Cloud Insider

What happens when the cloud blows up?

When we plan for cloud failures, we need to consider more than power failures or network outages. Recent damage from the Iran war has impacted multiple availability zones.

By David Linthicum

Sep 29, 2026 6 mins

Business Continuity IaaS SaaS

IBM’s big cloud decision

Thirty years ago, IBM used a paradox mindset to navigate the rise of cloud computing with its existing mainframe and hardware business. What’s the lesson for today’s IT leaders?

By David Linthicum

Sep 25, 2026 6 mins

Cloud Computing IT Leadership IT Strategy

The EU cloud sovereignty trap

Chasing data independence may cost Europe more than it saves, especially with systems that must interoperate with international partners.

By David Linthicum

Sep 22, 2026 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing Data and Information Security

The cloud outage that should terrify the CIO

One cloud region, four AI giants, and a preview of what happens if your agents all share the same failure domain.

By David Linthicum

Sep 18, 2026 8 mins

Business Continuity Generative AI SaaS

The complicated AI infrastructure market

AI models get the attention, but the real story is how neoclouds are impacting the scramble for GPU compute, power, and data center capacity. Here is how to make sense of the companies trying to control the infrastructure layer underneath every major....

By David Linthicum

Sep 15, 2026 8 mins

Critical Infrastructure Data and Information Security IaaS

Cloud has a new bulk capacity market

The traditional cloud market just got more complicated as off-market capacity trades move into the open, and enterprise strategy must follow suit, especially where AI workloads are concerned.

By David Linthicum

Sep 11, 2026 5 mins

Critical Infrastructure Data and Information Security IaaS

Serverless AI: A survivalist’s guide

The cloud has given us the gift of abstraction when it comes to AI workloads, but you have to understand what you’re getting.

By David Linthicum

Sep 8, 2026 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cloud-Native Serverless Computing

Why digital transformations still fail

Spurred on by an army of enthusiastic consultants with prepackaged solutions, companies forgot that technology should serve business needs, not the other way around.

By David Linthicum

Sep 4, 2026 6 mins

Cloud Architecture Cloud Computing Digital Transformation

A look at AWS’s agentic toolkit for cloud migration

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore shows how AI agents could make cloud migration faster, safer, and more useful across heterogeneous enterprise platforms.

By David Linthicum

Sep 1, 2026 7 mins

Amazon Web Services Cloud Management Generative AI

Why enterprise AI projects keep failing

The problem is not the model. It’s the enterprise adding a model to bad data, poor processes, and missing governance.

By David Linthicum

Aug 28, 2026 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing Data Governance

AI demand meets grid capacity

The cloud will keep growing, but enterprises should not assume that infrastructure capacity, especially electricity, will materialize whenever they issue a purchase order.

By David Linthicum

Aug 25, 2026 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing Critical Infrastructure

Neoclouds become AI’s new power brokers

Mega AI infrastructure deals are reshaping cloud computing, but enterprises should slow down before buying their way into another generation of technical debt.

By David Linthicum

Aug 21, 2026 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Architecture Generative AI

The tug-of-war between AI and traditional cloud services

The AI revenue surge is impressive, but enterprise IT still relies on the core services that made the public cloud valuable in the first place. Providers would do well to remember.

By David Linthicum

Aug 18, 2026 7 mins

Generative AI IaaS SaaS

Cloud ops is different in a neocloud

AI-focused cloud providers can deliver attractive economics and scarce GPU capacity, but they are not administered the same way as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.

By David Linthicum

Aug 14, 2026 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Architecture Cloud Security

Navigating the AI data center capacity crisis

We should have seen this coming. The numbers were always wrong. That’s what I’ve been telling anyone willing to listen for the past two years.

By David Linthicum

Aug 11, 2026 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing

Three concepts cloud architects overlook

Are you too siloed? Are your cloud costs through the roof? Can your staff handle the complexity of your architecture? Ignoring the basics will cost you real money.

By David Linthicum

Aug 7, 2026 6 mins

Careers Cloud Architecture IT Skills and Training