Cloud computing holds tremendous potential for transforming IT service delivery to significantly reduce cost of ownership and improve overall responsiveness and agility. However, related challenges, especially those pertaining to security, privacy, regulatory compliance, and interoperability are causing considerable variation in the extent to which different organizations are moving forward with cloud initiatives. IT departments should implement infrastructure solutions that are cloud ready. One such offering, the Citrix NetScaler line of application acceleration, load balancing, and web security appliances, helps establish a foundation that delivers many immediate gains and enables enterprises to accrue the benefits of cloud computing whenever and to whatever extent they decide to embrace it.