Where We Started
Our founding challenge was making a highly complex open source system practical to run on-demand: taking OpenStack, joining it with Ceph, hyper-converging the two, and delivering it as-a-service.
We hit that goal in late 2020. Through 2021, we split efforts between improving deployment speed, expanding cloud functionality, and adding hardware options as clients requested them.
Cloud capability releases added Kubernetes and direct NVMe access through LVM. Hardware releases added A100 GPUs and 20PB+ storage cluster options. Then, a series of deployment system releases in late 2021 and January 2022 got the time between a customer requesting a 3-server private cloud and delivery down to under a minute. See it for yourself!
That work is still the foundation everything else is built on.
Where We Are Now
OpenMetal exists to give companies of any size the power and flexibility of private cloud and dedicated bare metal, without the cost structure or lock-in of the hyperscalers.
For most of the last decade, that kind of infrastructure control was reserved for companies with the engineering headcount to build and run it themselves. Everyone else defaulted to AWS, Azure, or GCP and absorbed whatever pricing and constraints came with it. We think that’s a false choice.
Our Mission: Make enterprise-grade private cloud and bare metal infrastructure accessible to companies of any size, not just those who can afford to build it themselves.
Open source is core to how we deliver on that. Our team has spent 25+ years using and contributing to projects like OpenStack and Ceph, and we build on them because they let us pass real cost and flexibility advantages to customers instead of paying a tax to a proprietary stack.
OpenStack, Ceph, and systems like them are powerful, but genuinely hard to deploy and operate well. That difficulty has historically kept them in the hands of large organizations with dedicated platform teams, or specialist providers who don’t pass the savings on.
We closed that gap.
Want to know more? Find out more about us or meet the team members who power OpenMetal.
Our Principles
Open source is a fundamental good.
It creates collaboration across the globe, opens doors for people who want to change their future, and lets successes build on other successes for a collective good. That belief is why we’ve built our private cloud on OpenStack and Ceph instead of proprietary alternatives.
Pricing should be transparent, fair, and inclusive.
No hidden fees, no penalizing customers for how they use their infrastructure. You should be able to look at a price and trust it’s the price.
We work as a partner, not just a hardware vendor.
Our team gets into the details of what you’re actually trying to build, not just what servers you’re ordering, so the solution fits and grows with your business.
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