The Great GPU Scam: Why Your Cloud AI Budget Is Getting Robbed

The Great GPU Scam: Why Your Cloud AI Budget Is Getting Robbed

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 hype pushes adoption far beyond what actual business goals require. Making matters worse, soaring GPU prices aren't delivering transformative returns for mainstream use, meaning costs rise faster than the benefits. The common claim that cloud pay-as-you-go solves utilization issues is misleading: many companies simply leave pricey instances running, wasting just as much as they do on underused hardware racks. Only persistent, compute-intensive tasks like AI/ML training truly justify ongoing GPU investment. The bottom line: Regardless of environment, only strong governance, real-time observability, and right-sized, hybrid strategies truly control spend and prevent waste. Without tight oversight, both clouds and datacenters fall victim to the same needless overspending.

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

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

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, metavers...

26 Tammi 22min

Agentic AI Playbook Spam: Why "Proven" Agentic AI Frameworks and Strategies Are Not Working

Agentic AI Playbook Spam: Why "Proven" Agentic AI Frameworks and Strategies Are Not Working

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 li...

22 Tammi 19min

Big Tech Is PANICKING Over NAS

Big Tech Is PANICKING Over NAS

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...

19 Tammi 9min

Big Cloud's Default Trap: How Apple, AWS, Google, and Microsoft Capture Your Data

Big Cloud's Default Trap: How Apple, AWS, Google, and Microsoft Capture Your Data

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 ...

15 Tammi 17min

Why Serverless Is Just Lock-In with Better Branding

Why Serverless Is Just Lock-In with Better Branding

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 Funct...

12 Tammi 8min

The AI Native Cloud Trap: How AWS, Azure & Google Lock You In

The AI Native Cloud Trap: How AWS, Azure & Google Lock You In

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...

5 Tammi 13min

RIP Cloud Computing Centers of Excellence (CCoE)

RIP Cloud Computing Centers of Excellence (CCoE)

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...

29 Joulu 202512min

Cloud News 2025: What Actually Mattered

Cloud News 2025: What Actually Mattered

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 with...

26 Joulu 202511min

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