Arthur Cole

The public cloud is drawing the bulk of enterprise workloads these days, but in terms of application importance, the private cloud is likely to support the heart of data operations for some time to come. The challenge most organizations face, however, is establishing private clouds quickly and with as little disruption to ongoing processes as […]

The enterprise has come to rely on the cloud for an increasing share of its mission-critical workloads. This means cloud infrastructure needs to be available and reliable as never before. But there is a disconnect of sorts as to who is responsible for what when it comes to uptime, or even what to do when […]

Artificial intelligence (AI) in the enterprise is the source of both enthusiasm and trepidation as the knowledge workforce comes to grips with what the future of IT automation has in store. But while there is no shortage of predictions as to what AI can and cannot do for the data environment, one thing is certain: […]

If it were up to most enterprise executives today, they would already have production-level Big Data and Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure in place. Too bad it’s not that simple. It turns out that the biggest hurdle blocking this digital transformation is how to manage all of the unstructured data that these fast-moving applications are […]

Most enterprises are well on the way toward building a hybrid cloud these days, which is naturally leading to a wide range of designs and operation parameters. Some organizations, for instance, utilize a private cloud on premises and reserve the public cloud for temporary spikes in workload. Others create cloud native applications that may or […]

Enterprise infrastructure is gravitating toward higher scale, software-defined architectures and support for increasingly cloud-facing application workloads. This is putting pressure on IT budgets to trim their hardware costs and devise strategies in which commodity boxes can be swapped in and out of the data center with little or no disruption to data operations. But does […]

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is quickly moving from a general concept in the enterprise to a deployable solution that is producing concrete changes in the way basic functions are addressed. One key area that is ripe for a dose of intelligence is storage, which is under increasing strain as both the volume and complexity of daily […]

Threats to data and data infrastructure seem to be mounting by the day, and yet it appears that enterprises are starting to curtail their spending on backup and recovery systems. But does this mean businesses are remaining willfully blind to the dangers of a connected economy, or are there other forces at work causing a […]

Containers are said to be the linchpin of both future cloud and IoT infrastructure, but if the IT industry is not careful, it could wind up with the same disjointed, silo-based environments that currently hamper operations in the data center. This is why Docker’s recent announcement that it will support the Kubernetes orchestration stack is […]

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the next technology to enter the hype cycle, and while it will most certainly have an effect on IT operations, the details as to how it will be implemented and how to generate a maximum return on investment are still unknown. At the moment, of course, the key challenge is overcoming […]

The public cloud is growing at a rapid clip, but then again so are private and hybrid architectures. So what does this mean for legacy data center infrastructure, and exactly how will future enterprises manage their application and data workloads across such a varied and dynamic resource environment? According to Gartner, public cloud service providers […]

The tech industry is grappling with some fundamental issues in its drive to implement the Internet of Things (IoT); namely, where should all this new data be stored and processed? For organizations that have only just begun to sort out these issues between the data center and the cloud, the rise of the IoT edge […]