The customers include Lionbridge, Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts (LIPA), and EmpireCLS Worldwide Chauffered Services, and the post focuses on how they use a combination of Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V server virtualization and System Center management tools to optimize their IT infrastructure and experience the benefits cloud computing has to offer.

FORBES: Real Customers, Real Private Clouds

The crisis in IT management I mentioned earlier comes about because the natural inclination of CIOs is to focus on infrastructure, the guild system, and the lack of management training and resources.

FORBES: Migration Strategy