Sixty-one percent of respondents agree that it will be difficult to provide the same level of management across public and private cloud services.

"CIOs sense the pressure that cloud is applying to their organisations and are prioritising the creation of a comprehensive cloud strategy for their firms in the coming year," according to the Forrester study. This strategy must create a path towards cloud in order to unify management across public and private, automate complexity, and create transparency so the business and IT can have real conversations about cost.