David Linthicum

About

David Linthicum, formerly the Chief Cloud Strategy Officer at Deloitte Consulting, is one of the most recognized experts in enterprise IT.

Cloud Native Winners and Losers

Also see: Deloitte’s David Linthicum on Optimizing Your Multicloud  First, a quick refresher: cloud native means we leverage services and systems found only on a specific cloud provider. When developers and architects refer to “cloud native,” they are typically referring to specific cloud services that won’t be found on other clouds or traditional platforms. These […]

Best Practices for Multicloud (that Cloud Providers Prefer You Not Know)

Multicloud is one of those topics that most cloud providers would rather not discuss. Why? Well, you’re admitting that their cloud is not the only destination for your applications and data. Also, and most important, they will be forced to work and play well with other cloud providers and do so as a stated policy. […]

The Future of CloudOps: Big Challenges and Possible Solutions

The most hyped areas of cloud computing include cloud native development, the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning, big data, and other areas of cloud deployments that people enjoy discussing when they talk about the future of cloud. In contrast, CloudOps (cloud operations – the management of a complex cloud deployment) is a topic […]

How to Fix a Cloud Deployment That’s Losing Money

Cloud computing will save you money.  Ten plus years ago that was a familiar refrain when the technology hype machine touted cloud computing as the best thing since sliced bread. Today we have over a decade of cloud deployment data that often disproves or redefines the context of that statement.  NetEnrich recently conducted a survey of […]

What’s the Real Value of AIOps?

In its simplest form, AIOps (Artificial Intelligent Operations) is a marriage of AI technology that’s been around for decades. AIOps arrived at its current incarnation from two different directions.  For example, the jointure of machine learning with monitoring and operations technology. Along the way, existing monitoring and ops players who may now support both traditional […]

Better Proactive Security Strategies that Cost Less

On a typical Wednesday morning, a cloud security engineer enters the office at about 8:00 AM and spends the next two hours culling through e-mails and text messages that report on minor security issues that occurred over the last 12-24 hours. These messages usually include things like phishing attacks where a small group of CRM […]

Why We Often Misunderstand the Synergy Between Edge Computing and Cloud Computing

We define edge computing as the ability to place some amount of processing and data near the sources of the data as well as near the systems or humans that need quick access to the processing. It’s a simple idea, and certainly nothing new. However, the popularity of edge computing continues to gather steam as […]

The New Focus on CloudOps: How Enterprise Cloud Migration Can Succeed

The numbers are in: The global cloud computing market has reached $250.04 billion in 2021 with a projected compound annual growth rate of 17.9%, which will reach $791.48 billion by 2028, according to Fortune Business Insights. Statistics vary, but most enterprises have migrated between 20-40 percent of their systems to the cloud or created net-new […]