Two recent events reminded us this spring that cloud computing infrastructures are vulnerable to the same genetic IT flaw that plagues traditional data center operations: everything fails, sooner or later.

FORBES: The Good News About Cloud Architecture: Everything Fails

As I wrote in a story about R last spring the explosion of cloud computing and sensors is creating huge data sets, and a need to find previously unknown patterns in them, both to prove and predict how the world runs.

FORBES: Another Open Source Swipe at IBM and SAS

Just as Major League Baseball is moving to shake off its steroid cloud under the warmth of spring-training sun, one of its biggest former stars continues to cast a shadow over the sport.

FORBES: Clemens Case Goes To Justice Department

Fires had been set to clear the spring stubble, and a thin glaze of smoke hung over the road in a steady cloud.

NEWYORKER: The Reptile Garden

It also demonstrated new public cloud services from Boeing and General Mills plus a commissioned report by Forrester attesting to the differentiated economics of cloud platforms, something I talk about with CIOs in a report published this past spring.

FORBES: The Cloud Computing Market Grows Up