Metalsoft
Founded 2019 · 30 employees on LinkedIn · 1 known investors
MetalSoft provides bare metal orchestration software that enables provisioning, re-provisioning, and management of servers across multiple vendors and generations as a service. The platform automates datacenter infrastructure operations with capabilities for lifecycle management, asset tracking, compliance enforcement, and AI-driven optimization.
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Company profile
researched Aug 2026MetalSoft provides an intelligent infrastructure orchestration platform that turns fragmented on-premises hardware into automated, workload-compliant infrastructure. The platform unifies operations across compute, networking, and storage through a single control plane, and is used to build and operate private clouds, "AI factories," and AI cloud services.
Functionally, MetalSoft delivers a spectrum of cloud services on customer-owned hardware. Native capabilities include bare-metal IaaS provisioning, virtual machines with multi-tenancy, block storage, S3-compatible object storage, NFS file storage, SDN-based virtual private clouds with multi-tenant routing, managed Kubernetes (including Red Hat OpenShift), and GPU-as-a-Service with on-demand bare-metal or fractional GPUs. Additional integrated services cover managed databases via Kubernetes operators (PostgreSQL, Redis), function-as-a-service using Knative or OpenFaaS, CI/CD with ArgoCD or GitLab, LLM serving via vLLM/SGLang runtimes, and Jupyter notebook environments. The company positions these as parity equivalents to hyperscaler offerings such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud services.
Other stated use cases include multi-vendor server lifecycle and firmware management, self-service infrastructure operations, sandboxed environments for testing new technologies and AI agents with rapid deploy/wipe/redeploy cycles, AI-assisted operations aimed at reducing toil and mean time to repair, and infrastructure controls aligned to the EU Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) and EU AI Act, such as automated bare-metal network segmentation, workload isolation, and unified audit logging.
Business model
MetalSoft licenses software — an orchestration control plane deployed over a customer's own physical infrastructure — with sales driven through demo requests to enterprise and service-provider buyers.
Traction
MetalSoft's site lists customers and partners including Telstra, DataBank, Cirion, Cox, SpTel, Infosys, Dell Technologies, Nationale-Nederlanden, Telecom Italia, and T-Systems.
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Market position
The company positions its platform as an on-premises alternative that mirrors public cloud IaaS, PaaS, and AI-as-a-service offerings from AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.
MetalSoft emphasizes avoidance of both hardware and cloud vendor lock-in, supporting servers, switching, and storage from vendors including Dell, HPE, Supermicro, Cisco, Juniper, and Pure Storage under one control plane, and positions on data and operational sovereignty with hyperscaler feature parity while infrastructure, data, and code remain under customer control.
Technology
The platform acts as an abstraction and orchestration layer over physical hardware, automating provisioning and lifecycle management of servers, network equipment, and storage. It includes software-defined networking for tenant isolation and routing, native multi-tenant virtualization, storage provisioning (block, object with S3 API, and NFS file), cross-vendor firmware and server lifecycle management, and integrations with open-source stacks including Kubernetes, OpenShift, Knative/OpenFaaS, ArgoCD/GitLab, vLLM/SGLang, and Jupyter.
Go-to-market
Direct enterprise sales supported by demo requests on the company website, alongside relationships with hardware vendors and large telecom, data center, and integrator customers.
Enterprises operating on-premises infrastructure, telecommunications operators, data center and colocation providers, systems integrators, financial institutions subject to DORA, and AI cloud/GPU service providers.
Geography
Named customers and partners span Australia, the United States, Latin America, Singapore, India, the Netherlands, Italy, and Germany.
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Key figures
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Metalsoft do?
- MetalSoft is an infrastructure orchestration platform for building and operating private clouds, AI factories, and AI cloud services.
- Who are Metalsoft's investors?
- Metalsoft's investors include Dns Capital.