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Dedicated Bare Metal Cloud for agile, secure, and high-performance workloads.

Lightedge Bare Metal Cloud provides high-performing, dedicated bare metal servers, storage, and network completely customized for you.

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Deploy workloads with performance, flexibility, and trust at every layer.

Lightedge Bare Metal Cloud combines dedicated hardware, tailored configurations, and seamless integration options to support your most demanding workloads. Designed for flexibility and security, our platform ensures you get the performance you need with the control you expect.

Performance Meets Control

Lightedge Bare Metal Cloud delivers the power and reliability of dedicated hardware, ensuring that your workloads run at peak performance without interference from shared tenants. Whether you need to optimize for memory-heavy databases, AI/ML workloads, intensive I/O applications, or high-compute workloads, we offer configurations tailored to meet your demands. With real-time scalability and dedicated resources, you can handle the most complex workloads with ease.

Hybrid Cloud-Enabled

Our Bare Metal Cloud enables seamless integration with public and private cloud environments, allowing you to design the perfect hybrid solution for your business. Adapt to evolving requirements by scaling resources, integrating new tools, or enhancing your infrastructure—without the operational complexity.

Enterprise-Grade Security and Compliance

Compliance and security are at the heart of our Bare Metal Cloud. Dedicated hardware ensures your environment is purpose-built for meeting HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and other regulatory requirements. With encryption, network segmentation, and ISO-certified operations, you can trust that your data is secure, auditable, and always protected.

Future-Ready Design

Evolve your environment effortlessly with proven reference architecture—scale using high-density infrastructure for AI/ML or expand with new storage tiers, all without disruption.

The Lightedge difference.

Lightedge bare metal does more than give you the highest level of control, security, and compliance. It becomes the cornerstone to your hybrid cloud strategy, giving you new levels of flexibility as your business evolves.

High-performance hardware

Run workloads with low latency and high reliability on enterprise hardware designed for demanding environments. Each configuration is optimized for memory, compute, or I/O performance, ensuring efficiency wherever you deploy.

Best-in-class security and compliance services

We deliver enterprise-grade security with 24/7 SOC monitoring, managed detection and response (MDR), and proactive threat hunting. Our solutions meet the strictest standards, including HIPAA, HITRUST, and PCI DSS, to keep your cloud environments protected and compliant.

Hybrid-ready integration

Seamlessly integrate with private and public clouds to create a unified hybrid environment. Use familiar VMware tools to scale capacity, migrate workloads, and enhance operations without disruption.

Localized performance and reliability

Process data closer to end-users and devices to reduce latency, improve responsiveness, and minimize bandwidth usage. With built-in backup and disaster recovery, you ensure data availability even under challenging conditions.

Expert 24/7/365 managed services

Lightedge provides proactive monitoring, intuitive dashboards, and ITIL-aligned operations to ensure your infrastructure runs smoothly. Our team is always available to resolve issues and optimize performance.

CUSTOMER STORY / BARE METAL CLOUD

“Lightedge has always been able to build us exactly what we’re looking for and to provide custom solutions whenever needed. Two words I associate with Lightedge are adaptability and solutions.“

Ian Maurer

Chief Technology Officer, Allscripts

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Put the power of Lightedge Bare Metal Cloud to work for you.

Housed in ISO 20000-1 and 27001 compliant Tier III data centers, our Bare Metal Cloud meets rigorous standards for security and compliance.

Enterprise-grade servers, scalable memory, high-speed networking, and resilient storage are all monitored in real-time and supported by 24/7/365 proactive managed services experts, ensuring reliable performance tailored to your needs.

For AI/ML workloads

Leverage high-density compute and scalable memory for AI/ML workloads. Train, test, and deploy models with the raw performance needed for data-intensive workloads.

For hybrid cloud

Combine public and private cloud environments with dedicated bare metal resources, ensuring secure workload mobility and optimized data flows for seamless operations.

For regulated industries

Achieve HIPAA, HITRUST, PCI DSS, and other regulatory compliance with physically isolated infrastructure in ISO-certified data centers designed for your critical applications.

