CW Developer Network Latest Blog Posts Related Content Five ways to boost systems utilisation in the datacentre Interview: ONS data science chief Tom Smith on government data capability Download Current Issue This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Dick Morrell, who tweets at @ThatPodcastChap and describes himself as a father, podcaster, a Linux veteran and open source warrior. Morrell is also co-founder of SmoothWall, a real-time, content-aware web filtering, monitoring & records management solution. Morrell uses his several decades of experience working as a technology evangelist and commentator to explain what’s really happening in cloud implementations and why software engineers might just be finding the magical promise of cloud simplicity rather tougher than expected. As well as the above noted positions, Morrell heads up cloud and security training at QA.com and is a cloud and security ambassador for OpenUK.