The Virginia Community College system had a problem. The IT department had run out of ways to cool its data centers. It was maxed out.

They explored going through the expense of transforming the building where the servers were housed or moving to a new building all together.

Virtualization helped sort things out. They discovered servers that were soaking up power but were doing next to nothing. The results came far faster than expected. The cost savings were almost immediate.

Today, business survival depends on IT innovation. Enterprise cloud computing presents CIOs with tremendous opportunities to deliver that innovation--by thinking like CEOs in order to play a strategic role in driving new revenue and reducing costs.

To help plan cloud strategies, Intel has collected expert guidance from within and without. This white paper include guidance from Intel CIO Diane Bryant, management consulting firm Bain & Company, and NYSE Technologies.