Elastic provisioning bare metal servers on a software-defined private cloud with up to 200 Gbps of dynamic network bandwidth.

Deploy from a software-defined, private cloud known as the IBM Cloud VPC (virtual private cloud). Go live across multizone regions in 10 minutes or less and expand capacity of modern apps with elastic provisioning and deprovisioning. Launch SAP and VMware solutions fast with preset profiles in a variety of sizes to match your core-to-memory ratio demands, all featuring 2nd and 4th Gen Intel Xeon processors with dynamic network bandwidth from 10 to 200 Gbps. Pay as you go with on-demand pricing, or reserve capacity in advance with 1-and-3-year term contracts for reduced rates up to 55% off.

Features 

• Network - **SmartNIC technology: **Get 4x faster network throughput up to 100 Gbps. - **Network orchestration: **An isolated, network orchestration layer eliminates the pod boundary.
• **Seamless connectivity: **Establish internal or external private network connections.
• Compute
• **Compute profiles: **Ideal for CPU-intensive demands with moderate-to-high web traffic, such as production batch processing and front-end web servers.
• **Balanced profiles: **Ideal for midsize databases and common cloud applications with moderate traffic.
• **Memory profiles: **Ideal for RAM-intensive demands, such as large memory caching, in-memory analytics workloads and intensive database applications.
• **Very high memory profiles: **Ideal for running small to medium in-memory databases and OLAP workloads, such as SAP BW/4 HANA.
• Storage - **All secondary NVMe storage: **Add a secondary, local NVMe drive (JBOD 3.2TB NVMe u.2). - **File storage: **Specify an IOP tier to help avoid bottlenecks.
• **Boot storage: **Implement local disk boot storage on redundant solid-state drives (SSDs).
• Security - **Inherent protection: **Employ highly available private virtual networks with security-rich capabilities integrated into the compute, storage and subnet levels. - **Security groups: **Control traffic for one or more bare metal servers with a collection of rules that act as your own virtual firewall. - **Encryption: **Attach a floating IP so nothing in the connection path forces a decryption to your bare metal server.

Benefits

Build a secure space in the public cloud. Accelerate high-production workloads with faster networking performance and deploy globally across multizone regions

• **Hyperscale provisioning: **Deploy bare metal servers to multizone regions and use floating IPs.
• **Best-in-class networking performance: **Get up to 200 Gbps of dynamic network bandwidth.
• **Developer-friendly: **Use the REST-based API that’s aligned to industry norms, with easy integration into existing tooling.
• **Logically isolated: **Extend your IP addresses to dedicated PCI and VLAN interface. Keep granular control over which applications can access your resources.
• **Security rich environment: **Effectively maintain your regulated environment with support for KYOK, BYOK and the highest level of FIPS certification.
• **Cost-effective high availability: **Strengthen fault tolerance and help keep key specific workloads from being under-utilized or over-utilized.