Paul Boyns, head of IT Strategy and Policy at the BBC, warned businesses of the lack of development and maturity surrounding cloud contracts and services.

Paul speaking at the London Cloud Computing World Forum, warned of the problems facing cloud procurement due to the lack of best practice and standardisation surrounding the service, as well as the dangers of becoming locked into particular services.

Paul described how, “If you look at some of the key facets of cloud computing standards, they are not particularly mature. They are behind the times.”