CHAPTER 13: LOOKING AHEAD

This book primarily concerns the current state of Cloud computing. I believe an appropriate way to finish is to engage in a look to the near future of Cloud computing and the attendant security implications. This chapter is purely my personal opinion on the likely evolution of Cloud computing, and you may well have different opinions.

Overview

There can be little doubt now that Cloud computing is here to stay: the agility and flexibility that Cloud offers cannot be matched by traditional delivery models; in addition, many global enterprises have materially reduced their in-house data centre footprints, so they could not bring workloads back on-premises even if they wanted to (at least not within reasonable time frames). ...

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