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Equinix Metal vs HP Cloud Compute: What are the differences?
What is Equinix Metal? Global, automated, and interconnected bare metal on Platform Equinix. As part of Equinix — the world’s digital infrastructure company — we provide automated & interconnected infrastructure. Formerly Packet, now Equinix Metal™.
What is HP Cloud Compute? Deploy Scalable Virtual Servers on Demand. Now backed by an industry-leading Service Level Agreement, HP Cloud Compute delivers reliable computing resources to handle your production workloads. Configure and scale your capacity in an open cloud environment. With HP Cloud Compute, you gain control over your workloads while only paying for the resources you actually use.
Equinix Metal and HP Cloud Compute belong to "Cloud Hosting" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Equinix Metal are:
- Automated bare metal
- Native Equinix Fabric integration
- AMD, Arm and Intel Configs
On the other hand, HP Cloud Compute provides the following key features:
- Open. Avoid vendor lock-in by using open source-based architecture and standards-based APIs.
- Control. You have control of your instances and app development. Use root-level access to deploy applications, install required packages, and customize default security groups.
- Reliable. Performance and reliability are backed by HP’s Service Level Agreement with at least 99.95% monthly availability.
HashiCorp, Grafana, and DNSFilter are some of the popular companies that use Equinix Metal, whereas HP Cloud Compute is used by MiT Group, Facfox, and *. Equinix Metal has a broader approval, being mentioned in *11 company stacks & 21 developers stacks; compared to HP Cloud Compute, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 16 developer stacks.
Pros of Equinix Metal
- Great performance3
- No multi tenancy3
- Fantastic customer support2