You said "The role of the CIO has to move from a builder of services for the enterprise to an orchestrator of services across private clouds and various public clouds."

Clearly, the benefits of superior orchestration will become more apparent as more CIOs choose to embrace a multi-hypervisor strategy -- to avoid legacy vendor lock-in and lower their prior cost burden from the proprietary virtualization solutions.

The growing trend towards Open Hybrid Cloud will surely increase the appeal of the Intercloud solutions from Cisco -- particularly for large multinational companies who seek a predictable offering that spans the globe.