- May 16, 2022
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G-Core Labs launches service to rent bare metal servers in public clouds
G-Core Labs, the international cloud and edge solution provider, has launched a new service: renting dedicated servers, or Bare-Metal-as-a-Service. This solution allows for a ready-to-use, physical service to be deployed within minutes, which can then be used in combination with the provider’s other services to build a flexible cloud infrastructure with simple resource management, balance and networks.
It does not always make sense to deploy high-capacity
services and apps on virtual machines, because “the virtualization tax”
prevents them from using all the resources of such services. Another source of
trouble is the distribution of one platform’s resources between different
users. When one customer overuses the server’s capacity, it’s the others who
must pay for it by losing their performance. Similarly, if one user has
malicious intent, their neighbours also share the safety risks. One can get rid
of these problems by obtaining full and exclusive access to all the capacities
of a physical server through renting a dedicated server, also known as a
bare-metal server. The problem, though, is that usually such solutions are
harder to buy than virtual machines, and one must wait longer to get it
prepared for work. Another issue is managing the infrastructure of a diverse
network of dedicated servers, virtual machines and cloud services from
different providers.
“G-Core Labs’ new offering, Bare-Metal-as-a-Service, solves
all of the aforementioned problems. It allows a user to order a ready-to-use
dedicated server as easily as a virtual one. They only need to select the
characteristics, connect a private network, a public network or several
networks at once, — and in a few minutes the physical server will be ready for
use. Unlike a virtual one, it allows all of its resources to be used and
guarantees the absence of ‘neighbors.’ Moreover, bare metal nodes are suitable
for tasks where virtualization is inappropriate, including deployment of
resource-heavy apps like gaming servers or databases, or creating storage
systems within the public cloud, use as hypervisors, or launching containers”, notes
Alex Federighi, deputy head of G-Core Labs’ department of cloud platforms.
The new solution, along with other services of G-Core Labs,
can be managed through a unified, user-friendly interface, which will allow
clients to easily build an efficient, stable, and balanced infrastructure in
the public cloud.
G-Core Labs offers proper cloud infrastructure within IaaS
and PaaS models, bare metal, and virtual servers on all continents, as well as
an international content delivery system, ready for any loads and integrated
with cloud object storage and a state-of-the-art streaming platform for OTT
broadcasting and video-on-demand delivery, along with highly efficient
protection against DDoS attacks and fraudulent activities based on a unique
technology of smart traffic filtration.
Thanks to the diverse ecosystem of services, users can get a
ready-to-use, flexible infrastructure where they can easily unite private and
public networks and manage dedicated servers, virtual machines, and other
solutions of the provider. This gives clients new opportunities to use the
public cloud. For example, it allows them to deploy demanding and sensitive
high-capacity apps over the “bare metal” servers, and if there is an extra
boost of load, it’s easy to add more virtual capacity within minutes, which can
easily be turned off later.
The high productivity of G-Core Labs solution is based on
Intel technologies: the cloud services work on Intel Xeon Gold 6152, 6252 and
5220; CDN cache servers, on Intel Xeon Platinum, and in April 2021, the
provider turned out to be one of the first in the world to start integrating
3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable (Ice Lake) in the server infrastructure of
its cloud servers.
Press release by G-Core Labs