Arthur Cole

Six Trends Shaping the Data Center in 2015 Container technology is quickly emerging as the main theme of enterprise infrastructure development this year, but as with any new technology, inevitably a high degree of confusion surrounds its capabilities and its role in emerging data architectures. Containers essentially pull a reverse on traditional virtualization – rather […]

Five Predictions for Hybrid Cloud Environments in 2015 The cloud industry has reached a level of maturity that is causing many enterprise executives to think of it as more than just a convenient means to offload general purpose data responsibilities. Increasingly, the cloud is being asked to provide more specialized services geared toward specific functions […]

A Closer Look at Converged Infrastructure Adoption Oracle has made a name for itself by providing tools that data users need to handle the big jobs. Whether it is database management, CRM, business intelligence or a host of other functions, Oracle usually has an integrated hardware/software solution at the ready. This has drawn a legion […]

Six Trends Shaping the Data Center in 2015 Despite the tremendous gains the enterprise has made in reducing power consumption in the last few years, energy will remain one of the leading operational costs going forward. But since, admittedly, the data center was not a very efficient creation to begin with, it is fair to […]

Looking Ahead at the 2015 Business Intelligence Landscape Big Data is quickly moving from concept to reality in many enterprises, and with that comes the realization that organizations need to build and provision the infrastructure to deal with extremely large volumes, and fast. So it is no wonder that the cloud is emerging as the […]

Embracing the Software-Defined Future: Looking Ahead at 2015 Whether you are planning a traditional data center build-out or all-new cloud infrastructure, the appeal of white box hardware is difficult to resist. Provided you need enough of a particular device to benefit from economies of scale, and you have a plan to layer all the functionality […]

Six Trends Shaping the Data Center in 2015 Following up on my previous post regarding hyperscale infrastructure, I feel I should point out that once the decision to go hyperscale has been made, it will most likely take place in a Greenfield hardware environment. Unless you are already working with a state-of-the-art data facility, any […]

Six Trends Shaping the Data Center in 2015 As the enterprise tries to make the data center more efficient in the face of rising operating costs, one problem keeps reoccurring: Disparate infrastructure makes it very difficult to determine what systems and solutions are in place and how they interact with each other. The data center, […]

Six Trends Shaping the Data Center in 2015 Everybody wants scale these days. Whether you are talking about expanding internal infrastructure or pushing workloads onto the cloud, one of the first questions people ask is, “How well does it scale?” This is understandable given the size of current workloads and the looming specters of Big […]

Six Trends Shaping the Data Center in 2015 Despite its widespread popularity in the enterprise, Flash storage is still one of the most misunderstood technologies in the data center. Part of this is due to its incredible versatility – it comes in a wide range of configurations and can be deployed in numerous ways in […]

Five Steps to Prepare for the Global Intercloud Now that the cloud has become all but mainstream in the modern data economy, people are starting to look for ways to improve upon the initial concept. After all, with fully virtual environments capable of extending across all manner of physical infrastructure, IT is no longer relegated […]

Considerations for Maintaining Critical Business Continuity Knowledge is power, but in the data center power is also knowledge, because without it all of your data is out of reach. This is why, of all the ups and downs that various data center technologies have experienced over the years, backup power has maintained steadily increasing demand. […]