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Cloud Computing Insider

David Linthicum

Hosted by cloud computing pioneer David Linthicum, the Cloud Computing Insider podcast gets to the bottom of what cloud computing, and generative AI can bring to your enterprise. New content will focus on what"s important to you as a user of cloud computing and generative AI, and the ability to find value the first time.

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16:12

The Executives Who Botched Cloud Should've Been...

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2026/02/16

In this video, David Linthicum delivers a blunt critique of how large enterprises mishandled cloud adoption and are now repeating the same mistakes with AI. He explains that many IT leaders treated cloud as a simple outsourcing and cost‑shifting exercise rather than a deep architectural and operating‑model transformation, baking failure in from the start. Billions were spent lifting and shifting technical debt into the cloud, only to see complexity, fragility, and run‑rate costs rise while

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36:30

RSAC 2026: The "Securing AI" Pivot Is Here (Agentic...

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2026/02/13

RSAC 2026 is shaping up to be the year cybersecurity stops talking about "using AI" and starts obsessing over securing it. In this video, we break down the top conference trends emerging from early session themes and Innovation Sandbox signals: the Securing AI pivot (agent governance, inference-time protection, prompt injection, supply-chain integrity, and data leakage), Identity as the new perimeter (machine identities/NHIs eclipsing human users, phishing-resistant authentication, PKI at IoT

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09:29

Why Google Cloud Platform is Behind, and What They...

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2026/02/12

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) lags in third place among the top cloud providers, despite impressive financial growth, due to systemic challenges and fierce competition from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. As of Q3 2023, GCP generated USD 8.4 billion in revenue, significantly trailing AWS's USD 23.1 billion and Azure's estimated USD 24 billion, reflecting its smaller market share of about 11% compared to AWS's 31% and Azure's 25%. GCP entered the market later, missing the early adoption

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21:01

The Jig Is Up for Big Consulting: A 2026 Buyer's...

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2026/02/09

For years, big consulting firms have been selling "cloud and AI strategy" as if it were a product you can just buy off the shelf. In 2026, the jig is up. This video is your no‑nonsense buyer's guide to how large consulting firms should be engaged for cloud and AI work—what to let them do, what to keep in‑house, and where you're most likely to get burned. We'll walk through the real incentives behind those "preferred partner" AI cloud recommendations, how vendor alliances quietly shape your

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14:17

Oracle's AI Data-Center Overbuild Could Break the...

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2026/02/07

Oracle is reportedly tied to roughly USD 56 billion in AI data-center financing, and Wall Street is treating it like a stress test, not a victory lap. In this video I break down why "build it and they will come" can turn into "borrow it and you will bleed." Data centers are fixed-cost monsters: power commitments, depreciation, and interest expense don't care if enterprise customers take six quarters to migrate workloads. If demand ramps slower than supply, Oracle's only lever is discounting—lower

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13:02

The Cloud Security Crisis No One Wants to Admit—61%...

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2026/02/02

In this crucial video, cloud security leader David Linthicum exposes a troubling statistic: 61 percent of cloud security incidents are completely preventable. Drawing on the latest security research, David reveals the most common—and avoidable—mistakes that leave enterprises vulnerable to cyberattacks, data leaks, and compliance violations. He breaks down the top culprits, from misconfigured cloud environments and weak access controls to lapses in ongoing monitoring and lack of employee training

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15:44

Azure Softness + AI Capex = The Public Cloud's New...

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2026/02/01

Why did Microsoft stock drop even after a headline beat? In this episode, cloud analyst David Linthicum breaks down the market's "beat-and-drop" reaction to Microsoft's latest earnings and what it signals about Azure, AI, and hyperscaler spending. He explains how expectations for a clear cloud re-acceleration collided with guidance that sounded more like "we're investing ahead of demand," raising concerns about capital intensity and near-term margins. Linthicum walks through the optics around Azure

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22:51

Why the Tech Industry Keeps Lying to Itself (and You)

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2026/01/26

The tech industry is brilliant at building new things—and terrible at admitting when it gets them wrong. In this video, I break down why our predictions about cloud, AI, big data, blockchain, metaverse, and more so often miss reality by a mile. From wildly optimistic analyst forecasts (including early cloud growth predictions that were way off) to vendor-driven hype cycles, we've built a system that rewards confidence, not accuracy. I walk through concrete examples where the narrative sounded

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19:26

Agentic AI Playbook Spam: Why "Proven" Agentic AI...

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2026/01/22

In this video, David Linthicum breaks down the sudden explosion of "agentic AI" playbooks, frameworks, and branded platforms now pouring out of the consulting industry. Every big firm wants to look like it owns the future of autonomous work, so the market is being flooded with glossy diagrams, maturity models, and "fast paths" that promise cheap, repeatable success—sometimes with language that feels close to a guarantee. But agentic AI is not a plug-in. It's an architecture, and architecture only

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09:42

Big Tech Is PANICKING Over NAS

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2026/01/19

Network-attached storage (NAS) is a dedicated, always‑on storage device that connects to your home or office network and lets multiple users and devices store, share, and back up data to a central box you physically own. In effect, it's your own private cloud: instead of renting space from iCloud, Google Drive, OneDrive, or AWS, you buy a NAS once and control the hardware, the capacity, and who can access it. This model is growing quickly; the global NAS market is already tens of billions of dollars

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17:27

Big Cloud's Default Trap: How Apple, AWS, Google, and...

