David Linthicum
How to avoid Cyber Monday stress in your cloud systems
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November 27, 2018
How to avoid Cyber Monday stress in your cloud systems
Did your cloud application, retail or not, make it through Cyber Monday? Most did fine, but some found that a…
3 tips for negotiating with your public cloud providers
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November 23, 2018
3 tips for negotiating with your public cloud providers
The last time you renewed or got a new contract in place with a big pubic cloud provider, how did…
How to avoid the coming cloud integration panic
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November 20, 2018
How to avoid the coming cloud integration panic
You are trying to get an end-of-quarter report out and you’re having some trouble. It seems that while sales are…
Cloud security: The essential checklist
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November 16, 2018
Cloud security: The essential checklist
Cloud security is one of those things that everyone knows they need, but few people understand how to deal with.…
Fix your data before you move it to the cloud
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November 13, 2018
Fix your data before you move it to the cloud
Data seems to be a forgotten component of a good system architecture. In cloud migrations, I’m often taken back how…
Don’t make your cloud migration a house of cards
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November 9, 2018
Don’t make your cloud migration a house of cards
I’m often taken aback by the number of mistakes IT made with on-premises traditional systems that it’s now replicating in…
How to get your company to handle the cloud truth
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November 6, 2018
How to get your company to handle the cloud truth
As a technologist, I can get the cloud technology to work. Always. But the ability to change the culture to…
The ‘born in the cloud’ advantage is real, but not absolute
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November 2, 2018
The ‘born in the cloud’ advantage is real, but not absolute
You often see companies, especially new ones, state that they are “born in the cloud.” But what does that mean?…
How to deal with big cloud acquisitions like IBM’s Red Hat purchase
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October 29, 2018
How to deal with big cloud acquisitions like IBM’s Red Hat purchase
We’ll see more big deals like IBM’s purchase of Red Hat next year. Here’s why: The big enterprise tech companies…
How to deal with big cloud acquisitions
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October 29, 2018
How to deal with big cloud acquisitions
We’ll see more big cloud deals next year. Here’s why: The big enterprise tech companies are losing market share to…
How the cloud has made you more secure
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October 26, 2018
How the cloud has made you more secure
Wow, we are near to having 20 percent of our enterprise workloads in the cloud and the world has not…
The forced march to cloud computing
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October 23, 2018
The forced march to cloud computing
Four of the Top 5 spenders on R&D are also public cloud providers (Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Apple), according to…
Devops is mandatory for multicloud deployments
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October 19, 2018
Devops is mandatory for multicloud deployments
A survey of 1,106 business and technology executives published by the IBM Institute for Business Value, finds that 85 percent…
Steel yourself for the cloud hangover
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October 16, 2018
Steel yourself for the cloud hangover
A poll of 250 IT decision makers across North America conducted by managed services provider Softchoice that polled found preparation…
Multicloud does not eliminate vendor lockin
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October 12, 2018
Multicloud does not eliminate vendor lockin
Not to name names, but I’ve been reading in several publications that one of the main reasons to go to…