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John Leonard

Research Director at Computing (The Channel Company), leading IT research on AI, cloud and enterprise technology spending in the UK.

Oct 5, 2026

4:53
What's the bigger part of IT budgets?
4:56
That's right.
4:56
We found out that AI is taking up, say, around about 5% or a little less of IT budgets, at least amongst our respondents, whereas cloud is more like 17%, 18%, I think it was.
5:09
So much bigger and the biggest budget item by far.
5:15
Controlling cloud costs is quite a challenge.
5:17
For the past few years, cloud prices have been rising above inflation.
5:22
And from our respondents' comments, that picture is the same this year too.
7:04
Is it all just talk or has there been a practical move toward that?

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