As businesses diversify and expand geographically, they’re discovering the need to deploy various types of infrastructure to meet specific requirements for different applications, high-performance processing, secure data storage and on-demand networking. Bare metal is an example of infrastructure that is helping companies meet increasing demand for high-performance computing (HPC) and processing power. Customers often ask me whether bare metal is a server or a cloud, and they want to understand the similarities and differences between bare metal and the cloud. In this blog post, I’ll explain what bare metal is and what makes it different from the cloud. I’ll also…

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