InMotion Hosting’s OpenMetal Created A New Private Cloud Segment

Business News News March 17th 2022

OpenMetal is a division of InMotion Hosting (IMH). It has unveiled a disruptive new platform that transforms the risk and pain of private clouds by enabling IT teams, no matter the size or cloud expertise, anyone can deploy a private OpenStack cloud within 45 seconds. The private cloud as-a-service is focused on small teams as well as enterprise organizations.

The OpenMetal platform is created from InMotion Web Hosting’s Flex Metal Cloud solution, which would be a competition to the work of OpenStack’s conventional views of setup complexity, mass IT staff resources allocation, and operation, along with significant failure risks. The on-demand cloud service by OpenMetal Private Clouds has started with a three-server hyper-converged cloud core that is already warmed up and ready to go in under 45 seconds and is need to be paid hourly. This will allow to build and deploy OpenStack even for very tiny clouds, that can be easily scaled up and scaled down as per the demand.

Todd Robinson, President at OpenMetal said, when it comes to choosing the best cloud, then the private cloud has always been the gold standard choice. It provides greater control over security and cost but sometimes is complicated to set up. When this setup fails, it also weakens the open source community around OpenStack. Thus, to drive the greater use of open source systems, we released it is very important to simplify the setup process and ease the adoption of OpenStack. Now with OpenMetal any organization regardless of its size or skill can easily sign-up for on-demand private clouds with no risk or wait associated.

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The commitment of Open Source :

OpenMetal’s Open source commits to provide Silver Foundation Membership in the Open Infrastructure Foundation and serving as an Infrastructure Donor in order to help projects like Zuul, a Project Gating system. OpenMetal will continue to collaborate with the Open Infrastructure community so as to provide new features and capabilities.

The company is all set to work together to make private cloud deployment even easier, enhance the infrastructure flexibility, and guarantee it remains a cost-effective open-source alternative to the big public clouds.

Mark Collier, COO, OpenInfra Foundation, said the Open Infrastructure Foundation is on a mission to build the next decade of open infrastructure software, through a community of over 100,000 members who are skilled in building software like OpenStack that runs in the production. He further added OpenMetal has designed these on-demand private clouds to help companies that lack confidence in deploying cloud. Thus, we are excited to learn about their expertise and bring back that expertise to our community.

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