The cloud is key to enterprise IT, supporting customer-facing applications and the tools employees need for their daily work. But agility and scalability gains can lead to eye-watering bills from providers.
More than half of companies say they’ve faced higher cloud costs this year, according to Vertice data. And Gartner projections say end-user spending on public cloud is set to grow more than 20.4% next year, reaching $678.8 billion.
Despite the sticker shock, organizations seek cloud implementations that can enhance how they do business.
