This week acquisitions were announced by VMware and Sony, Xeround announced a big product to its service and – most notably – Cisco and Amazon proved once again that the cloud is not bullet-proof.

A few days ago VMware acquired DynamicOps, a firm that makes software that allows customers to manage multiple cloud environments from one centralized interface. That is, one deployment could be running vSphere, another could be running Hyper-V and the third could be an AWS instance – and you can  provision them all using DynamicOps’ platform. Terms of the deal were not disclosed but SiliconANGLE founder John Furrier has word that it is valued at an excess of $100 million.

Sony in turn announced a big buy as well. It acquired Gaikai, a popular cloud service that makes a lot of sense as an asset for the electronics giant. Sony is behind Microsoft in the highly competitive gaming industry, and offering cloud capabilities with its existing portfolio could make the PlayStations more on par with the Xbox 360 in this department.

The third update comes from Xeround, a provider of database software that runs on many of the most popular IaaS’s out there. The company increased the storage cap on both of its paid plans and made the trial version available on the Rackspace Cloud.

While Xeround customers rejoiced that their feedback has been addressed, Cisco customers complained en masse over the update that the networking giant rolled out to its latest Linksys routers. The new cloud interface that was added is not accessible locally, and to add insult to injury this was coupled with a number of apparent privacy breaches.

Amazon stirred some fuss as well after a storm caused ‘elevated error rates’ for U.S users, an issue that was fixed within just a few hours.