Category: Bare Metal and Dedicated Servers

Blockchain infrastructure demands storage that scales with validator nodes, terabytes of historical data, and unpredictable state growth. Ceph distributed storage offers a unified solution that handles these challenges while eliminating the unpredictable costs and performance bottlenecks of traditional cloud storage.

Bare metal confidential computing eliminates virtualization overhead, resource constraints, and unpredictable costs. OpenMetal’s dedicated TDX servers deliver consistent performance for sensitive AI, blockchain, and financial workloads where security can’t be compromised.

Discover why dual smaller NVMe drives outperform single larger drives for enterprise databases on bare metal infrastructure. Learn about workload separation, parallel I/O, and endurance benefits with Micron 7500 MAX SSDs on OpenMetal’s XLv4 and XXLv4 servers for mission-critical applications.

Learn how to deploy and optimize Apache Spark and Hadoop clusters on OpenMetal’s bare metal infrastructure. This comprehensive guide covers deployment strategies, storage architecture, system tuning, and real-world optimization techniques for maximum performance and cost efficiency.

Private equity operating partners are missing a major value creation opportunity by not tracking infrastructure optimization as a KPI. Cloud costs often represent 50% of software companies’ revenue, directly impacting EBITDA and valuations. This guide shows how to make infrastructure efficiency measurable and systematically improve portfolio company margins through predictable, optimized infrastructure strategies.

Discover how OpenMetal’s on-demand private cloud with integrated Ceph storage eliminates AI infrastructure bottlenecks. Real customer case study shows 50% cost reduction and seamless scaling from 0.5PB to 1.9PB capacity. Get enterprise-grade performance with predictable pricing.

Learn how OpenMetal’s dedicated VLAN and VXLAN-ready private cloud architecture provides secure multi-tenant environments with true Layer 2 isolation, unlimited scalability, and unmetered 20 Gbps private networking for compliance-ready deployments.

Infrastructure inconsistency silently undermines SaaS scalability, creating performance unpredictability, security gaps, and operational complexity. This comprehensive guide shows technical leaders how to achieve consistency without sacrificing agility through dedicated private cloud infrastructure, standardized deployment patterns, and systematic implementation strategies that prevent configuration drift while supporting rapid growth.

Privacy-first blockchain applications need infrastructure that supports confidential computing, network isolation, and regulatory compliance. Discover how bare metal and private cloud solutions provide the foundation for zero-knowledge proofs, confidential smart contracts, and secure multi-party computation.

Learn how to architect a complete predictive analytics pipeline using OpenMetal’s dedicated infrastructure. This technical guide covers Ceph storage, GPU training clusters, and OpenStack serving – delivering superior performance and cost predictability compared to public cloud alternatives.

Hidden cloud costs are silently destroying SaaS profit margins. PE firms lose billions in portfolio value due to unpredictable usage fees, resource waste, and egress charges. Learn how private cloud infrastructure delivers 30-50% cost savings and predictable EBITDA improvement.

Learn how OpenMetal’s private networking architecture delivers 20 Gbps per server, free internal traffic, customer-specific VLANs with VXLAN support, and predictable egress billing. Perfect for AI training clusters, database replication, and high-throughput workloads requiring performance without bandwidth constraints.

Public cloud confidential computing promises security but retains provider control over critical trust components. Private cloud infrastructure eliminates third-party trust dependencies, providing genuine confidentiality for sensitive workloads through dedicated hardware and transparent attestation.

Explore how confidential computing transforms blockchain security by protecting oracle data feeds and smart contract execution. This guide covers implementation strategies, performance optimization, and deployment best practices for building secure decentralized applications on OpenMetal’s bare metal infrastructure.

Discover five blockchain workloads that demand dedicated infrastructure over shared public cloud. From validator nodes to MEV systems, learn why bare metal servers and private cloud provide the performance, security, and control these critical operations require.

Learn how confidential computing infrastructure protects PHI, AI models, and proprietary algorithms during processing. Discover implementation strategies for HIPAA-compliant AI workloads on OpenMetal’s secure bare metal platform, including real-world healthcare use cases and deployment guides.

Retail brands face a dilemma: AI image generation tools offer unprecedented speed, but public APIs expose intellectual property, violate compliance, and create unpredictable costs. Private AI infrastructure solves these challenges while delivering superior ROI.

Regulated financial institutions need blockchain infrastructure that balances innovation with compliance. Discover why bare metal servers deliver the control, performance, and security that enterprise blockchain demands—from validator nodes to tokenization platforms. No compromise required.

MPC lets multiple parties compute together without sharing private data — but infrastructure matters. Learn how confidential computing on OpenMetal bare metal servers with Intel TDX helps secure MPC deployments for blockchain, fintech, and privacy-first apps.

Modular blockchain networks like Celestia, Cosmos, and Polygon CDK are redefining infrastructure needs. This post outlines why bare metal servers and private clouds offer the control, performance, and predictability that modular blockchains require.

Are you a data architect or developer frustrated by slow and unreliable data pipelines? This article provides a high-performance blueprint using Apache Spark, Delta Lake, and Ceph on OpenMetal’s bare metal cloud. Escape the “hypervisor tax” and build scalable, cost-effective ETL systems with direct hardware control for predictable performance.

Learn how media companies can deploy OpenAI Whisper on a private GPU cloud for large-scale, real-time transcription, automated multilingual subtitling, and searchable archives. Ensure full data sovereignty, predictable costs, and enterprise-grade security for all your content workflows.

