The cloud will fall into the background as the very way we relate to technology, communication, and accounting shifts.

FORBES: Oracle Cloud Tops 10,000 Customers and 25 Million Users

This has created a situation at some companies where entire departments have provisioned cloud services that fall outside the reach of IT governance, creating huge potential risks to the security of company and customer information.

FORBES: The Cloud: IT Execs See Huge Opportunities, And Serious Risks

Expect a big acquisition or two, or at least a Cloud laden OpenWorld next fall.

FORBES: Put Your Head In The Clouds

Too many organizations fall into the trap of going to the cloud for cost-savings and high availability, Staten says.

FORBES: Think Twice, Three Times, Before Moving Existing Apps to the Cloud

Microsoft added a cloud storage feature to the Xbox 360 in its fall 2011 dashboard update, but today an outage has taken it offline for the last several hours and counting.

ENGADGET: Xbox Live outage temporarily disconnecting cloud storage for some users (update: restored, free month of XBL)