The Bare-Metal Cloud: Cloud Computing’s Next Generation

Grazed from MidsizeInsider. Author: Sue Poremba.

The next generation of cloud computing could actually be found in a cloud format that has already been around for a while. The bare-metal cloud brings all of the advantages that have become synonymous with the cloud but minus one element — there is no virtualization.

The Need for Better Cloud Architecture

With the growth of technologies like the Internet of Things (IoT) taking up bandwidth and storage space, there is a need for better cloud architecture, Joe McKendrick writes on ZDNet. Cloud experts and researchers think that this can be accomplished in part by using bare-metal access, or “an alternative to the virtualization technologies currently used to share cloud hardware, allowing for experimentation with new virtualization technologies that could improve reliability, security and performance.”…

As David Chernicoff points out in another ZDNet article, “With the bare-metal cloud you get what most people see as the advantages of the cloud: the ability to rapidly provision and deploy services as your business needs them, with many of the advantages of colocation, and hardware dedicated to your business alone.”…

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