David Linthicum

David Linthicum
David S. Linthicum (Dave) is an internationally recognized industry expert and thought leader, and the author and coauthor of 13 books on computing, including the best selling Enterprise Application Integration (Addison Wesley). Dave keynotes at many leading technology conferences on cloud computing, SOA, Web 2.0, and enterprise architecture, and has appeared on a number of TV and radio shows as a computing expert. He is a blogger for InfoWorld, Intelligent Enterprise, and eBizq.net, covering SOA and enterprise computing topics. Dave also has columns in Government Computer News, Cloud Computing Journal, SOA Journal, Align Journal, and is the editor of Virtualization Journal.

In his career, Dave has formed or enhanced many of the ideas behind modern distributed computing including Enterprise Application Integration, B2B Application Integration, and SOA, approaches and technologies in wide use today. For the last 10 years, Dave has focused on the technology and strategies around cloud computing, and how to make cloud computing work for the modern enterprise. This includes work with several cloud computing startups.

More On The “Achilles Heel Of Cloud Computing – Data Integration”

In March of last year I posted a blog here entitled: The Achilles Heel Of Cloud Computing – Data Integration.  “In fact, what currently limits the number of cloud deployments is the lack of a clear understanding of data integration in the context of cloud computing. This is a rather easy problem to solve, but [...]

More On The Value Of SOA Data Services

Data services, data services, data services.  Do I sound like a broken record?  Forgive me if I seem obsessed with the topic, but I truly believe that technology can change your enterprise, and allow IT to finally get a handle on data in the shortest amount of time. The real value lies in SOA data [...]

Even More On Big Data And Data Integration

I was on the big data bandwagon before everyone began to jump on.  The value is very clear.  Simply put, it’s the ability to manage terabytes and terabytes of data as if it were just a small data set. Big data is possible.  We take a divide-and-conquer approach to processing queries and other data operations.  [...]

The Power Of Data

I was happy to do an architect-to-architect Webinar with David Lyle, which was more of an interactive conversation than a Webinar.  The focus was on the ability to provide integration using data virtualization, but the message was perhaps more profound than that. The core issues that many enterprises face are that information is largely an [...]

Performance And Data Integration

Most of us who create data integration solutions and leverage data integration technology don’t think much about performance until it’s an issue.  As with any technology solution, the fact that the solution works is one thing, and that it’s working well is another. Through the years I’ve dealt with many performance issues in the data [...]