In this multimedia teaching case, Michael Horton, CSC Australia's former head of account management for natural resources and government clients has an information technology issue to address. The issue is cloud computing involving a mid-sized organization, a mid tier mining company in iron ore who have their own in house systems running their own servers , their own desktop fleets and their own applications. Is there an option for them to go out and become part of the cloud either a private cloud or the public cloud?Visit casenet.ca for more free, open access decision focused video teaching cases from Acadia University.