Our main expertise is Private Cloud (on-premise)
We are able to turn thousands of bare metal machines into one big machine, combining all their micro-processors, memory and storage capacity into one logical unit.
We believe future is in hybrid cloud – seamless integration of public and private clouds, taking best from both worlds and use each where it makes most sense. Our cloud industry is slowly moving into that direction, see for example Data sovereignty. However it’s not there yet.
All cloud solutions we have been building are Sovereign, Secure, with End-to-end Support. Additionally, they share these properties:
- Fully open source
- Without any vendor lock-in
What kind of on-premise cloud services is dNation providing?
We are able to design, install, update and operate bare metal clusters based on following technologies:
- OpenStack, Yaook or Sovereign Cloud Stack (SCS): for big installations scaling to hundreds or thousands of nodes
- Proxmox: for smaller installations up to 32 nodes
- Kubernetes: for clusters maximizing performance, e.g. providing base for Software as a Service (SaaS) capability
- Red Hat OpenStack and OpenShift: for institutions requiring certified environment backed up by Red Hat
Why would you want to run your infrastructure in on-premise, private or hybrid cloud?
1. Full control over your data
- You can decide where is your data stored, who has access to it and how he/she can use it
- You are immune to legislation like CLOUD Act which basically says that 3rd parties (e.g. U.S. and their allies) can access your data even if it is stored on servers within European Union, thus being in direct contradiction to GDPR
2. To save costs
- From certain amount of consumed compute resources (mainly micro-processors, memory and storage), on-premise is cheaper than public cloud
- X (formerly Twitter) saved 75% (look for “more on-prem”) of their cloud monthly costs when they moved significant part of their infrastructure from public to on-premise cloud
- In Basecamp case, by moving from AWS to on-premise they were able to reduce their bill from $3.2 million/year run rate to $1.3 million, so their initial investment of $700k returned in less than one year
- We can confirm this from our own experience – our yearly costs are reduced by 70% after we have started to use hybrid cloud
3. No vendor lock-in
- Everything we use is open source, so there is no vendor lock-in
Who can benefit from on-premise cloud?
Any company caring about data security, no vendor lock-in or saving costs. Following are several on-premise use case examples:
- Companies with significant bills paid to hyperscalers which want to save costs
- Businesses that want to avoid vendor lock-in
- Software producers offering their products as SaaS (Software as a Service)
- Public cloud providers using their on-premide cloud to provide IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) to their customers
- Manufacturing & Industrial (Industry 4.0) Companies which need to protect their proprietary designs and trade secrets
- High-Performance Computing (HPC) companies which need low-latency computing which is difficult to achieve in a public cloud
- Companies with Legacy Systems & Custom Applications that are not easily migrated to public cloud environments
- Research & Education Institutions requiring high-performance computing (HPC) for simulations, AI, and deep learning
- Media & Entertainment companies handling large video files that require fast processing and secure storage
- Healthcare & Pharmaceutical Companies storing sensitive data that must comply with regulations like GDPR
Where did we acquired all the knowledge necessary for running our own infrastructure and that of our customers on-premise?
We have been one of the main developers of Sovereign Cloud Stack (SCS) where we won and participated on 5 tenders in Kubernetes as a Service (KaaS), OpenStack networking and security, monitoring, automated testing and container registry areas.
SCS is de-facto Sovereign Cloud standard, developed in Germany and used by their government, universities and commercial entities (e.g. Lidl, Kaufland, Yorizon and several other cloud providers have been using it).
dNation is SCS Service Partner, providing SCS services and certifications.