6 ways CIOs are bringing spiralling cloud costs under control
6 ways CIOs are bringing spiralling cloud costs under control
The pandemic has accelerated cloud usage, creating longer-term challenges for organisations looking to effectively manage their cloud costs. Credit: Dreamstime
After the business world reacted to the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 by shifting key systems to more-flexible cloud infrastructure, many are now having to rethink all of their assumptions about IT spending on the fly.
This shift which will persist well beyond the pandemic has led to many organisations finding it difficult to effectively track their cloud expenditure, both in terms of the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) they consume as more and more workloads move to the cloud and in terms of the number of employees using cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) tools to do their jobs.