I often find myself wondering why so many people are still yakking about these crazy little things called IOPS (input/output operations per second). Sure, I understand that the Solid State Drive (SSD) vendors needed a unique way to market their product and make it obvious to the consumer that this isn’t your typical hard drive. But these artificial numbers supplied by the manufacturer are always describing a pristine situation that you, I, and the rest of the world will never experience!  So what gives, and what does all this mean for Desktop Cloud Computing solutions?