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2026/01/15

Big Tech says it's "backup," "sync," and "convenience"—but what happens when your computer quietly starts moving your personal files into the cloud by default? In this episode, David Linthicum breaks down a growing industry pattern: technology providers designing defaults that automatically capture your data, route it into their storage platforms, and make that choice feel inevitable. We start with the Microsoft Windows 11 upgrade experience, where many users discover Desktop, Documents, and

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08:38

Why Serverless Is Just Lock-In with Better Branding

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2026/01/12

Serverless is marketed as "no servers, no ops, just code"—but that convenience hides a deeper tradeoff: long-term freedom. In this video, I break down how platforms like AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, and Firebase quietly lock you into a single provider, not through the language you write in. Still, through the glue you adopt: event formats, IAM models, triggers, logging, deployment pipelines, and tightly coupled managed services. We'll look at where lock-in really lives architecturally, why

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13:45

The AI Native Cloud Trap: How AWS, Azure & Google...

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2026/01/05

Cloud providers are quietly rebuilding their platforms around generative AI—and dragging you along for the ride. In this episode of Cloud Computing Insider, Dave breaks down how AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud are shifting from general‑purpose cloud to AI‑native cloud, where everything is optimized (and monetized) around GPUs, proprietary models, and tightly integrated AI services. We'll look at why this is happening now, how it shows up in your architecture and your bill, and why "AI‑ready" often

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12:44

RIP Cloud Computing Centers of Excellence (CCoE)

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2025/12/29

Cloud Centers of Excellence were supposed to save your cloud strategy—yet in most enterprises, they've become the single biggest bottleneck. In this video, David Linthicum takes a brutally honest look at why so many CCoEs have devolved into "Cloud Centers of No," strangling innovation while pretending to provide governance. We'll dissect how these committees burn time, money, and engineering talent with endless review boards, PDFs, and politics, all while claiming to be "best practice." But this

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11:49

Cloud News 2025: What Actually Mattered

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2025/12/26

In his "Cloud Computing Year in Review," David Linthicum offers a clear, opinionated look at how the cloud landscape has actually changed versus what was just hype. He situates these developments within the broader history of cloud, showing which "new" ideas are actually rediscoveries of long standing architectural principles. He walks through the major trends of the year – from the rise of multi cloud and FinOps to the deep integration of AI, data, and cloud native architectures – and explains what

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16:51

Somebody Is Lying About Agentic AI Adoption—and...

Cloud Computing Insider ·

2025/12/22

This video takes a hard look at the messy truth behind agentic AI in the enterprise — and why it feels like someone is lying to you. On one side, big tech vendors, cloud providers, and global consultancies are screaming that "2025 is the year of the AI agent," boasting about customers "deploying thousands of agents" across customer service, IT operations, and back‑office functions with massive efficiency gains. On the other side, independent analysts and people actually building this stuff say most

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14:52

Inside the Mind of a Cloud Hero: Sebastian's...

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2025/12/18

In this compelling video conversation, David Linthicum sits down with Sebastian Mondragon, CEO of Particula Tech, to explore the practical journey of repatriating enterprise workloads from public clouds back to on-premises or hybrid environments. With candor and technical depth, Sebastian shares his firsthand experience leading AI-driven businesses through the complexities of cloud repatriation—highlighting why it's not just a cost-saving measure, but a strategic move toward control, scalability,

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17:44

Ask Linthicum: No-Bull Cloud Q&A

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2025/12/15

Step into the heart of cloud computing as industry legend David Linthicum takes the hot seat on a special Q&A episode of The Cloud Computing Insider podcast. In this no-holds-barred session, David pulls back the curtain on the biggest myths, challenges, and game-changing trends that are shaping the cloud landscape today. Listeners submitted their most pressing—and sometimes controversial—questions, and David doesn't shy away from any of them. Whether it's cloud migration headaches, the real impact

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21:11

The Great GPU Scam: Why Your Cloud AI Budget Is...

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2025/12/08

Aggressively pursuing GPU adoption—whether in the cloud or on-premises—often leads organizations straight into costly traps. A surprising amount of infrastructure is chronically overprovisioned, with organizations buying or renting more GPU power than they'll ever use "just in case." This overkill results in idle or underutilized GPUs that drain budgets, mirroring the same wasteful patterns in both environments. Most enterprise workloads don't even need GPU acceleration, but the current industry

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25:46

AWS AI Agents: Innovation or Just Keynote Theater?

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2025/12/05

In this video, I'm going to unpack what I see as the bad side of AWS's latest AI push at re:Invent—specifically around agents and mega‑scale infrastructure. You'll hear a lot of polished narratives about "frontier agents," AgentCore, and AI Factories as if they're turnkey answers to every enterprise AI problem. I'm going to challenge that. To me, much of this feels like a rushed, "me too" sprint into the agentic hype cycle—an attempt to keep up with the fast followers rather than a confident,

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