Bare-metal clouds offer a way for infrastructure and operations professionals to deploy workloads that demand dedicated hardware for performance and isolation reasons with all the operational advantages of VM-based infrastructure-as-a-service cloud services. This report discusses bare-metal clouds, how they differ from conventional IaaS offerings, and how I&O pros can benefit from them. Read this Forrester study to see whether this alternative platform may fit well as another option in your overall services ecosystem.