A new study by KPMG on cloud trends has revealed that companies are finding the migration to a cloud infrastructure costly with numerous security challenges.

More than a third of the 650 businesses who responded said that the costs were higher than they had originally expected. Respondents cited the need to make upgrades to their current system before migration was able to occur, as one of the reasons for increased costs and migration times.

The report revealed that a common trend included a feeling of having cloud services ‘hyped’ by vendors .