IT And The Bare Metal Impact

When it comes to the evolving world of Internet technology, the learning curve is ever growing.

Fortunately, bare metal computing simplifies the IT process, especially when big data processing comes into play.

If you're looking to get back to IT basics with your business's website, here are just a few ways bare metal computing can help:

Virtualization vs. Bare Metal

Your business's website is unique and deserves specialized attention in order to run at optimum capacity.

Getting back to IT basics and achieving optimal performance boils down to your server. In terms of hosted servers, there are generally two types you can choose from: virtual and bare metal.

Virtualization and bare metal have their own benefits, but the article "Addressing the IT Learning Curve with Bare Metal" makes a point that bare metal is better for dedicated users such as your business's website.

In other words, if your website is based on dynamic, multi-platform workloads with highly active applications, virtualization is the way to go.

However, your website likely doesn't require this type of processing power, which is where the dedicated resources of bare metal come into play.

Server Dedication

As mentioned above, server dedication is what bare metal was designed for.

When your business goes with bare metal, your website will receive all the resources of a server, but solely for one user. This results in increased performance as well as more processing power for your business's applications.

The benefits of a dedicated server also include increased IOPS, or input/output operations per second and improved network and disk performance.

All of these resources allow you to concentrate on your website and worry less about the IT side of your online livelihood.

Improved Scalability

With virtualization, your business is oftentimes paying for computing resources it never uses, especially if you're simply running a website.

Bare metal on the other hand has no fixed service storage amounts. This allows your business to use as little or as much of the dedicated server as you see fit.

A number of bare metal providers offer a "pay as you go" option where your business can pay for service by the minute or by the hour. Likewise, your business can scale forward or back with its IOPS usage as well.

Secure Computing

There's more to a dedicated server than better performance.

In fact, when servers are shared by multiple tenants it results in security concerns that aren't in-line with regulatory compliance.

Bare metal solves this problem by allowing your business to physically segment its resources on a dedicated server. This eliminates any interference from other tenants, especially those with malicious intent.

Quality Service

All of the pointers mentioned above result in one overarching theme: quality service for your business and its website.

Because your computing activities take place on a secure, dedicated server, the load distribution is balanced resulting in uninterrupted service, lightning fast processing speeds, and unparalleled network performance.

If your business needs an IT revamp, bare metal will impact your computing efforts in a positive way.