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• How big is Cloud's impact? Depends on who's asking

  Is Cloud computing really catching on in the enterprise? Well, that depends on who you talk to, recent surveys have found.

• 5 ways to optimize cloud usage

  Designing and optimizing an IT environment that responds to demand in real time is one of the biggest challenges facing cloud users given the spikes and troughs in typical requirements. At AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas we met with users from a range of companies and listened to their concerns about usage and identified five main takeaways.

• 16 of the most useful cloud management tools

  One of the biggest concerns users have with public cloud resources is not knowing how much they will cost, given the pay-as-you-go model.

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  The Cost of Cloud Expertise Report 2017

  The Cost of Cloud Expertise report was developed by Rackspace to explore the importance of expertise to an organisation’s cloud evolution and the impact the current technical skills gap is having on businesses. In collaboration with LSE academics and Vanson Bourne, we surveyed more than 950 IT decision makers and 950 IT pros from across the globe to better understand the barriers to increasing cloud usage, the impact this has on innovation and business growth, and the skills organisations require to compete in our technologically driven world.