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“Cloud services can be unreliable and pricey, and they often duplicate capabilities larger companies already have in-house. So why do many managers within organisations use them? Partly because they don’t want to deal with their own company’s IT department. Getting a big project started is often such a politically fraught process that for many managers it’s easier to simply write a check.”