For high-performance computing

Run compute-heavy tasks like analytics and simulations on infrastructure built for speed and reliability. Benefit from high-speed networking and resilient storage tailored to demanding workloads.

Frequently Asked Questions

Bare metal cloud is dedicated physical server infrastructure provisioned and consumed as a service. You get an entire physical machine, no hypervisor layer you didn’t choose, no other tenants sharing the CPU, memory, or storage, but you rent it rather than buying it, and the provider handles the facility, hardware lifecycle, and network. It sits between colocation, where you own and maintain the hardware, and virtualized cloud, where you share physical resources with other workloads.

Lightedge Bare Metal Cloud is dedicated server, storage, and network infrastructure configured for your specific workload and operated from Lightedge data centers. The facilities are ISO 20000-1 and ISO 27001 certified Tier III, and the environment is supported 24/7/365 by Lightedge engineers running ITIL-aligned operations with proactive monitoring. Configurations are built around the workload, memory-heavy databases, AI/ML training, I/O-intensive applications, or high-compute analytics, rather than sold from a fixed catalogue of instance sizes.

Four situations make dedicated hardware worth the trade-off. Performance-sensitive workloads where hypervisor overhead or noisy neighbors cause measurable problems. High-transaction databases and latency-sensitive applications in particular. Software licensed per physical core, where dedicated hardware changes the licensing math. Compliance or contractual requirements that call for demonstrable physical isolation rather than logical separation. And workloads that need direct hardware access, such as GPU passthrough or specific storage controllers. If none of those apply, virtualized private cloud usually delivers similar outcomes with more operational flexibility.

With colocation you own the servers, handle procurement and refresh cycles, and Lightedge provides the facility, power, cooling, and connectivity. With bare metal cloud, Lightedge owns and maintains the hardware and you consume it as a service, no capital purchase, no three-to-five-year refresh planning, no shipping equipment or staffing remote hands. Both put your workload on dedicated physical hardware in the same ISO-certified facilities. The difference is who carries the hardware risk and the capital. Organizations often run both, keeping recently purchased equipment in colocation while new capacity goes to bare metal.

Yes, bare metal means you control the stack above the hardware. Many Lightedge customers run VMware on bare metal, which lets them use familiar tooling to scale capacity and migrate workloads while keeping the performance and licensing characteristics of dedicated hardware. This is also the usual path for organizations that want VMware without the constraints of a shared virtualized platform.

Physical isolation is the foundation, dedicated hardware means no shared CPU, memory, or storage with other tenants, which removes an entire class of shared-tenancy risk and simplifies the isolation argument in an audit. Infrastructure sits in ISO 20000-1 and ISO 27001 certified Tier III data centers, with encryption and network segmentation available, and 24/7 monitoring and incident response from Lightedge engineers. This supports customers subject to HIPAA, HITRUST, and PCI DSS with audit-ready documentation.

Scaling bare metal means adding physical capacity rather than adjusting a slider, so it works on a planning horizon rather than in real time. Lightedge uses proven reference architectures so additional nodes, storage tiers, or higher-density compute can be added to an existing environment without redesigning it.

Yes. Lightedge bare metal is designed to operate as part of a hybrid architecture rather than in isolation, with connectivity to private cloud environments and direct, low-latency connections from Lightedge data centers to AWS and Azure. In practice this means the workloads that need dedicated hardware, a core database, a licensing-constrained application, can sit on bare metal while everything around them runs wherever it fits best, with the data paths between them engineered rather than improvised.

Consider it when a specific workload is underperforming on virtualized infrastructure and you’ve ruled out configuration as the cause; when per-core software licensing makes dedicated hardware cheaper than virtualized capacity; when a compliance requirement calls for physical isolation; when a hardware refresh is due and you’d rather not repeat the capital cycle; or when you need direct hardware access that virtualization abstracts away. It is generally not the right choice for workloads with highly variable demand, or for general-purpose applications running fine on virtualized infrastructure, dedicated hardware costs more when it sits idle.

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