Arthur Cole

Holographs, Liquid-State and DNA: The Future of Data Storage One of the main problems in introducing scale-out architecture to legacy data environments is the sheer number of incompatible formats, platforms and vendor solutions that have infiltrated the data center over the years. The drive to remove these siloes and federate the data environment under either […]

Earthquakes and the Modern Data Center Sometimes little things can contribute quite a lot to the big picture. This is, in fact, the basis for pointillist art, but it also applies to the data center where a major chunk of the energy efficiency gains of the past decade is the result of low-power processors in […]

Bandwidth and Network Speeds Exploding with Hyperscale Deployments It’s funny how technology always progresses to a higher state even before the current state has made its way to widespread use. First blade servers, then virtualization and then the cloud all made their way into the collective IT consciousness while most enterprise managers were still getting […]

Five Tips for Taking Control of Cloud Chaos The enterprise seems to be developing a love/hate relationship with the public cloud. On the one hand, the prospect of virtually limitless resources seems ready to take on any processing or storage load that comes along. On the other, issues of security, availability and portability threaten to […]

Agile Federal Data Centers: The Drive to Thrive Recent research is adding impetus to the notion that the cloud will abolish the data center as we know it. And in fact, there is a kernel of truth to this, although the change is not going to be as complete as some cloud enthusiasts would have […]

Earthquakes and the Modern Data Center The data industry is in the midst of great change, so it is understandable that it is experiencing a lot of uncertainty when it comes to planning and provisioning infrastructure. Many of the assumptions being used to guide buying decisions are simply that, assumptions, with no real way of […]

Key Security Considerations for Enterprise Cloud Deployments Most enterprises these days are on a two-track model when it comes to the cloud. On one track, they are provisioning public cloud services both as a means to lower costs and to gain experience in the nature of dynamic data architectures. On the other, they are building […]

How the Data Center Will Grow Up in Three Years To say that a lot of money is riding on the evolution of the data center is probably the understatement of the year. Without doubt, the old ways of doing business are coming to an end. Routine hardware and software purchases through long-standing channel relationships […]

The New Superheroes of the Enterprise Dell took the wraps off its post-privatization strategy last week, so now is as good a time as any to assess whether an “old guard” IT vendor can find success in the new mobile/cloud data environment. The pointed question, of course, is whether, in an age of virtual, software-defined […]

Holographs, Liquid-State and DNA: The Future of Data Storage If the data center truly is the dinosaur of the digital world, then it looks like it is about to enter its Jurassic period, where size suddenly leaps to a massive scale. So-called hyperscale infrastructure is driven by the need to handle massive data volumes at […]

How the Data Center Will Grow Up in Three Years Now that the software-defined data center (SDDC) is nearly upon us, enterprise executives need to start asking a number of pertinent questions; namely, how do I build one, and what do I do with it once it is built? In essence, the SDDC is more […]

Five Steps to Prepare for the Global Intercloud As a buzzword, it seems the term “cloud” is here to stay. But as a novel new way to build and provision data resources, the cloud is quickly moving into the IT mainstream to the point where it will soon be the standard means of data interaction. […]