Originally posted on Cloud Tweaks.
The Bare Metal Cloud
Cloud computing is more complex than ever in today’s digital infrastructure landscape. For enterprises, a major goal that has emerged is the quest to optimize cloud strategies to suit business needs, which accounts for the rise in cloud repatriation and the resurgence of private cloud adoption as companies seek the solution that is right for them. Recently, another shift is taking place, towards innovative solutions that can keep up with today’s demands through more specialized and powerful infrastructure. Among these, bare metal cloud has emerged as a game-changer.
Understanding Bare Metal Cloud
Bare metal cloud offers direct access to hardware resources by providing users with dedicated physical servers. When a bare metal server is requested, the cloud provider rapidly provisions the hardware, installs the requested operating system and any accompanying software, and hands control over to the operator. From there, the operator can manage the resources through web-based portals or APIs. Through these interfaces, clients have the power to easily scale infrastructure up or down as needed.
While most traditional cloud services rely on virtualization and resource sharing among users, bare metal solutions ensure that clients do not have to share physical hardware through their unique single-tenant architecture, meaning that each server is dedicated to a single user. This prevents the issues of performance that can arise in multi-tenant environments by eliminating competition for resources. Clients also have full control over the physical server, giving them exclusive access to the infrastructure’s full processing power, memory, and storage. For clients that prioritize the ability to customize at the hardware level, this is ideal.
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