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Are you getting pressure to streamline workloads to maximize profit? Over- and under-provisioned resources can cause unnecessary expenses. Complex cloud environments can make it difficult to build the infrastructure required to make your business run smoothly. IBM Bluemix infrastructure offers powerful and robust hardware to meet any requirement and budget.
Bare Metal Servers
Select an hourly bare metal server configuration with our most-ordered options, and we’ll deploy it in 20-30 minutes. Or fully customize a monthly bare metal server, and we’ll deploy it in 2-4 hours. Monthly bare metal servers also include 500GB of outbound public bandwidth at no additional cost.
Virtual Servers
Simply select the cores, storage, and RAM you need, and our automated provisioning system will deploy your virtual server within 5 to 15 minutes. Virtual servers ordered with monthly billing also include 250GB of outbound public bandwidth at no additional cost.
Optimize and expand your business with our servers
With virtual cloud servers (but rarely with bare metal), it’s all on demand and billed on monthly or hourly terms. No long-term commitments. Complete infrastructure control.
| Bare Metal Servers | Virtual Servers | |
| Tenancy | Single | Single & Multi |
| Billing | Hourly & Monthly | Hourly & Monthly |
| Configuration options | All hardware resources | Core count, RAM, and storage |
| Computing power | From single processor 4-core architectures to quad-processor 12-core architectures | Up to 56 cores per virtual server (with minimum 2.0+ GHz/core) |
| Local storage range | Up to 36 Drives per server SSD: 800GB to 1.2TB | 25GB to 400GB Provisioned on SSD in select data centers. |
| RAM | Up to 3TB | Up to 242GB |
| Public Network Outbound Bandwidth |
500GB FREE with monthly billing Competitive pricing in all locations | 250GB FREE with monthly billing Competitive pricing in all locations |
| Public Network Inbound Bandwidth |
Free | Free |
| Private Network All Bandwidth |
Free | Free |
| Management Network All Bandwidth |
Free | Free |
| Chat and phone support | 24x7 | 24x7 |
| Available operating systems | CentOS CloudLinux Debian GNU/Linux FreeBSD Ubuntu Linux Microsoft Windows Server CitrixXenserver Red Hat Enterprise Linux VMware ESXi Vyatta Parallels |
CentOS CoreOS CloudLinux Debian GNU/Linux Ubuntu Linux Microsoft Windows Server Red Hat Enterprise Linux Vyatta |
| Ideal workloads | Data-intensive workloads that prioritize performance and reliability | Highly variable workloads that prioritize flexibility and scalability |
| High performance computing options |
Monthly and Hourly GPUs Monthly POWER8 | |
Bare Metal Servers
Tenancy: Single
Billing: Hourly & Monthly
Configuration options: All hardware resources
Computing power: From single processor 4-core architectures to quad-processor 12-core architectures
Local storage range: Up to 36 Drives per server SSD: 800GB to 1.2TB
RAM: Up to 3TB
Public Network Outbound Bandwidth: 500GB FREE with monthly billing Competitive pricing in all locations
Public Network Inbound Bandwidth: Free
Private Network All Bandwidth: Free
Management Network All Bandwidth: Free
Chat and phone support: 24x7
Available operating systems: CentOS
CloudLinux
Debian GNU/Linux FreeBSD
Ubuntu Linux
Microsoft Windows Server CitrixXenserver
Red Hat Enterprise Linux VMware ESXi
Vyatta
Parallels
Ideal workloads: Data-intensive workloads that prioritize performance and reliability
High performance computing options: Monthly and Hourly GPUs Monthly POWER8
Virtual Servers
Tenancy: Single & Multi
Billing: Hourly & Monthly
Configuration options: Core count, RAM, and storage
Computing power: Up to 56 cores per virtual server (with minimum 2.0+ GHz/core)
Local storage range: 25GB to 400GB Provisioned on SSD in select data centers.
RAM: Up to 242GB
Public Network Outbound Bandwidth: 250GB FREE with monthly billing Competitive pricing in all locations
Public Network Inbound Bandwidth: Free
Private Network All Bandwidth: Free
Management Network All Bandwidth: Free
Chat and phone support: 24x7
Available operating systems: CentOS
CoreOS
CloudLinux
Debian GNU/Linux Ubuntu Linux
Microsoft Windows Server Red Hat Enterprise Linux Vyatta
Ideal workloads: Highly variable workloads that prioritize flexibility and scalability
High performance computing options:
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