The Cost of Cloud Expertise report was developed by Rackspace to explore the importance of expertise to an organization’s cloud evolution and the impact the current technical skills gap is having on businesses. In collaboration with LSE academics and Vanson Bourne, we surveyed more than 950 IT decision makers and 950 IT pros from across the globe to better understand the barriers to increasing cloud usage, the impact this has on innovation and business growth, and the skills organizations require to compete in our technologically driven world.