Where the rules are broken. Such an attitude often gives rise to 'shadow IT,' which is the use of infrastructure, services and applications outside the boundaries of an organization's corporate IT policies. Shadow IT, that targets cloud-based technology creates what is known as a 'shadow cloud.

Many CIOs in the mid to latter phases of their cloud migrations are increasingly trapped in a vexing quagmire — handing their CFOs massive monthly cloud bills with no ROI to show for it.

Every cloud provider offers discounts and built-in free optimization tools, but the fact is not everyone uses them. Only 36% of #AWS users take advantage of reserved instances, and 31% use saving plans, according to the Flexera State of the Cloud report. Those numbers are down from 52% and 44% last year, respectively.

Accenture, for instance, maintains that many of its clients in the 30% and 50% phase of their cloud migrations are absorbing exorbitant cloud costs when expected business outcomes have yet to materialize.

We have seen the cloud companies have massively increased the manpower to sell the cloud solutions by addressing certain fear factors. A report says, many CIOs have adopted the cloud model with a fear of how their jobs will be affected.

IT professionals may even want to prepare themselves to convert their enterprise IT infrastructures into private and/or hybrid clouds, and to take on the role of provisioning cloud services for end users and business partners.

#Cloudplatform salespeople were incentivized to sell as many cloud access licenses and cloud usage cycles as possible during the business downturn to enterprise buyers who were tempted by discounts and may have overcommitted for monthly cloud services that would not generate proportional ROI in an acceptable time frame.

Companies with a mature approach to cloud learned to control their spending, deploying strategies like guardrails on who c.