Arthur Cole

Five Steps to Becoming a Cloud-Ready Company It’s been said that the cloud is different things to different people, and while it is true that functionality in the cloud can be leveraged in many different ways, there also seems to be a growing divide within the enterprise when it comes to the rationale behind deploying […]

Top Five Cloud Trends Expected in 2015 The enterprise has barely gotten its feet wet in the public cloud at this point, but already most eyes are turning toward broadly distributed, hybrid environments. There’s nothing wrong with having a goal, of course, but when it comes to highly complex digital architectures, it helps to walk […]

How the Data Center Will Grow Up in Three Years The prevailing narrative in enterprise circles these days is that things will keep getting bigger: Big Data, regional data centers, hyperscale … everything is aimed at finding the magic formula that allows organizations to deal with larger workloads at less cost. It is ironic, then, […]

Considerations for Maintaining Critical Business Continuity Of all the changes that are headed for the data center in the coming year, it is easy to overlook the storage farm. Flash, after all, is old hat, and the basic role of storage is to be there when you need it, so it doesn’t have the cachet […]

Top Five Cloud Trends Expected in 2015 It is abundantly clear that 2015 will see continued migration of enterprise workloads to the cloud, and increasingly those workloads will be of the mission-critical type. This means that organizations will have to start exerting greater control over their cloud infrastructure which, in an ironic twist, will require […]

Building Software-Defined Control for Your Data Center No matter what happens in the data center over the next few years, whether it is software-defined networking, hyperscalability or a fully virtual data stack, it is comforting to know that the enterprise will come out the winner because infrastructure will be cheaper, more flexible and, in a […]

Building Software-Defined Control for Your Data Center Everyone has a Holiday Wish List, and data center managers are no different. But while Santa is not likely to cart a 42U rack server around in his sleigh, wishes can sometimes come true if you can make a compelling enough case to the elves in the front […]

Bandwidth and Network Speeds Exploding with Hyperscale Deployments Few things are as integral to the data center as the server. I know, technically it is only one leg of the three-legged data stool, along with storage and networking, but the server is where the actual processing takes place – the brains of the operation, so […]

Building Software-Defined Control for Your Data Center Tis the season for year-end wrap-ups and year-ahead predictions, so as in past years I will take a look at what some of the key industry players are saying and then offer my own take as to what looks real and what looks imaginary. One of the broadest […]

Earthquakes and the Modern Data Center Efficiency in the data center is a big thing now, with organizations of all sizes working to develop both the infrastructure and the practices that can help lower the energy bill. But while analysis of data flows and operating characteristics within equipment racks is fairly advanced, the ability to […]

Considerations for Maintaining Critical Business Continuity Data is the lifeblood of the modern enterprise, and as with most complex organisms, loss of blood can lead to weakness and death. So it is no wonder that data recovery has emerged as a top priority as the enterprise finds itself trusting third-party providers for the care and […]

The Top Skills Hiring Managers Want from Cloud Professionals It seems that the cloud has become such a common facet of the enterprise that the industry is starting to refer to it is a standard mode of data center functionality rather than an exotic new technology poised to upend everything we know about infrastructure. And […]