David Linthicum

Dave talks about the fact that the most popular Web APIs will be social-oriented and complex business-oriented. ... (more)

Dave talks about IBM's jump into the cloud computing space, and potential conflicts of interests that may arise. www.bluemountainlabs.com ... (more)

You've heard of downsizing and rightsizing, so how about Cloudsizing? As properly defined, Cloudsizing is: The improvement of efficiency and effectiveness of an organization through the selective use of computing resources that are delivered over the Internet Simple but powerful,... (more)

Dave provides insights from the Cloud Computing Expo event.www.bluemountainlabs.com ... (more)

The complete business angle for cloud Computing. http://www.economist.com/surveys/downloadSurveyPDF.cfm?id=12446057&surveycode=NA&submit=View+PDF ... (more)

Dave talks speaks with Tom Lounibos from Soasta on the concept of testing from the cloud. www.bluemountainlabs.com ... (more)

Dave talks about making a business case for cloud computing. www.bluemountainlabs.com ... (more)

Dave's Mashup/Cloud Computing Presentation at the IT & Business Alignment Forum in Vegas   "Leveraging Mash-ups in the Context of Critical Business Data" http://www.slideshare.net/Linthicum   www.bluemountainlabs.com ... (more)

Dave talks to the guys who started, and run, TheWebService.com www.bluemountainlabs.com ... (more)

Dave talks about the number of public Web APIs moving well past 1,000. www.bluemountainlabs.com ... (more)

Many organizations out there don't really have to sell SOA. They understand that hype is the driver, and, in essence, leverage the thousands of articles and books on the topic to sell this architectural pattern. However, in most cases SOA has to be sold in the enterprise. If you'r... (more)

You've always heard that you "get what you pay for," but that does not seem to be the case with the new cloud computing movement, specifically with Web APIs. Some of the best services out there don't need a credit card number, and I suspect that trend will continue until greater ... (more)

Dave talks about the concept of Web APIs in the world of Cloud Computing. www.bluemountainlabs.com ... (more)

I know, the economy is rough these days.  Myself, I'm unwilling to look at my mutual funds until we're through this.  However, when times are tough, markets normalize, and while the stock holders and venture capitalists out there are crying in their beers, now could be a great ti... (more)

Dave provides his thoughts on the Microsoft Azure announcement. www.bluemountainlabs.com ... (more)

Dave discusses recent InformationWeek article on Cloud Computing Adoption. www.bluemountainlabs.com ... (more)

As www.ProgrammableWeb.com points out, there are about two services or Web APIs added every week, and that rate continues to accelerate. There seems to be several types of providers. First are those that produce an API as an afterthought, such as a SaaS provider. Next there are t... (more)

One of the things covered in the recent Burton report was an instance where a new CIO was needed to get SOA going. In essence, the culture needed to change in order to accommodate the changes required to get a SOA rolling, and thus they changed out their CIO to change the culture... (more)

As we build services/APIs for use within the enterprise or cloud computing, there seem to be two clear trends for those who are consuming the services/APIs: they want to leverage APIs that drive social networking, such as Twitter and Facebook, and they want to leverage complex, ... (more)

In the last two columns we talked about the emerging platform of the Web, and the use of Web APIs found through directories. Now I have something to show you that lives up to that hype, in essence a layer of technology, on-demand, that lives between the API provider and the API c... (more)