Arthur Cole

Top Five Cloud Trends Expected in 2015 Ever since the cloud burst onto the IT consciousness, the primary focus of most organizations has been to prepare for this new data paradigm. The thinking has been that the enterprise needs to be ready for the cloud or risk being left behind. Lately, however, we’ve seen a […]

Top Five Cloud Trends Expected in 2015 It should be pretty obvious by now that most enterprises will not adopt “the cloud” as the next phase of data infrastructure, but many clouds. Indeed, with large numbers of employees embracing a variety of public services to process and store corporate data, many organizations already use multiple […]

Building Software-Defined Control for Your Data Center The promise of Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) is certainly alluring. Not only do you get to shift workflows across available resources, but you can then power down idle hardware and funnel electricity only where it is needed. In the end, this produces a better power-consumption-to-data-productivity ratio and […]

Top Five Cloud Trends Expected in 2015 It’s been said that the cloud represents a fundamental shift in the relationship between users, the enterprise, and the data with which they work. A key facet of this change is the ability to spin up virtual and even physical data center environments on a whim, which leads […]

Top Five Considerations for a Secure Cloud Configuration The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, and judging by the continued interest in private cloud solutions, it is fair to say that the sky is always bluer on the other side of the cloud, as well. Cloud providers have made no […]

Earthquakes and the Modern Data Center The hyperscale data center industry has made no secret of its desire to leverage renewable energy to the greatest extent possible. When you start measuring density in megawatts, any solution that helps cut the power bill is welcome. Lately, much of the activity has centered on wind, with top-tier […]

Six Ways Flash Is Changing the Storage Landscape The infiltration of flash storage into the data center is well under way by now, but what started as a general movement to increase performance of key applications has diversified broadly to the point that storage professionals need to carefully consider what kind of flash is appropriate […]

Bandwidth and Network Speeds Exploding with Hyperscale Deployments Data center infrastructure is rapidly transforming to a more cloud-friendly footing, and this will no doubt put an end to many longstanding design and configuration principles. One of the more widely suspected targets is the rack server, which, although useful in hyperscale settings, is still seen by […]

Building Software-Defined Control for Your Data Center Some interesting research came out last month regarding the enterprise’s attitude toward the cloud and what it will take to push more of the data load, and mission-critical functions in particular, off of local infrastructure. It turns out that while security and availability are still prime concerns, flexibility […]

Software-Defined Storage: Driving a New Era of the Cloud I’ve pointed out many times over the years that everyone has their own perception of green. To a coal plant operator, a 20 percent reduction in emissions is cause for celebration, while the environmentalist still frets over the 80 percent still coming out of the stack. […]

Five Ways Automation Speeds Up Big Data Deployments The enterprise is poised to embark on a number of data and infrastructure initiatives in the coming years, almost all of which are focused on the capture and analysis of Big Data. But while the term “Big Data” is appropriate to describe the scale of the challenge […]

Building Software-Defined Control for Your Data Center In the application-centric enterprise, infrastructure won’t really matter. Whatever you need to support, your application will be available at the click of a mouse. Well, not really, but it is fair to say that the application and application-layer management will consume an increasing amount of IT’s attention going […]