Speaking to , CEO of IT infrastructure services business at Thomas Duryea, Andrew Thomas, said while there are a few formal Cloud frameworks in place, CIOs should seek advice from their peers about the move to Software as a Service (SaaS).

Thomas said CIOs should "talk to as many of their trusted advisers as [much as] they can around the types of options that are becoming available," Thomas said.

"Frameworks are few and far between, and I think that CIOs need to start looking at how to address compliance, risk and SLAs."

Thomas said that while many vendors may be offering a 'one size fits all' Cloud solution, this may not be the best path for CIOs to go down.

"It is about variety and choice and those organisations that have chosen to specialise in a certain area [of Cloud] are the ones that will continue to meet the needs of CIOs," he said.