Hivelocity Blog

Key takeaways Embedded finance platforms can promise end-customers SLAs they can’t credibly meet by reselling on-demand hyperscale cloud resources. Building data centers is too expensive for most startups.   White-label bare metal is an ideal option for fintechs and banking-as-a-service (BaaS) providers: dedicated hardware to support their platform that’s ultimately invisible to the end customer.  Fintechs often pay a premium for hyperscale elasticity that most of their workloads don’t need. This consumes their margins.  Customer …

Key takeaways To protect sensitive data, healthcare security leaders require a clear view of ownership for every element of their IT infrastructure.   When relying on one or more hyperscale cloud providers, ownership can be murky, creating gaps that leave data exposed.      Using dedicated infrastructure for key workloads can provide a clearer view of ownership and help organizations better protect …

Key takeaways Community banks and credit unions often lack the infrastructure they need to turn transactional data into actionable insights. For analytics, bare metal infrastructure provides better performance, more predictable costs, and tighter control of data than shared cloud environments.   Teams can easily build an analytics dashboard on top of bare …

Key takeaways Organizations continuously search for ways to maximize the value of expensive commercial real estate.  Server rooms should be included in office space ROI assessments.  Colocation services enable organizations to reclaim the valuable space consumed by server rooms while retaining control of hardware.  Commercial real estate is often one of the largest recurring operating expenses for organizations. To squeeze every …

Key takeaways Shifting steady-state workloads that don’t require elastic burst capabilities to single-tenant bare metal helps SaaS teams right-size their investments and optimize costs.  Hivelocity provides infrastructure-as-code (IaC) capabilities and API-based provisioning so that teams can keep the same processes and workflows they’re used to in the cloud.  Among SaaS companies, hybrid infrastructure has a reputation for being complicated to operate. The assumption …

Key takeaways Load times in EHR systems or medical imaging archives create significant friction in patient, provider, and staff experiences.  Cloud multi-tenancy is a common cause of delays in the clinical data tier; shared resources can introduce resource competition that impacts latency-sensitive workloads.  Hivelocity offers single-tenant, bare-metal infrastructure as a service (IaaS) for steady-state healthcare workloads, including EHR systems and …

Key takeways The price of new hardware is only one part of the total cost of a technology refreshes. Organizations should consider facility upgrade expenses and opportunity costs of missed investments.  Choosing colocation services enables organizations to capitalize on next-generation hardware while avoiding the high costs of facility upgrades.   When it’s time to refresh infrastructure, executive teams often focus primarily on the hardware. They …

Key takeaway Answering “Where does the cardholder data live?” shouldn’t require a diagnostic action. Fintechs need to answer this cleanly to avoid overrunning their budget.  A vendor’s PCI Attestation of Compliance (AoC) only covers PCI DSS Requirement 9; the others are the customer organization’s responsibility.  Scope reduction is the simplest way to lower compliance costs. Fintechs that reduce the CDE through tokenization …

Key takeaways IT infrastructure strategy is no longer as simple as adding hardware and expanding server rooms.   C-suite leaders should work together to build an infrastructure strategy that balances technology and business goals with financial constraints.   Colocation services enable organizations to retain control of hardware while avoiding facility expansion and operation costs.  An organization’s IT infrastructure strategy today can affect nearly …

Key takeaways In the public cloud, egress increases whenever a streaming platform adds subscribers, uses higher bitrates, or achieves longer watch times. This results in rapidly rising costs.  The Hivelocity Streaming Bundle helps platforms shift predictable egress-heavy workloads onto bare-metal infrastructure to unlock significant cost advantages.  Hivelocity infrastructure is not a replacement for your CDN, video platform, or cloud-based GPU transcoding; it’s a dedicated, cost-optimized …