Can you provision high-performance storage in a Cloud that will provide storage to a separate Cloud infrastructure? I was thinking about this and with the network guys having a love affair with iSCSI and it's associated technological topologies. Could you have a low-latency storage system on-demand in the Cloud (Public Cloud NOT Private Cloud). Currently it's not quite there to provide FC-like low latency storage to compute nodes. If you have a server that uses iSCSI you could potentially have that speedy enough to house it in a Public Cloud. Your design would require some good DR.
I can see a SATA based array hooking up to an Ethernet drop. At that point you could use some of Cisco's MDS line to provide FCIP WAN acceleration and provide storage to a completely different Cloud .... reliability would be an issue.
