OpenMetal’s 2024 Year in Review

A US-based primary with DR split between Amsterdam and Singapore gives you geographic redundancy, GDPR-compliant EU recovery, and APAC-resident infrastructure for customers across the region. This post covers the architecture, hardware options at each site, and what fixed-cost pricing means when you stop paying hyperscaler egress fees on every replication job.

Singapore has emerged as the primary APAC hub for serious AI infrastructure work. This post covers the power, bandwidth, and regulatory factors that matter for LLM training, alongside OpenMetal’s bare metal and private cloud options at Digital Realty’s SIN10 facility in Jurong East.

Most DR planning skips the business layer and jumps straight to configuration. This post covers how to set RPO/RTO targets by workload tier, what DR actually costs on hyperscalers versus OpenMetal’s fixed-cost model, and what SOC 2, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS auditors specifically ask to see.

Brexit moved the UK outside EU jurisdiction, which means UK companies serving EU customers are now non-EU entities under GDPR. This post explains the compliance gap, why Amsterdam infrastructure closes it, and how to get EU data residency without building EU operations.

Intel TDX has matured past the proof-of-concept stage, but “production-ready” means different things depending on your workload and team. This guide covers real performance overhead figures, operational complexity, hardware options on OpenMetal v4 and v5, and when to adopt vs. wait.

Migrating off public cloud isn’t the right move for every organization. This guide walks IT leaders through five factors that determine whether a cloud exit makes sense: workload profile, cost reality, team readiness, application architecture, and timeline expectations, including when to stay put.

Crypto and blockchain teams building in Europe are converging on Amsterdam: the Netherlands issues more MiCA licenses than any other EU country, and the infrastructure matches the regulatory advantage. This post covers why validator nodes, DeFi protocols, confidential computing, and rollup teams are choosing Amsterdam and what OpenMetal’s bare metal and private cloud offer in that market.

Most cloud repatriation projects fail, not because the idea is flawed, but because the execution misses predictable pitfalls. This post breaks down the five failure modes we see most often and what to do differently the second time.

Veeam Backup & Replication doesn’t support OpenStack virtual machines, and it’s not on their roadmap. This guide explains the technical reasons behind this gap, compares proven OpenStack backup alternatives, examines when bare metal with Veeam makes sense, and provides a framework for choosing the right backup solution for your private cloud infrastructure.

Secret Network proves encrypted smart contracts work. Intel TDX on bare metal completes the confidential computing stack from application layer to silicon.