As businesses and individuals move their operations to the cloud, it is becoming clearer each day that security and safety are two critical factors in any cloud deployment. With the right deployment strategy in place, spiraling costs can be avoided while moving applications and data from on-site storage or from one cloud to another. The biggest challenge has always been moving to the cloud without a proper strategy but rather as a knee-jerk reaction to a promised low cost by different vendors. One of such failure to plan can be seen from back in 2011 when the Cloud First policy was announced by the Obama administration. The announcement saw many companies and individuals moving their applications and data without taking into account various aspects of the cloud in comparison with on-site storage or comparing one cloud with another.

It is easy for an enterprise to become a victim of cloud sprawl over time despite their best intentions, negating some of the cloud’s benefits. Your enterprise can be subjected to this problem gradually without anyone even noticing. We will investigate the concept of cloud sprawl and offer some remedies to combat this ailment.