Can data center operations become an outsourced function, allowing data center owners to focus on managing apps instead of infrastructure? That is what Dell suggests with its bare metal as a service pitch, illustrating the growing range of “as a service” computing functions an enterprise can purchase.
Besides the existing infrastructure as a service, platform as a service, software as a service and bare metal as a service, suppliers now speak of function as a Service (FaaS) and database as a service.
Using FaaS, users manage only functions and data. The cloud service provider manages the applications. This option is especially popular among developers, Intel argues, since customers do not pay for services when your code isn’t running.
Common functions include data processing, data validation or sorting, and back ends for mobile and IoT applications. FaaS providers include AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions.
Database as a Service (DBaaS), such as Microsoft Azure SQL Database, is useful for hybrid cloud, since applications can be moved between on-premise and cloud infrastructure without disrupting user experience.
Bare Metal as a Service provides a way for enterprises to complement virtualized cloud services with a dedicated server environment with the same agility, scalability, and efficiency as the cloud.
It also is useful to enterprises for short-term, data-intensive processing such as media encoding or render farms. Shifting such activities to an owned bare metal solution also avoids payment to cloud computing suppliers for those workloads.
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