Air Canada outsourced its IT to the vendor IBM. However, Air Canada also pursued a multiple-vendor sourcing strategy. To manage the complexity of integration between vendors and applications IBM was their integrator to bring these new applications into their main infrastructure. Given Air Canada's partnership with IBM and their stance on using specialized, best-of-breed airline products as a CIO I would have looked to moving our infrastructure and IT Architecture into cloud computing. Their goals as a company were to focus more on the core business and reduce costs. As a company, you can buy the exact amount of storage, computing power, security, or other IT function that we need when we need it, and pay only for what we use (Pearlson and Saunders