UK Chapter Research Update
Cloud is no longer new. It’s not been new for a few years now. I spent the first few years of my time working in cloud security saying “next year will be the year of cloud”. I’m not saying that any more. If my client interactions are anywhere near indicative of the wider environment (and working for one of the Big 4, I’d like to think that they are!) then 2015 was the year of cloud. I saw many clients, including previously reluctant multi-nationals and financial services organisations, moving live workloads to the cloud. They’d been dabbling with test and development for a while but last year seemed to represent a step change in acceptance of the use of cloud for the hosting of live services. So what does this have to do with research? Well, lots of the guidance I see out there still seems to be fairly high level and theoretical rather than pragmatic and based on the harsh lessons that can come from building cloud serv...