to facilitate pursuit of a common interest in top-notch technologies.
When virtual machines just don’t provide the performance you need, you need to get physical!
Bare Metal Cloud service gives customers the opportunity to enjoy the flexibility, provisioning,
and on-demand billing advantages of cloud computing. Bare Metal Cloud is our topic of the month.
Big Data cloud – should I use Bare Metal ?
“The Cloud”
Cloud computing, often referred to as simply “the cloud,” is
the delivery of on-demand computing resources—everything from applications to
data centers—over the Internet on a pay-for-use basis.
These services are broadly divided into three categories:
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). A
cloud service has three distinct characteristics: it is sold on demand,
it is elastic and the service is fully managed by the provider.
Big Data & “The Cloud”
Big data is broadly defined as the capture,
management, and analysis of data that goes beyond typical structured data,
often to unstructured files, digital video, images, sensor data, log files, and
really any data not contained in records with distinct searchable fields. In
some sense, the unstructured data is the interesting data.
Big data, by its nature, needs flexible resources such as
processing power storage and flexibility for processing a tremendous volume of
unstructured and semi-structured data.
“The cloud” basic
nature of flexibility and ease of scaling up and down as
required, sure look promising for Big data customers.
While the “common cloud services” grants tremendous flexibility
and reduces overall operation costs, it is just not appropriate for all Big
Data use cases. The “common cloud services” does not offer the performance
necessary to process real-time data without introducing latency that would make
the results un-useful. Performance degradation can occur, stemming from the
introduction of a hypervisor layer and the multi-tenant nature of virtualized
public cloud platforms.
In order to address the Big data customers’ needs for high
performance & real time processing, service providers are introducing new
services named “Bare Metal cloud”.
Bare-Metal cloud
The bare-metal cloud has emerged as a way to complement
virtualized services with a dedicated server environment that
eliminates the overhead of virtualization without sacrificing the flexibility,
scalability and efficiency benefits of the cloud. Bare-metal servers do not run
a hypervisor, are not virtualized, and can be delivered via a cloud-like
service model.
Bare Metal cloud infrastructure provides organizations with high performance accompanied with the full potential of cloud services.