Start a Proof of Concept
Before you make any decisions, ensure our solutions fit your needs.
- Guided Proof of Concept: Experience up to 30 days free on OpenMetal infrastructure with no obligations.
- Engineering Support: You aren’t testing in a vacuum. Receive technical guidance from our engineering team to ensure your PoC is architected the way you need from day one.
- Transparent Cost Analysis: We work with you to map your current usage to our fixed-cost model, giving you a clear savings forecast.
A Frictionless Transition
We bridge the gap between your current environment and your new cloud.
- Dedicated Migration Planning: We provide architectural guidance to map out your move, minimizing downtime and simplifying your transition.
- Flexible Ramp Periods: Don’t pay double while you move. We structure agreements with flexible ramp periods that scale up as your migration progresses, so your costs match your actual usage.
- Commercial Certainty: Secure your budget with agreements that lock in pricing for up to 5 years, shielding you from market volatility.
An Extension of Your Team
We don’t disappear once your deployment is live.
- Direct Engineer Access: Communicate directly with our engineers via your own private Slack channel.
- Collaborative Roadmap: We work hand-in-hand to plan your future hardware needs on your preferred timeline, and will even introduce additional tools and solutions customized to your requirements.
- Risk-Free Guarantee: We stand behind our services with a 30-day money-back guarantee once you become a customer.
It’s really awesome to work with someone who’s aligned culturally to the same type of mission that we are. And it’s really provided us with the ability to innovate and differentiate from the masses that are out there all using the same hyperscalers.
Tom Fanelli, CEO and Co-Founder at Convesio
FAQs
It depends on your path. PoC evaluations typically run 2-4 weeks within your 30-day window. Migration planning usually takes 1-2 weeks to scope, then execution timelines vary based on workload complexity. If you’re buying on demand, you can deploy and start working within hours or even minutes (dependent on hardware availability).
Yes. If you need more time during your PoC, just let us know. For migrations, ramp periods are customized to your timeline. We’d rather you make the right decision than a rushed one.
More than likely, yes! We have done this before for customers in many different situations. Of course, results will differ but they are based on if you are over the “tipping point” where private cloud beats out public cloud. There are three major factors to consider.
- Is your team highly technical? If so, running an OpenMetal hosted private cloud is not much different, skillset wise, to what is needed to maintain a health fleet of VMs, storage, and networking on public cloud. It can actually improve your operational time spent on troubleshooting and architecting as our team is much more available than any top engineers from major cloud providers.
- Public cloud is a good solution when clouds spends are below $10k/month or less. Hosted private cloud is a close cousin to public cloud – spin up on demand, transparent pricing – but scale is important to get the most value from private cloud. Talk to our team about your current spend and your goal. If you are below $10k/month we suggest reading our Public vs Private Cloud Cost Tipping Point article.
- Does your team spend a lot of time trying to maximize the costs of their public cloud resources? Or time spent making sure bills don’t accidentally balloon? Dedicated private clouds are fundamentally more efficient and have fixed costs. This time wasting by your staff will be greatly reduced or gone. They can then focus where they need to focus.
If one or more of the above are true, we have found that, particularly for deployments on public cloud costing over $20k/month, we will get you close to a 50% reduction. Also, if for any reason we are not a fit, you have a self service 30 day money back guarantee and the 30 days free PoC time. No obligations or lock-in.
- An Account Manager, Account Engineer, and an Executive Sponsor will be assigned from our side
- You will be invited to our Slack for Engineer to Engineer support
- Your Account Manager will collect your goals and we will align our efforts to your success
- You can meet with your support team via Google Meet (or the video system of your choice) up to weekly to help keep the process on schedule
- Migration planning if existing workloads are being brought over
- Discussion on agreements and potential discounts via ramps if moving workloads over time
We offer two levels of support to allow companies to choose what is best for them. A third, custom level is also available.
All clouds come with the first level of support included within the base prices:
- All hardware, including servers, switches/routers, power systems, cooling systems, and racks are handled by OpenMetal. This includes drive failures, power supply failures, chassis failures, etc. Though very rarely needed, assistance with recovery of any affected cloud services due to hardware failure is also included.
- Procurement, sales taxes, fit for use as a cloud cluster member, etc. are all handled by OpenMetal.
- Provisioning of the initial, known good cloud software made up of Ceph and OpenStack.
- Providing new, known good versions of our cloud software for optional upgrades. OpenMetal may, at its discretion, assist with upgrades free of charge, but upgrades are the responsibility of the customer.
- Support to customer’s operational/systems team for cloud health issues.
The second level of support is termed Assisted Management and has a base plus hardware unit fee. In addition to the first level of support, the following is offered with Assisted Management:
- Named Account Engineer.
- Engineer to Engineer support for cloud.
- Engineer to Engineer advice on key issues or initiatives your team has for workloads on your OpenMetal Cloud.
- Upgrades are handled jointly with OpenMetal assisting with cloud software upgrades.
- Assisting with “cloud health” issues, including that we jointly monitor key health indicators and our 24/7 team will react to issues prior to or with your team.
- Monthly proactive health check and recommendations.
In addition, OpenMetal publishes extensive documentation for our clouds and many System Administration teams prefer to have that level of control with their private cloud hosting.
Still Not Sure?
We understand these decisions require internal buy-in, technical validation, and budget approval. Our team has guided hundreds through this process to achieve 25-50% cost savings and complete infrastructure control. Schedule some time to discuss your requirements, timeline, and success criteria.