The Path to Your Cloud
Start your journey your way: get answers to your questions or jump into a hands-on pilot. We act as an extension of your team to handle the technical heavy lifting.
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
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about getting started with OpenMetal.
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. Results will differ based on whether you are over the “tipping point” where private cloud beats out public cloud. If your team is highly technical, running an OpenMetal hosted private cloud is not much different to maintaining a healthy fleet of VMs on public cloud. Public cloud is a good solution when cloud spend is below $10k/month. For deployments costing over $20k/month, we typically achieve close to a 50% reduction. You also have a self-service 30-day money-back guarantee and the 30-day 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 align our efforts to your success. You can meet with your support team via Google Meet (or your preferred video system) up to weekly to keep the process on schedule. We also assist with migration planning and discuss potential discounts via ramp agreements.
We work with customers across healthcare, finance, and other regulated industries. Our infrastructure supports various compliance frameworks, and our team helps architect solutions that meet your specific requirements. Discuss your needs during consultation.
We offer two levels of support. The first level (included in base pricing) covers all hardware management, procurement, provisioning of initial cloud software (Ceph and OpenStack), and support to your operational team for cloud health issues. The second level, Assisted Management, adds a named Account Engineer, Engineer-to-Engineer support, joint cloud software upgrades, proactive 24/7 cloud health monitoring, and monthly health checks with recommendations. A third custom level is also available.
If your team manages AWS, Azure, or GCP, they have the skills needed. Our infrastructure is ‘Day 2 ready’ and relatively easy to maintain. For first-time private cloud teams, we offer Assisted Management where our 24/7 team monitors cloud health and handles issues with you. Skilled Linux sysadmins can learn to maintain an OpenMetal cloud in about 40 hours using our guides, and we provide free test clouds for training.
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.