OpenMetal Positions Bare Metal Infrastructure at the Center of Enterprise Computing’s Next Era

Surging demand for dedicated infra, hardware-level security, and predictable costs is driving a fundamental shift in how enterprises choose cloud environments

“Enterprises are no longer willing to trade performance and control for convenience. Bare metal puts the infrastructure decisions back where they belong, with the teams who understand the workloads.” — Jamie Tischart, CTO | OpenMetal

OpenMetal (openmetal.io), a leading provider of enterprise bare metal and hosted private cloud infrastructure, today underscored its continued focus on expanding its capabilities to meet surging enterprise demand for dedicated, high-performance computing, especially at a time when organizations are actively seeking alternatives to public hyperscaler dependency and options to proprietary platforms.

Bare metal infrastructure is no longer a niche consideration. From confidential computing and blockchain networks to large-scale CI/CD pipelines and petabyte-class data environments, enterprises are discovering that shared, virtualized cloud resources introduce unacceptable performance ceilings, unpredictable egress costs, and insufficient hardware control. The calculus has shifted. Organizations that once accepted these trade-offs in exchange for hyperscaler convenience are now prioritizing infrastructure that gives them full ownership of performance, security, and cost outcomes.

Enterprise Hardware Built for Demanding Workloads

OpenMetal’s v4 server fleet is purpose-built for the workloads that shared cloud environments struggle to serve reliably. The Large v4 is powered by dual 5th Gen Intel Xeon Gold processors with support for PCIe 5.0 and is paired with high-density Micron NVMe storage designed for sustained throughput and enterprise-grade endurance. For organizations requiring maximum memory capacity, the XXL v4 scales to 2TB of DDR5 RAM, making it well-suited for in-memory databases, large-scale virtualization, and memory-bound HPC workloads.

Select hardware configurations support Intel TDX and SGX, enabling hardware-enforced confidential computing that isolates sensitive workloads at the CPU level. There are no hypervisor licensing fees, no cloud attestation charges, and no per-VM confidential computing surcharges. For regulated industries, financial services firms, and any organization processing sensitive data under compliance mandates, this represents a meaningful and auditable security guarantee.

New hardware generations are already in development, with additional server releases expected to push performance, memory bandwidth, and storage density further.

Security and Control by Design

Every OpenMetal environment runs on dedicated bare metal hardware with no shared tenancy, no adjacent workload risk, and no hypervisor layer outside the customer’s control. Each deployment operates on customer-specific VLANs with up to 10Gbps DDoS protection included, and IPMI access gives teams full remote control over their hardware as if they were physically on-site.

OpenMetal’s private cloud is not layered on top of shared virtualized infrastructure. It is architected and delivered entirely on dedicated bare metal, ensuring customers receive the full performance and security of the underlying hardware from day one. This physical isolation forms a security posture that software-defined boundaries simply cannot replicate, making OpenMetal a natural fit for organizations operating under strict regulatory frameworks. When auditability and provable isolation are requirements rather than preferences, dedicated bare metal is the foundation that holds.

Transparent Egress. No Surprises.

Bandwidth costs have become one of the defining pain points of hyperscaler dependency. OpenMetal recently increased public bandwidth across its entire hardware lineup, with servers now providing 4-10Gbps of included bandwidth per unit.

Unlike hyperscalers, which charge per-gigabyte for outbound data, OpenMetal includes a generous egress allotment with every hardware unit and bills overages at the 95th percentile, eliminating the traffic spikes and surprise charges that make hyperscaler bandwidth costs unpredictable. Private traffic between customer nodes is fully included. All infrastructure is hosted in Tier III certified data centers (United States, The Netherlands, Singapore) with over 200Gbps of edge connectivity per availability zone and 20Gbps per server.

As enterprise infrastructure requirements grow more demanding and hyperscaler costs continue to climb, OpenMetal is expanding its hardware lineup, increasing bandwidth allocations, and deepening its confidential computing capabilities to meet organizations where they are today and where they are headed. For teams ready to take back control of their infrastructure, OpenMetal is ready.