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Low-cost,
self-managed infrastructure
USE CASE
Our zero touch and full stack capabilities make operating your own infrastructure as easy as using the cloud, but more affordable.
Success stories
Discover how an AdTech company reduced therir costs by moving to on-premises.
Read the case study
Discover how HEY was moved
to on-premises to save millions.
Read the 3rd party case study
Why now? What changed?
This new generation of automation solutions greatly reduce the overhead of managing your own hardware by being largely self-service.
Second generation of
automation solutions
1
New financing methods
available
Many vendors, including Dell and HP, now offer hardware-as-a-service consumption models reduce overhead and risk, if needed.
2
How to think about cloud vs
on-premises costs
You have diverse network architectures, implementations, and vendors, all while adapting to complex needs with an intent-based approach. We do that!
$50,911
TCO of owning a server over 5 years including networking, financing, staff
$127,151
TCO of renting an equivalent cloud server* over 5 years, including staff
* using m5.24xlarge instance as reference
Hands-free, easy
to use
Improved reliability
MetalSoft CloudPlex eliminates the chances of misconfiguration due to hand-overs between teams or systems and human errors.
Improved security
All tenant infrastructures are isolated from each other by default and security standards are enforced automatically.
Improved time-to-value
Speed up service delivery by 20x or more by simultaneously orchestrating all aspects of data center infrastructure deployment.
The MetalSoft platform coordinates thousands of operations across off-the-shelf servers, switches and storage turning them into a true cloud.
Easy operation
MetalSoft provides an easy to use interface to build your desired network topology, deploy operating systems safely and reliably, without needing much knowledge of the underlying systems.
Self service user interface
No initial equipment configuration needed. MetalSoft automatically discovers equipment and performs the initial network and server equipment configuration.
Automatic standup of equipment
No data center? No problem.
You don’t need to own your own DC. Colocation facilities offer a rack with power, cooling, and internet. These facilities are key to reducing your cloud costs if you don’t have a data center facility of your own.
$800-$1600/mth
Average price per 'rack' including power and cooling that can hold 40 1U servers or switches
$20-40/mth
Average price per server including power and cooling
No special skills needed
With MetalSoft, the user experience is similar to that of the public cloud. Very little interaction is needed from an operational perspective. After the rack and stack and cabling, everything can be performed in a zero-touch fashion.
Automated OS deployments & configuration
Automated network deployments
Automated Kubernetes deployments
Automated storage deployments
Automated border device management
Automated VMware deployments
What do I need?
Servers
Rule of thumb: Servers cost 4-7x monthly cloud instance fees.
Bigger instances offer better value. Check with your favorite vendors for exact prices and discounts. Use our reference architecture for guidance.
Switches
Switches usually cost around $12-$15k per switch and you need two per rack in general. There are some extra switches needed if you have more than one rack.
MetalSoft
Our BMaaS orchestrator solution turns your hardware into cloud. You can purchase MetalSoft directly or through a hardware vendor or other partners.
Choose a provider that has facilities closer to the geographies you intent to serve, contract the miniumum number of racks (of half raks) possible even if you think you’ll scale later.
Colocation or your own DC
Take the next step
Get in touch with us to request a demo or to talk to our technical sales team.
70%
of data center outages can be attributed to human error¹.
71%
of organizations will implement infrastructure automation by 2025².
77%
of respondents cite talent shortages as a top barrier to digital transformation³.
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