For the performance and security sensitive user, the bare metal cloud may be the solution

Of the concerns I hear expressed about moving business resources to the cloud, two of the most common reflect potential issues with performance and security. The issues are severe enough that some IT people tell me they would never move certain workloads to cloud services just for these reasons.
Now there may always be workloads that are not appropriate for the current level of cloud technology, but basic issues of performance and security can be addressed by the bare metal cloud. In this environment, there is no virtualized environment, as is the standard way of dealing with on-demand server resources from the cloud, but rather a dedicated server available to the user in the same way that virtualized services are presented.
 
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