See, I'm making the most of my recently discovered free(ish!) time by popping up in Computer Weekly talking about the adoption of cloud services by SMEs. Link below:
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2011/04/06/246204/CW-Security-Think-Tank-Whats-holding-up-the-cloud.htm
Some interesting differences in tone and opinions amongst the contributors to this Think Tank piece. When it comes to the use of hybrid cloud models I think I tend more towards the opinions expressed by Christofer Hoff over at http://www.rationalsurvivability.com/blog/?p=3016 rather than the view expressed by the chap from Gartner that cloud providers should be targetting SMEs with hybrid cloud services.
Hybrid is fine if you're talking about mixing your delivery of capabilities across on-premise and cloud, I've always had more of a problem with Hybrid as a way of delivering increased capacity on demand in that it's always seemed the worst of both worlds from a security perspective, i.e. you need to worry about the security problems associated with both models rather than just the one!
And, as Hoff says, "If your Tier-1 workloads can run in a public cloud and satisfy all your requirements, THAT’S where they should run in the first place!"
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