Kathy Gibson reports from CeBit in Hannover – Doubts that public cloud services are able to handle just about any workloads can be laid to rest with the news that CERN breaks out into the cloud when it needs more power to boost its own IT systems. Tim Bell, compute and monitoring group leader at CERN IT, explains that the organisation is the European centre for particle physics research. Most of the centre is underground, where a 27km ring fires beams of protons.