However, we know that historic cloud investments haven’t always delivered value, and in some cases have actively generated wasteful spending. Some estimates show that almost a third of organisations’ cloud investment is inefficient, equating to approximately $25 billion of spending that is not creating real value for the enterprise. The reason this is happening is primarily a result of architecture inefficiency and value leakage. If these predictions for cloud infrastructure spending come true, this value gap is only going to get wider.
