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In the latest episode of Uptime with Data Center Knowledge, we look at the evolution of bare metal servers.

To find out more about the subject, we chat to bothers Jacob and Zachary Smith – co-founders of Packet, a bare metal hosting service that was acquired by data center giant Equinix in 2020, in a deal worth $335 million. Packet became the foundation of the new Equinix Metal business, led by Zac as its managing director, and Jacob – as the VP of bare metal strategy and marketing

Correction: Soon after we recorded this episode, Zac was promoted to head of edge infrastructure services at Equinix, and Jacob – to interim lead of the digital services…

A virtual machine monitor, also known as VMM is called a hypervisor. It is nothing but a type of virtualization software that helps in creating new virtual machines (VMs), ensuring that a computer’s hardware is separated from its software. The job of a hypervisor is to translate the request between physical and virtual resources, thereby ensuring the completion of the virtualization task. A hypervisor is called a bare-metal hypervisor when it is installed on the hardware of a physical machine, and it sits between the operating system and the hardware.

In some cases, the bare metal hypervisors are directly embedded into the machine’s core hardware, and it sits with the motherboard BIOS (basic input/output system). This is done in a few systems to enable the operating system on…

Content production is increasing rapidly, and so are data transfer speeds. Providers who are eager to stimulate demand for their services must consider users’ requests. Dedicated servers as-a-service, which we are all accustomed to, are the best option to choose.

Verizon Media makes use of hundreds of thousands of machines with more than 4 million cores. Two years ago, Verizon Media senior director architect James Penick said, “We’ve understood that we need to build a foundation before building the house. Bare metal servers form the basis of our infrastructure. It’s like hardening the building using concrete and reinforcing bars.”

Bare metal servers help Verizon Media to create the ideal infrastructure for performance optimisation and carry out standard quota requests within a few…

OVHcloud has announced a new lineup of mid-range dedicated servers aimed at SMEs which are equipped with the latest generation of components.

As part of this new offering, the European web hosting giant has merged its Advance and Infrastructure product lines to maintain the best features while covering a wide range of use cases including web hosting, ecommerce, databases, CRM or ERP, containerization or virtualization, confidential computing and cloud storage.

OVHcloud has announced a new lineup of mid-range dedicated servers aimed at SMEs which are equipped with the latest generation of components.

As part of this new offering, the European web hosting giant has merged its Advance and Infrastructure product lines to maintain the best features while covering a wide range of use cases including web hosting, ecommerce, databases, CRM or ERP, containerization or virtualization, confidential computing and cloud storage.