Forgetfulness is the biggest cause of cloud price shocks
Procurement functions that cannot handle pay-as-you-go and daily payments are another hurdle, say web seminar panellists

The difficulties in ensuring that you're getting the best price for cloud services and the most common causes of large bills were among the topics discussed during a Computing web seminar this week...
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