These massive facilities house clouds like Amazon EC3, Google Earth, and Apple iTunes.

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On the plains, there was nothing else to be seen: a vast, boundless expanse of scant grass under massive, low clouds, and no indication that a town might be near.

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If we peer through the clouds of government intervention, massive hedge fund bets, high taxes, lackluster consumer confidence, political uncertainty, and various other market distortions, we should be able to see the true market at work.

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Ahead, rising into the stormy clouds, is Mount Ngauruhoe, the massive volcano better known in the films as Mount Doom.

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But clouds quickly gathered, bringing rain and small hailstones, forcing people to take shelter under the massive colonnades lining the square for much of the Mass.

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