A study carried out for service management software provider BMC, shows that as much as seventy two percent of senior information officers believe cloud computing has increased pressure on IT divisions.

The study of 327 chief information officers within enterprises, showed that CIOs believed that cloud computing is seen as a way to circumvent IT teams, and that the notion that cloud services could provide cost reduction and streamlined services, has increased the pressure on IT teams to deliver results.

The survey has raised concerns by CIOs that businesses risked increased security issues when cloud software was used to bypass IT divisions. Dominic Wellington, cloud computing manager at BMC, said: "If someone from the business team copies the data across to Amazon's public cloud offering, then suddenly the business's sensitive data is sitting out there in the open.”