Want Cybersecurity? Get Cloud. That’s the perspective of General Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency and commander of the U.S. Cyber Command.

Would anybody in your organization click a benign link to a news article, and then provide login credentials?

When you have a data center full of hard drives -- for example if you're running a Cloud -- then bad drives are a daily occurrence.

Dell's Boomi product is a full-fledged Integration-as-a-Service offering, positioned as the point of the spear for the company's Cloud strategy.

Qubole is a Big-Data-as-a-Service (BDaaS) service provider. Not hyperbole, Qubole.

The increasingly trusted Twitter service is one more front in the global Cyberwar we're woefully unprepared to defend.

If IBM PureSystems works as well as IBM says it does, it represents some serious enterprise firepower. But is it really a Private Cloud in a box?

So, is Amazon good or evil? You be the judge. Clearly, disrupting markets is in a different category from, say, outsourcing manufacturing to Asian sweatshops, but tell that to the targets of Amazon's disruption.

All signs point to the bad guys winning whatever Cyberwar you care to identify. At this rate, it won't be long until feuding groups of teenage Script Kiddies run the world.

Everybody says they're doing Cloud or offering Cloud or whatnot, but precious little Cloud was visible at the CloudConnect conference.