The IT benefits of bare-metal clouds

Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Paul Burns.

Although public infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) clouds have been widely adopted to drive IT agility and deliver new business value, confusion still exists about their defining characteristics. Many in the IT industry believe that virtualized infrastructure is a requirement for cloud computing. In truth, however, both virtualized and bare-metal infrastructures are well suited for building clouds. And both types of infrastructure enable the defining characteristics of cloud computing, including resource pooling, metered consumption, self-service, and elasticity.

The real question is how virtualized and bare-metal clouds are different, and in which cases the bare-metal option provides an advantage. CIOs and CTOs want to know which type of cloud will help them meet their strategic IT objectives. Infrastructure architects want to understand where applications will run best…

DevOps teams, meanwhile, want to learn which environment will help them deliver new applications quickly, and also manage them efficiently after deployment…

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