Tim Monner

The team here at OpenMetal have all benefited from open source and thus feel it was imperative to contribute back what we can for others in the future. This cloud service was created to bring together what we believe about open source and what we see as a critical addition to the future of IT.

I am actually a product marketer. But I have been in tech for over 20 years supporting Data Center Infrastructure solutions, hosting and colocation companies, and cloud services. My most recent venture is with a open source focused cloud service companies that allows users to build and then deploy Private Clouds on OpenStack in less than a minute. So feel pretty comfortable in these tech spaces.

So admittedly, I am a marketer for an open source cloud provider. But from my view point on this topic, one of the biggest obstacles I think standing in the way of open source is it's brand in the market place. The big public cloud providers (you know who) have done a good job establishing their solutions as the go-to solution. And they enormous advertising budgets and spend heavily on NFL...

Our company was guided by a commitment to support the Open Source community. Being long-time users of OpenStack cloud, they understood how difficult and time intensive it can be to build and deploy on OpenStack. Therefore, our team set out to build an open source, OpenStack, cloud that can be deployed in less than a minute to compete with well-known public cloud providers. And they did....