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David LinthicumAuthor & Founder at Blue Mountain Labs |
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| Podcast: Randy Bias, Cloud Outages, and Firearms |
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April 29 2011 |
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| Contributors: Randy Bias & David Linthicum | |
| The Founders of Cloudscaling and Blue Mountain Labs discuss the Amazon Web Services crash and how some data was irrecoverable. They also talk about how the federal government is embracing the cloud and more. |
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| Article: 3 dirty little cloud computing secrets |
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April 28 2011 |
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| Every overhyped technology has good and bad aspects. The trouble is that few are willing to fill you in on the bad aspects. Doing so is often met with several dozen rounds of being called a hater. Cloud computing is no exception.
Here are the three major cloud computing secrets:
1. Some public cloud computing providers are falling and will fail.
2. Public clouds don't always save you money.
3. Using clouds can get you fired. |
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| Article: Why the hybrid cloud model is the best approach |
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January 27 2011 - InfoWorld |
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| Although some cloud providers look at the hybrid model as blasphemy, there are strong reasons for them to adopt it.
When the industry first began discussing the hybrid cloud computing model back in 2008, cloud computing purists pushed back hard. After all, they already thought private clouds were silly and a new, wannabe-hip name for the data center. To them, the idea of hybrid clouds that used private clouds or traditional computing platforms was just as ridiculous.
Over time, it became clear that hybrid cloud computing approaches have valid roles within enterprises as IT tries to mix and match public clouds and local IT assets to get the best bang for the buck. Now it's the cloud computing providers who are pushing back on hybrid cloud computing, as they instead try to promote a pure public cloud computing model. |
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| Podcast: Why SOA Governance is Critical to Cloud Computing |
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March 02 2010 |
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| Cloud Computing needs SOA governance to be successful. If you think about it, at the end state of our architecture we'll have thousands of services and data elements under management, and thus need to control how they are accessed, added, deleted, and altered. Therefore, we need an approach, processes, procedures, and technology, and that's called governance. In the world of enterprise architecture, governance means control, or to mandate the use of standards and approaches, almost a management concept. In the world of SOA, governance means designing, building, testing, and implementing policies for services, and monitoring their use. |
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| Podcast: Ten Cloud Computing Trends |
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February 10 2010 |
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| Dave talks about a recent article that discusses the "10 Cloud Computing Trends That are Rapidly Catching On" |
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| Presentation: Moving to Cloud Computing Step-by-Step |
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April 17 2009 |
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| Moving to Cloud Computing Step-by-Step |
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| Presentation: Finding the Intersection of SOA and Cloud Computing |
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April 17 2009 |
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| Finding the Intersection of SOA and Cloud Computing |
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| Presentation: Winning with Cloud Computing Step-by-Step |
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March 19 2009 |
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| Winning with Cloud Computing Step-by-Step |
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| Presentation: Where Cloud Computing Meets Enterprise Architecture |
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February 03 2009 |
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| A presentation from the Cloud Computing Summit at the Open Group event. |
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| David Linthicum's blog |
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| June 18 2013 |
| Claims that most organizations have moved, or are moving, to cloud email or cloud office systems don't square with research by Gartner: "Gartner estimates that there are currently about 50 million enterprise users of cloud office systems, which represent only 8 percent of overall office system use ... read more >> |
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| June 14 2013 |
| My editor recently mentioned a conversation he had with consultants who noted that the architecture of Salesforce.com's Force.com PaaS (platform as a service) embeds a lot of service-oriented architecture (SOA) approaches. That means developers who build applications using Force.com must use SOA to build an application -- t ... read more >> |
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| June 11 2013 |
| Last week, news broke that the NSA has been spying on Verizon customer in the United States. The bulletin came via the Guardian, which had obtained a copy of a secret court order allowing the NSA to spy on millions of Verizon customers. As reported by Glenn Greenwald: "The document shows for the first ... read more >> |
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| June 07 2013 |
| Speaking season will be over this month. So far this year, I've done more than 25 presentations at various conferences around the country and have spoken with hundreds of people who are building or using clouds. All of this traveling and interaction has provided more data points for me to share via this blog.read more ... read more >> |
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| June 04 2013 |
| Most people I speak with in the course of the day get cloud computing and are excited by the potential of this technology. However, there are those who view cloud computing as a passing fad. They're waiting for the hype to stop so that they can get on with buying servers and building data centers. At this point, perhaps they need an intervention. ... read more >> |
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| May 31 2013 |
| You've heard the stories: Divisions of a company build their own business systems to automate their processes, or they embrace utilities such as storage to solve their own problems outside of the prying eyes of central IT. This is not only a trend, but an all-out push driven largely by the use of cloud comput ... read more >> |
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| May 29 2013 |
| It's 2023, and you're going to lunch with a former colleague in your new flying car. The two of you wonder, "Whatever happened to cloud computing?" As a buzzword, like buzzwords of the past, cloud computing will eventually be baked into all our technology and barely discussed as a concept. Cloud computing in 10 years will have gone off in various directions, all systemic to how we handle enterprise computing in the f ... read more >> |
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| May 24 2013 |
| According to my friend Brandon Butler at Network World, "Dell has dramatically shifted its cloud computing strategy, canceling plans it once had to launch a public cloud service based on the OpenStack open source platform, and discontinuing an EMC VMware-based public cloud it already has on the ... read more >> |
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| May 21 2013 |
| As announced at Google I/O last week in San Francisco, Google Compute Engine is now available to everyone. This means you, not just the customers who pay $400 per month for Google Gold support. This is Google's answer to IaaS compute services -- Amazon Web Services in particular. ... read more >> |
| Books |
October 22 2009 Massive, disruptive change is coming to IT as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), SOA, mashups, Web 2.0, and cloud computing truly come of age. David S Linthicum explains why the days of managing IT organizations as private fortresses will disappear as IT becomes a global community. He demonstrates how to run IT when critical elements of customer, product, and business data and processes extend far beyond the firewall - and how to use all the information to deliver real-time answers about everything from an individual customer's credit to the location of a specific cargo container. This book offers a clear assessment of the challenges associated with this new world - and offers a step-by-step program for getting there with maximum return on investment and minimum risk. If you're ready to begin driving real competitive advantages from cloud computing, this book is the start-to-finish roadmap you need to make it happen. |
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