Advantages
BBC has no additional virtualized overhead. Compared with the virtual machine, it can maximize the usage of the computing, network and storage capabilities provided by the hardware. Compared with the traditional self-built IDC, BBC also features shorter delivery time, more flexible hardware configuration selection, lower delivery/operations cost and richer peripheral supporting services.
Ultra-high Computing Performanc
Multiple BBCs with high configuration are available. The strict technical selection and performance test can ensure the performance of BBCs. They are configured with the high-performance SSD and dual 10-Gigabit NICs, and provide the DCC configuration for the customer's special scenarios.
Security and Stability
The backbone network multi-line BGP access provides the network multi-link and isolation technology to ensure the security and stability of customer service access. Application of multiple redundancy design: Hardware RAID card, dual power supply, dual ENIs and BBC hardware level stability guarantee.
Light Assets
A large capital investment in purchasing physical devices at a time can be avoided. Baidu provides 7x24 professional operations service. In this way, we can quickly respond to and resolve various problems related to the hardware, system and network. Users do not need any in-situ systems and network engineers for data centers.
Full Control
You can remotely control BBC through the Baidu AI Cloud console, and quickly perform the operations of start, stop, and restart and reinstall system.
Multi-Region Deployment
At present, Baidu supports the North China – Beijing, South China – Suzhou, North China – Baoding, East China – Suzhou, Baoding Financial Cloud and Wuhan Finance Cloud regions, and each region is deployed with the availability zone A/B with the resource isolation. You can select the region to deploy BBC according to the geographical location of the customer base. See Instruction for Region Selection for details.
Comparative advantages with self-built IDC
| Advantages | Baidu Baremetal Compute (BBC) | Self-built IDC |
|---|---|---|
| Elastic Scale-up |
You can purchase a batch of BBCs through a simple operation on the console, and establish or scale up your business cluster quickly to deal with the business peak flexibly. | It is lack of scalability, and it takes a long period for the cluster scale-up. |
| Rapid Delivery | The BBC with standard configuration is delivered within 4hrs | It needs to go through a series of steps before the use, such as inventory, purchase, machine on-shelf and network/storage / business system configuration, which takes a long time. |
| Flexible Management and Control | BBC provides the Web console and API modes, and you can select one mode to operate BBC. | To manage and control BBC, you can only contact the field engineer or build a special operations system, which is not convenient. |
| Supporting Services BBC can use the network service (such as elastic public IP and VPC) and the BCM monitoring service, so that your server is more convenient to use. | You need to build the private and public network configuration and the monitoring mode. | |
| Cost Saving | BBC provides the prepaid purchase mode, and you can purchase BBC before the business peak and release BBC after the business peak, to maximize the capital usage rate. | A large amount of capital is invested for scale-up during the business peak, and this batch of BBCs becomes the redundant performance after the business peak, which is not cost effective. |
| Operations Service | Baidu AI Cloud provides a professional operations team and spare parts library in the data center. After it finds the failure of BBC or network device, the engineers assist you in troubleshooting as soon as possible. | You need to additionally purchase the maintenance guarantee provided by IDC or BBC manufacturers. |