David Linthicum
David S. Linthicum is a chief cloud strategy officer at Deloitte Consulting, and an internationally recognized industry expert and thought leader. Dave has authored 13 books on computing, the latest of which is Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence in Your Enterprise, a Step-by-Step Approach. Dave’s industry experience includes tenures as CTO and CEO of several successful software companies, and upper-level management positions in Fortune 100 companies. He keynotes leading technology conferences on cloud computing, SOA, enterprise application integration, and enterprise architecture. Dave writes the Cloud Computing blog for InfoWorld. His views are his own.
The private cloud is now a peripheral to the public cloud
The trend is providing a “Mini Me” version of a proprietary public cloud provider as a connected private cloud—essentially a public-cloud peripheral
The path to cloud security goes through integration
Making your cloud more secure is about talking to other security systems more than tossing technology at the problem
Don’t go overboard at the edge in edge computing
In many cases, centralized control in the cloud makes more sense than trying to do everything at the edge
Don’t let AWS Re:Invent blind you to your real cloud needs
All vendor trade shows focus on the vendors’ self-interest, not yours. Don’t get distracted by the shiny new objects, but instead use the shows to explore solutions to your actual needs
How to avoid Cyber Monday stress in your cloud systems
Some enterprises found that their cloud platforms didn’t scale infinitely as expected during the crush demand of Cyber Monday. Here’s how to prepare for next time
3 tips for negotiating with your public cloud providers
It’s the end of the year and time to renew public cloud contracts. Here’s how to get the biggest discount from your public cloud provider
How to avoid the coming cloud integration panic
The need to have on-premises systems talk to public cloud systems is becoming critical. But so few enterprises are prepared
Cloud security: The essential checklist
Are you trying to figure out security for your cloud deployment? You need these five types of security features in place
Fix your data before you move it to the cloud
In cloud migrations, I’m often taken back how the data that was bad on-premises is worse in the cloud
Don’t make your cloud migration a house of cards
If you have a cruddy applications design or overall architecture and relocate it the cloud, you end up with cruddy IT assets that are now in the cloud
