xkm1948 Never used cloud, never trusted cloud.

If you'd hire a VPS or something simular, your often being put on a large machine with many virtual machine's being active. As far as the above article goes, it looks like deu to a memory leak, users from one VM are able to read data of another VM which is a security threat. It's being handled by the CPU and the flaw looks to be inside the CPU. Hence the bios fix and hence the performance impact. Cloud or not, it makes no sense to deploy a complete 1U server for just one customer as you can put 50 VM's into one big 4U server loaded with CPU's, RAM, SSD's and such.Cloud is just another fancy term where more and more services are being offered in a datacentre such as remote backups, webhosting, VOIP and such. Before cloud you had the same services but today's standard is that it's more reliable then ever. Intel has a serious situation if this is true, and the performance impact being up to 35% lol. I remember somewhere an article that someone worked at Intel and basicly the manager said, we need to skimp out on testing CPU's and push them out alot faster then usual.If you skimp testing, these bugs cannot be found quickly enough, and once deployed in masses, intel has a serious situation.