Our cloud computing roundup for Friday looks at Salesforce.com's new Service Cloud, running mainframe apps on EC2, Joyent makes an acquisition, and the latest take on cloud security.
Cloud roundup: Amazon takes seven months to fix a security hole in its cloud platform, Ovum warns users about cloud reliability, and Wall Street IT folks debate grid vs. cloud
Cisco is now extending its Data Center 3.0 vision to cloud computing, and sees its networking gear and technologies enabling an "InterCloud" of interconnected cloud platforms.
A Gartner analyst predicts "thousands" of specialized cloud computing providers will emerge, creating opportunities for systems integrators and VARs to act as service brokers.
At the Gartner Data Center Conference, 51 percent of the audience of enterprise users expects to be using external cloud services in some fashion by 2010.