In recent years, a number of organisations have successfully deployed secure internal private clouds through server, storage and network consolidation, then outsourced the infrastructure to a trusted external provider. This can result in significant savings on the time spent by IT staff on maintenance and support, and allows the additional resource effort to be put towards aligning IT with the business, improving tasks like requirements gathering and adding additional value to business activities through the delivery of innovative technology solutions. In turn this results in better adherence to process and policy, reducing information security risk and improving staff satisfaction across the organisation.