Cloud technology, specifically abstracting away physical machines and storage locations and allowing applications to gracefully scale their resource demand up and down based on rules and monitoring are useful to any large IT shop, regardless of the location or ownership of the datacenter.
Further, many institutions and corporations are organized in such a way that they function as a number of smaller groups contracting resources from a central IT provider, and in this configuration, a private cloud can be an immensely useful way to divvy up resources without having to work out down to the physical machine who owns what.
Further, many institutions and corporations are organized in such a way that they function as a number of smaller groups contracting resources from a central IT provider, and in this configuration, a private cloud can be an immensely useful way to divvy up resources without having to work out down to the physical machine who owns what.