Oct 5, 2009 : SoftLayer Introduces Bare Metal Cloud
📅 - Company provides elastic computing without hypervisor, providing an option that is more viable for workloads that demand direct access to hardware.
SoftLayer Technologies, a provider of virtual data center services, today announced the addition of Bare Metal Cloud computing instances to its line of CloudLayer services. Bare Metal Cloud computing instances do not require a hypervisor, providing a cloud computing option that's more viable for workloads that demand direct access to physical hardware, such as databases and calculation-intensive applications.
According to the company, customers can select the number of cores needed to adapt to workloads and capacity required, with their choice of hourly and monthly rates:
Citrix NetScaler VPX offers IT departments the following benefits:
The company further lists the benefits of using their services, which include:
SoftLayer Technologies, a provider of virtual data center services, today announced the addition of Bare Metal Cloud computing instances to its line of CloudLayer services. Bare Metal Cloud computing instances do not require a hypervisor, providing a cloud computing option that's more viable for workloads that demand direct access to physical hardware, such as databases and calculation-intensive applications.
According to the company, customers can select the number of cores needed to adapt to workloads and capacity required, with their choice of hourly and monthly rates:
Citrix NetScaler VPX offers IT departments the following benefits:
- 2 Core - 2GB RAM -250GB HDD
- 4 Core - 4GB RAM - 250GB HDD
- 8 Core - 8GB RAM - 250GB HDD
- 16 Core - 16GB RAM - 250GB HDD
The company further lists the benefits of using their services, which include:
- Pay As You Go or Monthly Packages: Monthly billing is based on hourly usage or monthly plans with no long-term commitment, letting customers optimize their return on technology investment by paying only for the resources they need and use. Hourly billing will be offered in the near future.
- Immediate Scalability: Services are added in real time to accommodate unexpected or temporary changes in demand, providing exactly the level of IT power and capacity as needed, when needed.
- Ease of Use and Control: Full control via SoftLayer's Customer Portal and API provides streamlined, simplified management, as well as direct access to all SoftLayer services and tools.
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