It's a VM World Cloud Week as we open September.  Check out the rest of the week's cloud computing headline and post roundup.

Blog
Speak not of PaaS

Coverage
Interop NYC 2010 A1 Speaker List

Headlines
State CIOs rank cloud computing, green IT and social media as top emerging tech | Gov2.0
Intel and the Cloud - Federated, Automated and Intelligent | ReadWriteCloud
Cloud computing could be the next big thing in digital music | NPR
Cloud computing ‘number 2’ priority for CIOs| CIO NZ
CIOs Respond to 'Mega-Trend Trio': Mobile, Cloud And Social | San Francisco Chronicle
VMware Goes Beyond Data Centers to Control the Cloud | GigOm
From M&A to R&D, Cloud is Driving IT Activity | GigaOm

Resources
University Task force issues privacy, security recommendations for cloud computing | Univ of Michigan
IT chargeback management tips and turnoffs | SearchCIO
Private and Hybrid Architectural Design in the Cloud: eBay's Experience | Sandhill
Managing Service Levels in the Cloud | eBizQ 
Hybrid Cloud Computing Best Practices | Channel Insider
Finding the true value of cloud computing | Slideshare
Cloud Computing for Backup and Continuity: A Real Use Case for Cloud | CA Blogs

Industry Numbers
Why Aren't CIOs Using Cloud Storage? | CIO Dashboard
Adoption of cloud computing technologies in the public sector has become a viable option | IDC
Cloud computing by the numbers: What do all the statistics mean? | Computerworld 
Major telcos will be strong force in cloud computing, experts predict | DataMonitor

Events
Curtain Raiser: At VMworld, Cloud Will be Center Stage | GigaOm