How UK companies have wasted more than £270,000 each on cloud services

Sooraj Shah
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Sungard AS research finds that cloud computing hasn't been the silver bullet that many organisations were hoping for

The vast majority of companies in the UK (87 per cent) have encountered some form of unplanned cloud spend, with each organisation forking out an additional £270,000 over the last five years on unf...

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