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Managed Cloud That Runs
Like Clockwork

Your Cloud Team, Without the Overhead. A named team of engineers dedicated to your infrastructure, available 24/7 across three time zones. Zero-friction migration. One SLA that covers everything.

99.95%
Application SLA
24/7
NOC Coverage
15min
Incident Response
500+
Projects Delivered

The Cloud Management Burden

Your engineering team should be building products, not fighting infrastructure fires at 3 AM. Yet most companies spend up to 40% of their engineering capacity on operational toil.

Sound familiar? You are not alone. These are the exact problems we solve every day for companies like Deezer, Molotov, and Dailymotion.

Alert Fatigue

Hundreds of alerts, no context. Your on-call engineers burn out triaging noise instead of resolving real incidents.

Cost Overruns

Cloud bills that grow faster than your revenue. Orphaned resources, oversized instances, and zero visibility into spend.

Skills Gap

Cloud expertise is expensive and hard to retain. One departure can leave critical knowledge gaps across your stack.

Vendor Complexity

Multi-cloud sprawl with fragmented SLAs, separate billing, and no single pane of glass. Complexity that compounds every quarter.

We Manage Both Worlds

Whether you run on public cloud, private infrastructure, or a mix of both — we provide the same level of operational excellence, 24/7 coverage, and engineering rigor across all environments.

Managed Public Cloud

We operate your workloads on AWS, Azure, GCP, and OVHcloud with certified expertise across all major providers. Our managed services include architecture design, migration, FinOps cost optimization, security hardening, and 24/7 incident response.

  • Multi-cloud strategy & architecture
  • FinOps — 30% avg. cost savings
  • Cloud-native monitoring & security
  • Migration & modernization services
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Managed Private Cloud

For workloads requiring total control, data sovereignty, or regulatory compliance (HDS, GDPR, ISO 27001), we design and operate dedicated private cloud infrastructure using open-source platforms — eliminating vendor lock-in and licensing cost explosion.

  • OpenNebula & Proxmox expertise
  • VMware migration & replacement
  • Data sovereignty & HDS compliance
  • GPU clusters & AI infrastructure
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Private Cloud — High Demand

VMware to Open Source:
The Migration Your Budget
Has Been Waiting For

Broadcom's acquisition of VMware has fundamentally changed the equation for every organization running vSphere. Licensing costs have been multiplied by 3 to 10x, perpetual licenses have been replaced by mandatory subscriptions, and product bundles force you to pay for capabilities you don't use. For many enterprises, the annual VMware bill has become the single largest line item in their infrastructure budget.

The good news: the European open-source virtualization ecosystem has matured dramatically. Platforms like OpenNebula (developed in Spain) and Proxmox VE (developed in Austria) now deliver enterprise-grade features — live migration, high availability, software-defined networking, integrated backup — that match or exceed VMware capabilities, at a fraction of the cost and with zero vendor lock-in. As European-born solutions, they align naturally with EU data sovereignty requirements and digital autonomy goals.

As a managed cloud provider with 25+ years of virtualization expertise, we handle the entire migration journey: from initial assessment through production cutover and ongoing 24/7 operations on your new open-source platform.

The Broadcom Impact

3-10x
Licensing Cost Increase

Overnight price hikes with no performance improvement. Perpetual licenses eliminated in favor of mandatory subscriptions.

100%
Forced Bundling

Product SKUs consolidated into expensive bundles. You pay for features you don't need and can't opt out.

-50%
Partner Ecosystem Reduction

Broadcom has dismantled the VMware partner program, reducing support options and increasing dependence on a single vendor.

After Migration with IG1

60-80%
Licensing Cost Reduction

Open-source platforms eliminate per-socket and per-VM licensing. Pay only for support subscriptions if needed.

0
Vendor Lock-In

Standard KVM hypervisor, open APIs, open formats. Your VMs run on industry-standard technology, forever portable.

24/7
Managed Operations by IG1

Same enterprise-grade NOC coverage you had with VMware, now running on open-source. We monitor, patch, and operate.

Two Proven Alternatives

We recommend the right platform based on your scale, team, and requirements.

OpenNebula

European (Spain) · Best for: Multi-site, hybrid, large-scale

Enterprise cloud management platform that unifies private, public, and edge computing. OpenNebula provides a VMware-like management experience with seamless VM migration, multi-tenancy, and native Kubernetes integration — ideal for organizations operating across multiple data centers or planning hybrid cloud strategies.

