India, Feb. 13 -- The race to leverage cloud architecture and services to their fullest has some experts cautioning that enterprises may waste healthy chunks of money when they throw it at the problem. By some estimates, in 2019 more than $206 billion will be spent worldwide on cloud.

That has J.R. Storment -- Cloudability's co-founder and general manager for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa -- and others in the industry pointing out warning signs and ways to mitigate runaway expenditures. One of the factors, Storment says, is a shift in responsibilities at some enterprises as new cloud-driven strategies take shape. "There's typically a disconnect between engineers, who are not used to thinking about cost but are deploying resources t...