Arthur Cole

Despite what you may have heard, we are not in the virtual era, nor the cloud era, nor the services era. We are in the software-defined era.After all,

Cloud-Hosting Preferences for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Software Colocation has been a fact of life for many an enterprise for some time now. And

How Well Do You Know the Cloud? The way some futurists envision it, the enterprise will not only be fully virtualized and cloud-enabled relatively soon,

Fast Five Ways to a High-Efficiency Data Center In this era of the cloud, deploying additional data center resources is a snap. All it takes is a cloud

Five Reasons Why HDD Is Dead and SDD Is Taking Over Another year is upon us and so is another round of speculation that solid-state storage is on the

Best Practices for Enterprise Cloud Computing From an infrastructure perspective, the cloud is a thing to be built. But from an application perspective,

Data centers across the globe have made great strides in lowering their power consumption.Virtualization alone has reduced the hardware footprint at many

Nine Cloudy Challenges for Databases It seems that the heady days of cloud computing are coming to an end, which means the real work is about to begin.As

For a while, it seemed like the importance of hardware in the data center would diminish to the point that it became an afterthought in most IT

The race is on among top IT platform vendors to establish themselves as leaders in the new private cloud industry.The problem is, no one provider seems to

The cloud represents an entirely new form of infrastructure for today’s enterprise. It is more flexible, scalable and costs much less to operate than

Desktop virtualization was once considered a novel, but largely impractical, development. It would be great to save on hardware costs by shuttling desktop