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It appears there's two camps in the audience. The camp I'm familiar with (and it appears the author as well) use bare-metal to mean running on your own computer
by JamesSwift 6y ago
It appears there's two camps in the audience. The camp I'm familiar with (and it appears the author as well) use bare-metal to mean running on your own computers (either in-house or colo) instead of in a VM on a cloud provider.
- 3np 6y agoI am yet to come across usage where the context doesn't make it unambiguous what it means. It can mean both things at the same time.
- JamesSwift 6y agoI agree, I'm just saying that both sides are understandably confused because its clear that both sides were unfamiliar with the other meaning.
- xaduha 6y agoJust call it physical or dedicated servers.
- LinuxBender 6y agoEveryone is right. Each group have their own background or silo or bubble or industry and each can use the word. Nobody can claim exclusive ownership unless they have a trademark. The one that still boggles my little mind is "Apple". How a company can own exclusive rights to that I will never understand, regardless of how many times a lawyer explains it to me.