bare metal

bare metal

Computer hardware without an operating system. Right now, my new computer is bare metal, and I can't wait to build it and configure it just the way I want.
See also: bare, metal
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • metal
  • reboot
  • hard reboot
  • soft reboot
  • log off
  • boot up
  • bootstrap
  • log into
  • three-finger salute
  • a three-finger salute
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A10's high-speed 3rd Generation SSL processing with advanced cipher support has now been incorporated into the bare metal solution.
* Extensive coverage of the Bare Metal Stents (BMS) under development
The company's Jacksonville, FL location is currently available with bare metal solution capabilities.
In-stent reblockage occurs in 15-30 percent of patients who receive a bare metal stent.
Each system's output is adjustable and can detect even a pinhole exposure of bare metal in a film or coating.
K-Phos prosphate treatment offers protection for all bare metal surfaces.
"We have not yet identified any subsets of patients who don't benefit from receiving drug-eluting stents [by having less restenosis] compared with bare metal stents," said David J.
Stone's assessment last November, there are "pretty good grounds" for using a single drug-eluting stent to treat in-stent restenosis within a bare metal stent.
"Women did significantly better with the paclitaxel-eluting Taxus stent than with the bare metal stent; and in most respects they did seem to respond similarly to men," explained Dr.
Products include Arkeia Network Backup, Arkeia Server Backup, bare metal Disaster Recovery modules, NDMP support for NAS backup and hot backup plug-ins for Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, DB2, Lotus, Open-Xchange (including SLOX), LDAP, and MS Exchange and MS SQL Servers.
"The combination of our technologies simplifies large-scale blade server implementations, enables rapid bare metal recovery and easily consolidates, centralizes and protects corporate data."
* Bare metal system recovery -- In the event of system hardware or software failure, or user error, a disk-to-disk solution enables administrators to recover a system much faster than traditional methods.
As shown in preclinical studies, the proprietary CV Therapeutics biopolymer stent coating does not entomb the drug and is designed to control drug release rate more precisely and allows for the complete release of drug, leaving a bare metal stent in place.
If a repeat procedure is needed due to stent restenosis (which occurs more frequently with bare metal stents), it carries a small risk of a heart attack or even death, says Dr.