Applications with complex security or regulatory requirements

The combination of a global data center footprint with physical resource separation has helped many organizations adopt the cloud while simultaneously meeting complex security and regulatory demands.

Performance-centric applications and data workloads

The complete access and control over hardware resources make bare metal a good match for workloads, such as high-performance computing, big data, high-performance databases, gaming and finance workloads.

Large, steady-state workloads

For applications such as enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management or supply chain management that have a relatively stable set of ongoing resource demands, bare metal can also be a good fit.