The “Cloud” is the subject of an unbelievable amount of hype. Pragmatism is seemingly dead in the technology world; it’s been replaced by an endless stream of hype that is in no way connected to reality… I thought that perhaps that was just a product of the trend toward ERP systems in the late 90′s or the moves toward tighter application integration in the early part of the last decade. Now, sadly, I see that we simply cannot stand to be pragmatic in our assessments of new ideas and new trends. So it is with cloud computing.