Arthur Cole

In times of rapid technological change, it can be difficult to separate myth from reality. Fear of being left behind has a way of producing a herd

With all the talk about virtualization and the cloud lately, it's easy to forget that good old-fashioned hardware still matters in the data

What, exactly, does the cloud bring to the desktop virtualization table? Quite a lot, in fact — so much so that it seems we can finally see a world in

Few would argue that the hybrid cloud is most effective when it is federated across a disparate, multi-vendor infrastructure. And even those who still

To hear partisans of modularity tell it, the data center as we know it will be all but unrecognizable within a decade. And while I'm usually leery of

They say a broken clock is right twice a day, so what are we to make of all the recent alternatives to tape-based archival storage and the subsequent

Data center infrastructure is undergoing significant changes across a range of hardware platforms, but server technology appears poised for a particularly

Security, availability and performance — you can almost recite the enterprise's list of concerns over cloud computing by memory these days. That doesn't

It seems all the stars have aligned behind software-defined networking (SDN). More so than networking virtualization, SDN represents true abstraction on

Of all the advantages the cloud brings to modern enterprise environments, the ability to disperse data and data infrastructure over great distances is

Ask most enterprise managers if they are willing to introduce all-Flash storage arrays into their data centers, and the answer is "sure." Ask them if they

There's a revolution going on in IT hardware these days, but it's not about making things bigger, faster and more powerful. Rather, this is a change in