The Structure of the New IT Frontier : Market Oriented Computing

Enterprise CIOs focus to deliver return on investment and/or provide strategic advantage with applications and services that align to the business (and difficult for competitors to copy). Most CIOs have excess capacity and a huge investment in equipment. With an oversupply of servers and constant requests for more, they are looking to use their internal infrastructure more effectively. The recent global recession helped grow the hype around Cloud Computing as an alternative, and many are adopting the cloud ideas internally before buying whole-heartedly into the public cloud.