Bare-metal cloud- a tech explanation

Staff Writer/ June 22, 2021/ bare-metal cloud, Best practices for data center operations, Cloud computing, Cloud Storage, Data center facilities, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Public cloud and other cloud deployment models

Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesBare-metal cloud is a public cloud service where the customer rents dedicated hardware resources from a remote service provider. It offers the hardware resources without any installed operating systems or virtualization infrastructure. By Kurt Marko and Erin Sullivan Commercial cloud service infrastructure enables the virtualization and subdivision of compute, storage and database resources so that servers and storage arrays can

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5 types of server virtualization explained

Staff Writer/ April 11, 2021/ Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Server hardware and virtualization, Server virtualization infrastructure and architecture, Server virtualization management tools and practices, Storage virtualization

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesHypervisor-based might be the most common form of server virtualization in organizations, but there are other options to consider, including hardware-assisted and OS-level. By Clive Longbottom With virtualization, the network, storage and compute resources are abstracted, so applications, services and functions are less dependent on the physical hardware. IT administrators can provide applications, services and functions with their own environment

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storage virtualization-a tech definition

Staff Writer/ March 17, 2021/ Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, SAN Technology and Arrays, Software-defined storage, Storage virtualization, Tech Definitions, Technical Explanations

Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesStorage virtualization is the pooling of physical storage from multiple storage devices into what appears to be a single storage device — or pool of available storage capacity — that is managed from a central console. The technology relies on software to identify available storage capacity from physical devices and to then aggregate that capacity as a pool of storage

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