Consider Bare-Metal As A Viable Cloud Option

I&O pros face increasingly stringent SLAs for high-volume customer-facing transactions to serve a bold, dynamic BT agenda. VM-based IaaS cloud services have become a strong infrastructure solution for reasons such as agility, low cost, and high throughput. But hypervisor-based clouds can impose limitations. Forrester sees this with transactions that require stringent time windows and other high-volume and latency-sensitive workloads. In such scenarios, the business value is directly proportional to the available number of compute cycles within the window, and bare-metal clouds offer a powerful alternative platform. It's not for everyone, but it may fit well as another option in your overall service ecosystem. A bare-metal cloud offering allows you to flexibly provision dedicated physical servers with cloud semantics without any overhead from virtualization software. This report discusses bare-metal clouds, how they differ from conventional IaaS offerings, and how I&O pros can benefit from them.