Multi-Hypervisor

KVM, Firecracker, LXC — choose the right engine for each workload

vCenter Migration

Import VMware VMs directly with built-in migration tooling

Edge & Hybrid

Orchestrate workloads across data centers, edge sites, and public cloud

Kubernetes Native

Run VMs and containers side by side with integrated K8s management

Iguana Solutions is an official OpenNebula partner, featured in our Tech Day keynotes alongside NVIDIA and Dell.

Proxmox VE

European (Austria) · Best for: Single-site, straightforward replacement

Complete open-source virtualization platform combining KVM and LXC with a powerful web interface. Proxmox is the most direct VMware replacement for organizations seeking familiar management tools, integrated storage (Ceph, ZFS), and a clear upgrade path without the complexity of a full cloud management stack.

VMware Import

Built-in VMDK/OVA import tool for fast VM conversion

HA Clustering

Live migration, fencing, automatic failover across nodes

Ceph & ZFS Storage

Software-defined storage with replication, snapshots, and thin provisioning

Backup Server

Integrated Proxmox Backup Server with dedup, encryption, and scheduling

Proxmox is used by over 800,000 hosts worldwide, from SMBs to Fortune 500 companies.

Our 6-Phase Migration Methodology

A rigorous, battle-tested process that ensures zero data loss and minimal downtime.

01

Environment Discovery

Complete inventory of your VMware estate: vCenter topology, ESXi hosts, VM configurations, storage volumes (VMFS, vSAN), distributed switches, resource pools, DRS/HA rules, backup policies, and licensing costs. We map every dependency so nothing is missed.

02

TCO Analysis & Platform Selection

Side-by-side cost comparison: current VMware spend vs. OpenNebula vs. Proxmox over 3 and 5 years. We factor in licensing, support contracts, hardware reuse, training costs, and operational overhead to recommend the optimal platform for your environment.

03

Architecture Design

Design the target architecture: compute nodes, storage backend (Ceph, NFS, local), networking topology (VLANs, SDN, bridges), HA clustering, backup strategy, and monitoring stack. Every component is documented and validated before deployment.

04

Pilot Migration

Deploy the target platform alongside your existing VMware infrastructure. Migrate a representative set of non-critical workloads first: convert VMDK disks, validate network connectivity, test application behavior, and benchmark performance against baselines.

05

Production Cutover

Phased migration of all production workloads during scheduled maintenance windows. Live VM migration where possible, cold migration with minimal downtime for stateful workloads. Rollback procedures validated and ready at every step. Zero data loss guaranteed.

06

Operate & Optimize

Post-migration hypercare period followed by ongoing 24/7 managed operations. Our NOC monitors your new platform around the clock: patching, capacity planning, performance tuning, security updates, and continuous optimization to maximize ROI.

What We Migrate

Compute
  • Virtual machines (VMDK → QCOW2)
  • Resource allocations & reservations
  • VM templates & clones
  • Custom OS configurations
Storage
  • VMFS/vSAN → Ceph/ZFS/NFS
  • Snapshot policies
  • Thin/thick provisioning
  • Shared storage configurations
Networking
  • Distributed switches → SDN/OVS
  • VLAN configurations
  • Load balancer rules
  • Firewall policies
Operations
  • HA/DRS rules → native HA
  • Backup jobs & schedules
  • Monitoring & alerting
  • RBAC & access policies

Ready to Break Free from VMware?

Get a free assessment of your VMware environment and a detailed TCO comparison with OpenNebula and Proxmox. No commitment, no sales pitch — just honest engineering advice.

Get Your Free Assessment

The IG1 Managed Cloud Model

You get a named, dedicated team — not a ticket queue. A Service Delivery Manager, a Tech Leader, and a Sales Representative who know your infrastructure inside out.

Your Team

Developers, product managers, and stakeholders focused on building what matters.

IG1 Dedicated Team

SDM Tech Leader Sales Rep

Named professionals who know your stack, your team, and your business goals.

Your Infrastructure

AWS Azure GCP OVHcloud

Managed, monitored, and optimized. One SLA across all providers.

Single application-layer SLA — not fragmented infrastructure SLAs. We own the outcome, not just the components.

What We Manage

Six pillars of managed cloud operations, built on 25 years of running production infrastructure for companies that cannot afford downtime.

Cloud Architecture & Migration

Well-Architected reviews, migration planning, and zero-downtime transitions from on-premise or between cloud providers.

