If you are like dozens of CIOs and IT leaders we interviewed in our recently concluded cloud research, your top concerns in adopting the public cloud would revolve around data privacy, security, availability, lock-in, and performance. Your cloud provider may have built the newest, shiniest, greenest and the most secure and highly available data center. All that would come to naught if your Internet access goes down or if your Internet connection slows down to a crawl! Certainly your cloud provider is not going to guarantee the performance or availability of the public Internet. Perhaps you can work with your Internet Service Provider to obtain higher-SLA Internet connectivity or perhaps you could procure a redundant Internet connection (which could increase the complexity of your network infrastructure).