Arthur Cole

2015: A Big Year for Cloud Computing Consensus is building that the cloud will subsume traditional data center infrastructure within the next decade. This is not to say that local resources will go the way of the dinosaur, but that whatever remains in the data center will be cloud-based. This means that both the hardware […]

Top Seven Priorities for IT in 2015 No doubt enterprise IT technology will be vastly different in five years’ time. We’re not just talking about better, faster, more flexible infrastructure, but a top-to-bottom overhaul of what data infrastructure is all about and how it should be architected for the new digital economy. But what gets […]

Five Ways to Prepare Your Network for the Onslaught of Faster Wi-Fi Devices When it comes to so-called “shadow IT,” the enterprise has three basic responses. You can accept it, you can fight it, or you can ignore it. Unfortunately, it seems that a large number of organizations are choosing option three, ignoring it, which […]

Top Trends Driving the Data Center in 2015 It may seem a bit incongruous to talk about solar energy when nearly half the country is covered in snow, but the data center is still the energy hog of today’s economy and is constantly ratcheting up its consumption with every new hyperscale facility. But even as […]

2015: A Big Year for Cloud Computing One of the more unsettling aspects of cloud computing is multi-tenancy. What CIO in his right mind would share servers and other hardware with total strangers, regardless of the cost? It turns out, though, that CIO decision-making has had very little bearing on this point, considering that the […]

2015: A Big Year for Cloud Computing It’s been known for quite a while that migrating workloads to the cloud is no easy task. The cloud may be highly scalable and ultra-dynamic data, but at the end of the day it must still be populated with data and applications just like any other infrastructure. To […]

2015: A Big Year for Cloud Computing The hybrid cloud remains the top infrastructure initiative in the enterprise, but it is a huge undertaking and leads into such deep, uncharted waters that it is by no means a smooth transition. Quite naturally, as the difficulties mount, more voices are starting to call the wisdom of […]

Five Innovations in the Data Storage Landscape At one time, it appeared that direct attached storage (DAS) was heading the way of the dinosaur. Networked storage was where it was at because you could manage a centralized array of disk and tape drives and distribute data to a wide variety of endpoints. Not only did […]

Top Trends Driving the Data Center in 2015 The data center is dead. Long live the data center. This may be a bit premature, but if the traditional enterprise data center is not dead yet, it certainly is approaching the twilight of its years. The latest word from 451 Research is that enterprise data center […]

Five Innovations in the Data Storage Landscape The enterprise desires a high degree of flexibility in the data environment, but it also needs to balance broad scalability with low capital and operating costs in order to accommodate Big Data and other heavy workloads without blowing the IT budget. This is why commodity hardware is looking […]

Five Innovations in the Data Storage Landscape Primary storage is quickly giving way to all-Flash arrays, a sign that competitive pressures to speed up data transfer and overall performance are superseding any lingering concerns about reliability and availability. But does the enterprise run a long-term risk for what is essentially an immediate gain, or will […]

2015: A Big Year for Cloud Computing Everyone in IT is anxious to see how the cloud shakes out. When all is said and done, what will the enterprise look like when cloud computing becomes the established model for IT infrastructure? And some are looking even farther into the future, wondering what, if anything, will […]