  • Well-Architected Framework reviews
  • Lift-and-shift & re-architecture
  • Multi-cloud strategy design

24/7 Operations & NOC

Follow-the-sun coverage across Paris, Miami, and Tunis. Incident detection, escalation, and resolution around the clock.

  • Follow-the-sun across 3 time zones
  • Sismology & Journalogy monitoring
  • 15-minute critical incident response

FinOps & Cost Optimization

FinOps is not an add-on, it is built into every engagement. We treat your cloud budget like our own.

  • Rightsizing & reserved instances
  • Cost allocation dashboards
  • Monthly optimization reviews

Security & Compliance

Security by Design with DevSecOps integration. From policy enforcement to audit trails, compliance is continuous.

  • DevSecOps pipeline integration
  • Continuous compliance monitoring
  • Automated audit trails

Backup & Disaster Recovery

Defined RPO/RTO targets with tested recovery plans. Cross-region replication and automated failover.

  • Defined RPO & RTO targets
  • Cross-region replication
  • Quarterly DR testing

Performance Engineering

Proactive performance optimization through load testing, auto-scaling strategies, and bottleneck analysis.

  • Load & stress testing
  • Auto-scaling configuration
  • Bottleneck identification & tuning

Our Proprietary Toolchain

Built over 25 years of managing production infrastructure, our in-house tools give us capabilities that off-the-shelf solutions simply cannot match.

Sismology

Metrics

Our proprietary metrics engine built on Prometheus and Victoria Metrics. One data point every 15 seconds, with predictive algorithms that detect anomalies before they become incidents.

1 metric every 15 seconds
Predictive anomaly detection
Grafana dashboards per client

Journalogy

Logs

Centralized log aggregation and analysis with real-time alerting. Every log line, indexed and searchable, with automated Slack notifications for critical patterns.

Full-text log search
Real-time Slack alerts
Pattern-based anomaly flagging

Muppet

Config

Our Puppet-based configuration management stack that enforces infrastructure consistency. Every server converges to its desired state every 30 minutes, eliminating drift.

Puppet-based desired state
Convergence every 30 minutes
Zero configuration drift

Service Plans

Transparent pricing, no surprises. Every plan includes a dedicated account team and access to our proprietary toolchain. Scale up as your needs grow.

Essential

For teams starting their managed cloud journey

$499 /month
  • 10 service requests per month
  • 24-hour response time
  • Infrastructure monitoring (Sismology)
  • Dedicated Customer Success Manager
  • Monthly reporting
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Most Popular

Managed

For production workloads that demand reliability

$1,990 /month
  • 25 tickets per month
  • 4-hour incident response
  • 24/7 Slack channel with your team
  • Managed CI/CD pipelines
  • FinOps reviews & cost dashboards
  • Full Sismology + Journalogy stack
Get Started

Managed+

For mission-critical workloads with zero tolerance for downtime

$4,990 /month
  • Unlimited tickets & requests
  • 15-minute critical incident response
  • Full infrastructure management
  • Quarterly steering committees
  • 99.95% application-layer SLA
  • Dedicated SDM + Tech Leader + Sales Rep
  • DR testing & performance engineering
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All plans include access to Sismology, Journalogy, and Muppet. Custom enterprise plans available for large-scale deployments.

Client Results

Real outcomes from real partnerships. Here is what happens when you hand your cloud operations to a team that has been doing this for over two decades.

D

Deezer

Music Streaming · 15+ Year Partnership

15+
Years together
99.99%
Uptime achieved

From startup infrastructure to a global streaming platform with 16M+ subscribers. IG1 managed the entire scaling journey, from bare metal to hybrid cloud.

M

Molotov

Live TV Streaming

40%
Cost reduction
3x
Faster deployments
"Exceptional economic efficiency. IG1 helped us achieve broadcast-grade reliability at a fraction of the cost of building an in-house ops team."

-- CEO, Molotov

W

Webedia

Digital Media

500M+
Monthly page views
Zero
Unplanned outages

Migrated from legacy hosting to a fully managed multi-cloud architecture. IG1 handles peak traffic events with auto-scaling and predictive monitoring.

Trusted by industry leaders

Deezer Molotov Dailymotion Webedia Spartoo

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Let Us Run Your Cloud

Stop spending engineering capacity on operational toil. Get a dedicated team that knows your infrastructure inside out, backed by 25 years of expertise and proprietary tooling that delivers results from day one.