You said "But what if you could put some or all of your workload in the provider cloud and not have to change anything?" -- Agreed, that would be helpful. Now, let's move up the value chain, and raise our expectations. What if your cloud management platform could automate the end-to-end provisioning process for Intercloud? What if the skill-set of the sysadmin was also elevated to focus more on achieving meaningful Business Outcomes from cloud service deployments? My Point: the savvy CIO demand for cloud effectiveness should exceed the demand for cloud efficiency, so let's raise the bar of expectations. Maybe that grand scenario seems like hybrid cloud utopia today, but one day it could become commonplace.