Discover how IT teams can deploy BioGPT on OpenMetal’s dedicated NVIDIA GPU servers within a private cloud powered by OpenStack. Learn strategic best practices for compliance-ready setups (HIPAA, GDPR), high-performance inference, cost transparency, and in-house model fine-tuning for biomedical research.

Explore how MicroVMs deliver fast, secure, and resource-efficient horizontal scaling for modern workloads like serverless platforms, high-concurrency APIs, and AI inference. Discover how OpenMetal’s high-performance private cloud and bare metal infrastructure supports scalable MicroVM deployments.

Learn how to enable Intel SGX and TDX on OpenMetal’s Medium, Large, XL, and XXL v4 servers. This guide covers required memory configurations (8 DIMMs per CPU and 1TB RAM), hardware prerequisites, and a detailed cost comparison for provisioning SGX/TDX-ready infrastructure.

Discover how OpenMetal delivers performance and flexibility through tiered cloud storage options. Learn the pros and use cases of direct-attached NVMe, Ceph-based high availability block storage, and scalable, low-cost erasure-coded object storage—all integrated into OpenStack.

Discover the power of the OpenMetal Large v4 Storage Server with dual Intel Xeon Silver 4510 CPUs, 720TB HDD storage, 76.8TB NVMe flash, and 512GB DDR5 RAM. Perfect for building high-performance, scalable, and resilient storage clusters for cloud, AI/ML, and enterprise data lakes.

With the new OpenMetal Private AI Labs program, you can access private GPU servers and clusters tailored for your AI projects. By joining, you’ll receive up to $50,000 in usage credits to test, build, and scale your AI workloads.

As blockchain technology moves beyond cryptocurrency, more companies are running blockchain workloads on bare metal to meet growing demands for speed, security, and control. This post explores how it works, why it matters, and where it’s already being used in real-world industries.

Discover how machine learning and data analytics teams could accelerate training, inference, and data pipelines using OpenMetal’s infrastructure. This example setup combines a Large v3 Cloud Core with high-capacity Storage v3 servers, NVMe speed, and 95th percentile egress pricing.

The OpenMetal Large v1 Storage Server features dual Intel® Xeon® Silver 4210R CPUs, 12x 12TB HDDs, and 4x 1.92TB NVMe SSDs—ideal for scalable, high-capacity storage and Ceph-based clusters.

Discover the OpenMetal Large v3 Storage Server, featuring 12x18TB HDDs, customizable NVMe flash options up to 15.36TB per drive, and the Intel Xeon Silver 4314 processor. Ideal for Ceph-based clusters, it delivers scalable performance, hot-swappable flexibility, and enterprise-grade storage.

At OpenMetal, every bare metal server is deployed with dual high-speed 10Gbps uplinks, providing a critical layer of both performance scalability and fault tolerance. To fully leverage these redundant connections, OpenMetal configures these uplinks as a bonded logical interface using Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP).

At OpenMetal, we design our bare metal servers for high availability, ensuring resilience across private clouds and storage clusters. To protect the operating system from hardware failures, many servers feature dual boot drives in RAID 1, providing redundancy and seamless recovery.

Ensure uninterrupted service for your critical applications with our comprehensive guide to high-availability infrastructure solutions. Discover the importance of redundancy, failover, and fault tolerance, and explore popular technologies like OpenStack, bare metal servers, and Ceph storage clusters. Learn how to build resilient systems that can withstand failures and minimize downtime.

Ready to get started with OpenStack? Read this guide to gain valuable insights on the best hardware for your OpenStack deployment. On-Demand private clouds powered by OpenStack is OpenMetal’s flagship product, so as you may guess we know a few things about building clouds built on OpenStack, including how to automate clouds built on OpenStack for deployment in under 1 minute. In this blog we share some hardware recommendations with you, to ensure that your OpenStack journey is successful.

With more focus on big data and the need to translate many data sources to other data consumers, Apache Kafka has emerged as the leading tool for efficiently and reliably handling this. In addition to configurations, maximizing Kafka’s capabilities is tied directly to the infrastructure you select.

What Is ClickHouse?

Updated on August 11, 2025 by Avani Rampersad

ClickHouse is an open source columnar database management system created by Yandex in 2016. ClickHouse was designed to provide users with a rapid and efficient system for processing large-scale analytical queries on enormous  volumes of data. Today, organizations use ClickHouse for data warehousing, business intelligence, and analytical processing.

In the landscape of big data analytics, Apache Spark has emerged as a powerful tool for in memory big data processing. The foundation for maximizing Spark’s capabilities lies in the infrastructure. OpenMetal’s XL V2.1 servers offer a solution that marries high performance with cost-effectiveness for Spark clusters.

The adoption of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is on the rise as businesses seek to harness the scalability, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness of cloud computing. While virtualization has been a central component of IaaS, the integration of bare metal servers introduces a new dimension to infrastructure management.

Ironic, a vital part of OpenStack, focuses on provisioning and managing bare metal servers. It seamlessly integrates with Keystone, Nova, Neutron, Glance, and Swift to provide a unified interface for managing hardware resources within a cloud environment. With Ironic, operators can treat physical servers like virtual machines, streamlining the management of resources in an OpenStack cloud. It simplifies bare metal management through a unified interface, seamless integration with OpenStack services, and automated provisioning.