The catch, however, is that these companies must not waste time in planning for a responsive IT framework as an essential prerequisite. IDC stressed that this is especially crucial for companies wishing to build their own private or internal clouds.

"Meanwhile, the demand for IT has not gone down and CIOs worry about coping with the turnaround as and when it comes through," Saxena noted. "This has to lead to the emergence of an adaptive and elastic IT framework, whether inside or outside the organisation."

In its conference titled 'Powering the Enterprise Cloud', IDC Asia Pacific will suggest important points for organisations to take into account as they plan for an enterprise cloud. Hosted by 13 Asia Pacific countries from November to December 2009, the conference in Singapore is scheduled on November 12. Seoul, South Korea became the first venue of the event last November 3. The last conference will be on December 15 in Hanoi, Vietnam.