Insider’s Guide to Cloud Computing, An, 1st edition
Published by Addison-Wesley Professional (March 16, 2023) © 2023
- David Linthicum
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Chapter 1: How “Real” Is the Value of Cloud Computing? 2
What We Thought We Knew.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
What Could Go Wrong?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
What Went Right?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Call to Action.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Chapter 2: The Realities and Opportunities of Cloud-Based Storage Services That Your Cloud Provider Will Not Tell You About 22
Cloud Storage Evolves.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Junk Data on Premises Moved to the Cloud Is Still Junk Data.. . . . . . . . . 23
Secrets to Finding the Best Cloud Storage Value. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
The Future of Cloud Storage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Call to Action.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Chapter 3: The Realities and Opportunities of Cloud-Based Compute Services That Your Cloud Provider Will Not Tell You About 44
The Trade-offs of Multitenancy.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
CPU Performance, Meet the Internet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Paying Too Much for Cloud Compute? Here's Why.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Picking the Right Operating Systems.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Picking the Right Memory Configurations.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
The Concept of Reserved Instances.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Going Off-brand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Call to Action.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Chapter 4: Innovative Services and Public Clouds: What Do You Really Pay For? 64
AI/ML.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Serverless.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
DevOps/DevSecOps.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Analytics.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Edge and IoT.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Emerging Technologies.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Call to Action.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Chapter 5: Containers, Container Orchestration, and Cloud Native Realities 88
Containers.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Container Orchestration and Clustering.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Cloud Native. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Technology Meets Reality.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Call to Action.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Chapter 6: The Truths Behind Multicloud That Few Understand 110
Hybrid Cloud Realities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
The Move to Plural Public Clouds.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Multicloud Upside Realities.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Multicloud Downside Realities.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Key Concepts for Multicloud Success. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Call to Action.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Chapter 7: Cloud Security Meets the Real World 132
An Insider's Guide to Cloud Security Fundamentals.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
What Cloud Security Worked.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
What Cloud Security Didn't Work. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
The Rise of Non-Native Cloud Security.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
The Rise of Proactive Security.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
The Rise of Security Automation.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Call to Action.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Chapter 8: Cloud Computing and Sustainability: Fact Versus Fiction 152
Initial Thinking: Cloud Data Centers, Bad.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
The Politics of Sustainability.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Finally, Sharing Is Possible.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Green Application Development?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Multicloud as a Sustainability Weapon?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
What Is Your Real Impact?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Call to Action.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Chapter 9: The Evolution of the Computing Market 172
Forced March to the Cloud?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
More Consumption, but Prices Stay Static.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
The Power of a Few Players.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
The Emergence of Commoditization.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
The Emergence of System Repatriation.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
The Rise of Federated Cloud Applications and Data.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Traditional Systems Remain…Why?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Battle for Human Talent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Call to Action.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Chapter 10: Here's the Future of Cloud Computing from an Insider's Perspective…Be Prepared 198
Continued Rise of Complex Cloud Deployments.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Refocus on Cross-Cloud Systems.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Changing Skills Demands.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Cloud Security Shifts Focus.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Cloud Computing Becomes Local.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Industry Clouds Become Important.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Where Is Edge Computing?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Call to Action.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Chapter 11: Wrapping Things Up: Miscellaneous Insider Insights 224
Cloud Can Make Life Better.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Changes in the Skills Mix.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
The Objectives Change.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
The Market Absorbs the Weak, and the Weak Emerge Again.. . . . . . . . . 237
Cloud Technology Continues to Be a Value Multiplier.. . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Call to Action.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
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David Linthicum is on most top-10 lists of technology innovators and influencers, including cloud computing, edge computing, AI, and security technology. David is a best-selling author of more than 15 books and more than 7,000 published articles. He is also the originator of many business-related technology concepts, including enterprise application integration (EAI). He's an innovator within service-oriented architecture (SOA), and now cloud computing and the use of cloud computing for digital transformations.
With his remarkable ability to design, explain, and implement technology solutions to solve existing business problems and create new opportunities, David rose rapidly through the corporate ranks from programmer to CEO, with stops in between that helped inform his holistic view of enterprises. Based in Washington, DC, David currently serves Global 2,000 clients as Deloitte's Chief Cloud Strategy Officer, where he drives new innovations and market offerings, and leads people and projects, as well as thought leadership outreach. This includes on the "Deloitte On Cloud Podcast," as well as several Forbes and WSJ articles.
David's 60+ courses on LinkedIn Learning consistently appear on the "Popular Courses" list and provide course content on cloud computing, cloud architecture, cloud security, cloud governance, cloud operations, AI, DevOps, and many other concepts related to cloud computing and enterprise technology in general. He's also an adjunct professor for Louisiana State University (LSU), where he's created courses on DevOps, Cloud Computing, Cloud Architecture, and other courses that are in demand by the LSU student body. David has done over 1,000 conference presentations in the U.S. and abroad, often as a keynote speaker at conferences related to enterprise technology. He has hosted over 2,000 Webinars on the correct use of enterprise technology, including cloud computing, edge computing, AI, DevOps, and data science.
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