Bare Metal Use Case – Big Data Servers
Big data continues to have a significant impact across various industries, with its influence only growing as more organizations leverage data analytics to drive decision-making and enhance business outcomes.
Big Data Infrastructure Challenges
When using cloud infrastructure for big data applications, users encounter several significant challenges:
Data Security and Privacy
Big data involves handling large volumes of sensitive information, making security and privacy a primary concern in the cloud. This includes managing encryption, controlling access, and adhering to regulatory and compliance requirements. If security practices are not enforced and continuously reviewed, cloud environments can be susceptible to breaches and unauthorized access.
Performance and Latency
The use of cloud infrastructure can introduce latency issues, particularly when processing large datasets or executing complex queries in real-time. Most big data applications require frequent data transfers between the cloud and local environments, and network bandwidth limitations can negatively impact the performance of these applications.
Vendor Lock-In
Migrating big data applications to certain cloud providers can cause vendor lock-in, making it difficult to switch providers or migrate data and applications back on-premises without incurring significant costs and operational disruptions. This challenge can limit an organization’s flexibility and innovation.
Cost Management
Cloud services offer scalability however managing the associated costs (especially on the public cloud) can be challenging. Most public cloud pricing models are dynamic, with costs potentially escalating due to increased data storage, processing power, and data transfer needs. In order to avoid budget overruns, careful monitoring and optimization is necessary.
OpenMetal’s Cloud Integrated or Standalone Bare Metal
With OpenMetal, you own your own private infrastructure, hosted in Tier III data centers.
Security and privacy are inherently built into the platform.
A fixed pricing model for the infrastructure, competitive data egress pricing, and discounts on long term agreements ensure that you get the most ROI out of your Big Data infrastructure spend.
- Share the same VLANs giving you the best private network performance possible.
- Run small workloads in the Cloud, including controlling your bare metal servers.
- Your bare metal can use services like Block and Object Storage supplied by your Cloud.
- Add bare metal resources to Virtual Private Clouds inside your hosted private cloud.
OpenMetal’s team has worked closer with us than any other infrastructure provider we have ever had. Their technology is great, but their superpower is a culture of aligning their team with our goals.
Chris Ueland, Co-Founder & CEO
@ Hunt Intelligence
OpenMetal Hardware for Big Data Applications
This is some of the enterprise bare metal hardware that can support big data use cases. Reach out to our sales team if you have a specific hardware requirement that you don’t see in our bare metal catalog.
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