Bare Metal Comeback in 2017
After working setting up some bare metal infrastructure thru IBM's Softlayer environment (now part of Bluemix), I realize that the pendulum may indeed be swinging back from the public cloud vendors to a more do it yourself approach of hosting on bare metal. The amount of VMs and capacity/performance you get when compared to offerings at AWS and other cloud providers when using your own cloud is quite substantial unless you are saddled with admin and maintenance costs of your
