Cloud and VPS

Any discussion of virtualization today is inevitably going to lead us to cloud. Cloud has become, that hot decade-long buzz-worthy concept that everyone wants, most people use, and no one has a clue what it is, what it means, or why anyone uses it. Few technologies are more totally misunderstood, yet widely talked about, than cloud. So we have a lot to cover here, much of it clearly up misconceptions and the misuse of terms.

The bizarre confusion of Cloud

It is a rare combination of being vastly technical and non-applicable to normal business conversations while being constantly discussed as if it were a casual high level non-technical business decision at nearly all levels. Considering only a minuscule fraction of IT professionals have any serious grasp of what cloud is, and even fewer have a clear understanding of when to choose it, that the average non-technical mid-level manager will toss around the term as if they were discussing the price of postage stamps...