What is bare-metal cloud?
September 6, 2013
Grazed from ComputerWeekly. Author: Adrian Bridgwater.
The cloud computing model of service-based IT delivery has been over-hyped, over-sold and (in many respects) over-talked. This space’s next big thing is the high-performance bare metal cloud solution. But what is bare metal cloud? Who uses it? What does it do? — and how should developers code for this environment?
Organisations’ collective demands for flexibility, scalability and efficiency have driven them flocking to public cloud infrastructure services, representing (as they do) an opportunity for cutting IT costs while capitalising on technology innovations. But, just a few short years into the cloud revolution, new options have appeared in response to the stress that high-performance workloads can put on traditional public clouds…
Degradation situations
Performance degradation can often occur, stemming from the introduction of a hypervisor layer. While the hypervisor enables the visibility, flexibility and management capabilities required to run multiple virtual machines on a single box, it also creates additional processing overhead…
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