There are a lot of opportunities for IT organizations to leverage cloud services. Many organizations are enhancing their existing infrastructure to take advantage of "cloud bursting"; when you need extra capacity for an activity, you can quickly leverage resources from the cloud rather than investing in those resources in-house.

Development/test and similar activities are also great cloud opportunities, allowing you to reduce capital spending and related data center costs while increasing speed and agility.

Companies that are hesitate to commit data to the cloud are developing models to store production data in their own facilities to ensure they meet compliance requirements while leveraging massive compute resources in the clouds for processing as needed.