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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 | |
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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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| February 02 2012 |
| The news hit this week: "As of the end of 2011, there are 762 billion objects in Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service). We process over 500,000 requests per second for these objects at peak times," blogged Amazon.com This represents an annual growth rate of 192 percent. ... read more >> |
| January 31 2012 |
| Last week Amazon.com let it be known that it has launched a public beta test of Amazon Storage Gateway -- my colleague Matt Prigge has done an in-depth, hands-on look of it. This software appliance stores data on local hardware and uploads backup instances to Amazon Web Services' S3 (Simple Storage Service). The idea is to provide l ... read more >> |
| January 26 2012 |
| Be careful what you wish for: "Big Software" -- the multi-billion-dollar companies selling enterprise software -- have discovered the cloud, and they are now providing cloud apps and services. That should be good news, except that Big Software's history over the last 30 years shows it could easily get the cloud transition wrong -- and harm users in the process. So, here's my free advice to Big Software about the righ ... read more >> |
| January 24 2012 |
| The U.S. government continues its attempts to quell controversy about U.S. jurisdiction over cloud data that U.S. companies store overseas. This "can be traced at least in part to early efforts at a sort of digital protectionism in the form of [E.U. member] state efforts to promote European cloud compa ... read more >> |
| January 20 2012 |
| You would think that rank-and-file IT staffers and leaders would understand the advantages and disadvantages of cloud computing by now. However, the misconceptions continue to show up, some of which are disconcerting. Here are a few of the most common:read more ... read more >> |
| January 18 2012 |
| I watched the new product announcements at CES 2012 with much more interest this year. Why? Because the use of cloud computing has gone from few and far between to pretty much anything and everything. CES 2012 shows that shift in no uncertain terms. ... read more >> |
| January 13 2012 |
| The 2012 National Defense Authorization Act directs the DoD (Department of Defense) to transition from private clouds controlled by the DoD to public, commercial clouds. The idea is that commercial clouds can provide better service at a lower cost to the taxpayers. But ... read more >> |
| January 12 2012 |
| A funny thing happened to cloud computing over the last few years: Though everyone talked about cloud computing, the demand for cloud skills was healthy but not overwhelming, and certainly not in sync with the hype -- until now. The demand for cloud talent has officially caught up to the hype.read more ... read more >> |
| January 06 2012 |
| Cloud computing is going strong, and I suspect it'll peak this year or next. I know this because the hype is almost out of control and misinformation is plentiful -- the classic signs of an impending peak. It's a new technology, but the same old hype cycle. Although much good is going on in the cloud, as both the technology and the underlying architectures mature, the hype means we'll also see cloud providers pull so ... 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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