Bare-metal servers in the cloud aid performance, compliance
August 9, 2013
Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Beth Pariseau.
It sounds like an oxymoron, but some cloud providers offer bare-metal servers — and some organizations consider them an appealing alternative to shared infrastructure. Cloud service providers that offer bare-metal servers include IBM’s SoftLayer Technologies Inc., Rackspace Hosting Inc. and Internap Network Services Corp. While bare-metal servers stem from a traditional managed hosting business for these vendors, newer offerings have a single interface for managing cloud and bare-metal assets, and they allow for more flexibility with bare-metal servers than was traditionally available in hosting environments.
"Just a few days ago, I said we needed a bigger RAID 10 array because our database size is increasing, and in about four hours I had a completely new database server," said Hrishi Dixit, chief technology officer (CTO) of LearnVest Inc., a financial planning services startup based in New York, which uses Internap’s Agile Hosting service for both bare-metal servers and cloud computing…
"In the old days, this would’ve taken a few weeks." Users of bare-metal services say there’s a performance advantage to dedicated hardware resources. Because of this, relational databases are good candidates for bare-metal servers…
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