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    Arthur Cole

    With more than 20 years of experience in technology journalism, Arthur has written on the rise of everything from the first digital video editing platforms to virtualization, advanced cloud architectures and the Internet of Things. He is a regular contributor to IT Business Edge and Enterprise Networking Planet and provides blog posts and other web content to numerous company web sites in the high-tech and data communications industries.

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    The Cloud Is Becoming Increasingly Vertical

    The cloud is quickly expanding from a general-purpose data services platform to a series of highly targeted industry vertical...

    SMBs Warming Up to Hyperconvergence

    Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is typically thought of as a web-scale data center solution. But it turns out that the...

    The Multi-Dimensional IT Management Challenge

    The data center is on a clear trajectory toward greater abstraction, greater resource distribution, and greater diversity in both...

    Loosely Defining the Software-Defined Data Center

    The software-defined data center (SDDC) is on the minds of many enterprise executives these days, but aside from the...

    Self-Service in the Enterprise: How Much Is Enough?

    One of the overarching themes surrounding digital transformation is the need to get infrastructure out of the way of...

    IT Automation Has Only Just Begun

    Amid all the tension that surrounds IT automation these days, it could very well turn out that by the...

    VM Density: A Question of Balance

    Server infrastructure is shrinking in the enterprise. This makes a lot of sense because as more workloads are pushed...

    The Devops Chicken or the Agile Infrastructure Egg?

    Does devops lead to agile, or does agile lead to devops? Or perhaps they move in tandem as the...

    For Scale, It’s Best to Go Modular

    The enterprise seems content to build and maintain local data infrastructure despite the cost and flexibility benefits that exist...

    Working Toward the Integrated Hybrid Cloud

    Enterprises that wade into hybrid cloud infrastructure quickly come to a startling reality: Virtualization and hardware abstraction do not...

    Big Computing Emerges in Many Forms

    In the era of Big Data, the enterprise will have to embrace Big Computing in one form or another....

    Vendors Draw Battle Lines over Hyperconvergence

    Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is quickly infiltrating enterprise capital spending plans, which is naturally leading to increased competition among vendors...