enterprise’s list of concerns. If it all goes as planned, the loss of any one server, storage or networking component will cease to be the service-killing event that drives IT into […]