Cloud Tidbits

Articles from the Cloud Tidbits (IEEE Cloud Computing) column, edited by David S. Linthicum. David S. Linthicum is the Chief Cloud Strategy Officer at Deloitte Consulting, and was just named the #1 cloud influencer via a recent major report by Apollo Research. He is a cloud computing thought leader, executive, consultant, author, and speaker. Linthicum has been a CTO five times for both public and private companies, and a CEO two times in the last 25 years.

This collections includes 16 articles published between 2015 and 2018.

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2018 (2)

2018
Approaching Cloud Computing Performance
IEEE Cloud Computing 2018 (2); by D. S. Linthicum

Performance in a cloud computing environment is a complex topic.

2018
Dealing with Cloud-Driven Enterprise Complexity
IEEE Cloud Computing 2018 (1); by D. S. Linthicum

According to an International Data Corporation IDC report, the total worldwide revenue for all cloud computing by the year 2021 should more than double the…

2017 (6)

2017
Making Sense of AI in Public Clouds
IEEE Cloud Computing 2017 (6); by D. S. Linthicum

Artificial intelligence AI is best leveraged for specific types of applications that will benefit the most from this technology.

2017
Cloud-Native Applications and Cloud Migration: The Good, the Bad, and the Points Between
IEEE Cloud Computing 2017 (5); by D. S. Linthicum

Cloud-native features in your information technology it systems come with many advantages, but they also come with a cost.

2017
Are Cloud Service Brokers (CSBs) Still Relevant?
IEEE Cloud Computing 2017 (4); by D. S. Linthicum

Cloud Services Brokers, or CSBs, are important to the cloud computing mix.

2017
Cloud Computing Changes Data Integration Forever: What's Needed Right Now
IEEE Cloud Computing 2017 (3); by D. S. Linthicum

20 years after writing Enterprise Application Integration, data integration is still an afterthought when it comes to the cloud deployments I see.

2017
Connecting Fog and Cloud Computing
IEEE Cloud Computing 2017 (2); by D. S. Linthicum

There is a perfect storm of the use of cloud computing, and the growth of Internet of Things IoT.

2017
PaaS Death Watch?
IEEE Cloud Computing 2017 (1); by D. S. Linthicum

PaaS, or Platform-as-a-Service, is something that is not used as much as initially predicted within enterprises.

2016 (7)

2016
Moving to Autonomous and Self-Migrating Containers for Cloud Applications
IEEE Cloud Computing 2016 (6); by D. S. Linthicum

While we leverage containers for portability, moving containers from one cloud platform to another is still a difficult process.

2016
Practical Use of Microservices in Moving Workloads to the Cloud
IEEE Cloud Computing 2016 (5); by D. S. Linthicum

Most enterprises believe the cloud will become the new home for applications; however, not all applications are ready for the cloud.

2016
The Technical Case for Mixing Cloud Computing and Manufacturing
IEEE Cloud Computing 2016 (4); by D. S. Linthicum

Manufacturing has great potential for improvement through cloud computing.

2016
Software-Defined Networks Meet Cloud Computing
IEEE Cloud Computing 2016 (3); by D. S. Linthicum

Software-defined networking SDN removes the limitations of hardware by, for example, allowing the networking hardware's behavior to be changed on the fly.

2016
A Guide to Cloud-Enabling Your Software
IEEE Cloud Computing 2016 (2); by D. S. Linthicum

Most existing independent software vendors ISVs are struggling in a market where software solutions delivered using the public cloud model have a clear…

2016
Understanding Complex Cloud Patterns
IEEE Cloud Computing 2016 (1); by D. S. Linthicum

As cloud computing continues to emerge as the enterprise's enabling technology of choice, a fundamental challenge becomes simply understanding these complex…

2016
Emerging Hybrid Cloud Patterns
IEEE Cloud Computing 2016 (1); by D. S. Linthicum

The hybrid cloud model provides the best of the private and public worlds, combining the economies and efficiencies of public cloud computing with the…

2015 (1)

2015
The Evolution of Cloud Service Governance
IEEE Cloud Computing 2015 (6); by D. S. Linthicum

We leverage cloud governance for the simple reason that, once we get to a certain number of cloud services, we won't be able to keep track of them all and…