Arthur Cole

How the Cloud Is Changing the Way We Work Of all the wonders that the cloud brings to the enterprise data environment, none is more intriguing than data bursting. For decades, organizations that wanted to ensure they had the resources to handle spikes in traffic had to build it themselves and then watch it sit […]

Debunking the Top Data Center Myths There is nothing quite so scary in the IT universe than tearing down what you just built in order to make way for a new technology. Well, perhaps complete and utter network failure, but that’s about it. But with the advent of containers, it seems like the enterprise is […]

Five Cloud Storage Tips and Tricks for CIOs A lot of people in the IT industry are pulling for the hybrid cloud. Enterprise executives are intrigued by the idea of low-cost, broadly federated data infrastructure distributed over large, geographic areas, while traditional data center vendors are trying to preserve their legacy product lines in the […]

A Guide to the Different Varieties of Flash Technology These days, hardly a data center on the planet has not deployed Flash storage in one fashion or another. The vast majority are using it as a high-speed cache to support their most time-critical applications while keeping the bulk of primary storage applications safely aboard spinning […]

Agile Federal Data Centers: The Drive to Thrive Whether it is the cloud provider looking to expand service capabilities or the enterprise facing relentlessly increasing data loads, there comes a time when the need to increase physical infrastructure cannot be put off any longer. However, this is no longer as daunting a prospect as it […]

Agile Federal Data Centers: The Drive to Thrive Everybody wants to see a greener data center. Environmentalists want lower carbon emissions, utilities want less strain on their infrastructure and the enterprise wants a lower energy bill. The trouble starts when the conversation shifts from developing a “greener” data center to one that is fully and […]

Five Cloud Storage Tips and Tricks for CIOs At the moment, there is no greater priority in enterprise IT than building out and leveraging the cloud. Organizations that make the transition successfully will reap the benefits of a more agile infrastructure and lower costs. Those that don’t will fall into obsolescence. But the sheer number […]

Key Security Considerations for Enterprise Cloud Deployments From the enterprise perspective, the knock against cloud computing is said to be its lack of security. But this is only partly true. It is more accurate to say that the enterprise fears the cloud’s lack of visibility, which then drives concerns about security, management, governance and a […]

Key Security Considerations for Enterprise Cloud Deployments It’s nice to be wanted; it’s even better to be needed. That pretty much sums up the enterprise industry these days as vendors and providers of all stripes fall over themselves to tap into the lucrative market for cloud-based infrastructure and application services. Not only is it driving […]

Five Cloud Storage Tips and Tricks for CIOs The enterprise has been so fixated on building next-generation virtual and cloud architectures that little thought is being given as to exactly how they will be used to further employees’ goals. With streamlined infrastructure and highly flexible resource configuration dangling dollar signs before the front office, it […]

Five Ways to Prepare Your Network for the Onslaught of Faster Wi-Fi Devices Automation of the data environment is quickly becoming a necessity for the enterprise, given the dramatic surge in volumes currently under way. But since automation in the local data center is difficult enough, how is the enterprise to cope with data architectures […]

A Guide to the Different Varieties of Flash Technology Despite the tremendous gains it has made over the past decade, storage is still lagging behind its compute and networking counterparts in terms of speed and performance. This isn’t an indictment of storage itself, mind you, as technologies like Flash and other forms of solid-state infrastructure […]