I have compiled a 10,000-foot view of Day 1 from my attendance at SIIA's "All About the Cloud"  conference.  In a post that's designed to be read in fewer than five minutes, I cover five major topics from yesterday's discussion.  Ready?  Go.

Fortune has unveiled its annual list of the 100 best companies to work for, and sitting at the top is business intelligence and analytics vendor SAS.

Not a bad day for privately held SAS, considering that it just announced that its revenue rose 2 percent in 2009, to $2.3 billion. That's 34 consecutive years that SAS has enjoyed year-over-year increases.

Big, big data storage news happening:  EMC has jumped into the ring to grab Data Domain to beat NetApp.

News outlets are putting the all-cash offer by the storage titan between $1.8 billion and $2 billion.