Free 1-hour infrastructure assessment — no obligation

Break free from
big tech dependencies.

Tired of Oracle licensing audits, Microsoft 365 price hikes, or AWS bill shock? We migrate organisations to open source — in stages, at your pace, with zero downtime.

60–80% Cost reduction
Zero Downtime migrations
100% Vendor independence
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Your technology.
Your control. Your future.

Every proprietary dependency is a tax on your innovation, a limit on your control, and a risk to your continuity.

Reduce External Costs

Eliminate recurring licensing fees, reduce vendor premiums, and gain predictable infrastructure costs with open source alternatives.

Break Vendor Lock-in

Regain control of your data, infrastructure, and roadmap. No more forced upgrades or discontinued products.

Gradual Migration

Migrate in phases at your own pace. Run hybrid environments during transition. Reduce risk through staged implementation.

Own Your Stack

From applications to infrastructure, build on technology you control, understand, and can modify to your needs.

Technology Independence

Reduce dependencies on big tech giants. Build resilient systems that work for you, not for their shareholders.

Open source migration across your entire stack.

Comprehensive consulting from infrastructure and databases to business applications and AI.

Managed Open Source

Managed Open Source

  • We deploy, you own it: we set it up, hand it over, stay on for support
  • Ongoing operations: patching, updates, monitoring, incident response
  • Post-migration support: stabilise and optimise after go-live
  • Retainer model: predictable monthly cost, no per-incident billing
  • Scope: any stack we migrate — databases, identity, networking, DevOps, AI

Infrastructure Monitoring & Response

  • 24/7 observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, alerting pipelines
  • Proactive: we catch and resolve issues before they become incidents
  • Security monitoring: Wazuh, Suricata, log analysis, anomaly detection
  • Reporting: monthly health reports with capacity and cost trends
  • Escalation: clear runbooks, defined SLAs, direct engineer access
Infrastructure & Platform

Infrastructure & Cloud

  • Virtualisation: Proxmox VE, KVM/QEMU, oVirt, XCP-ng
  • From AWS/Azure/GCP to: self-hosted Kubernetes, OpenStack, private cloud
  • Container orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Nomad
  • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, SaltStack
  • Private cloud: complete design, implementation, and migration

Data & Databases

  • From Oracle/SQL Server to: PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB
  • NoSQL alternatives: MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis
  • Data warehousing: ClickHouse, Apache Druid
  • Search engines: Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Meilisearch
  • Migration planning: zero-downtime strategies

DevOps & CI/CD

  • From Jenkins/CircleCI to: GitLab CI, Drone, Tekton
  • Version control: self-hosted GitLab, Gitea
  • Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, VictoriaMetrics
  • Logging: ELK Stack, Loki, Graylog
  • Secret management: HashiCorp Vault, SOPS

Business Applications

  • From Microsoft 365 to: Nextcloud, OnlyOffice, Collabora
  • Email & collaboration: self-hosted mail, Mattermost, Rocket.Chat
  • CRM & ERP: Odoo, ERPNext, SuiteCRM
  • Project management: Taiga, OpenProject, Redmine
  • Document management: Paperless-ngx, Alfresco
Security, Analytics & AI

Security & Identity

  • Directory services: FreeIPA, Samba4 AD, OpenLDAP
  • Identity & SSO: Keycloak, Authentik, OAuth/SAML
  • VPN & networking: WireGuard, OpenVPN, ZeroTier, Tailscale
  • Firewall & security: pfSense, OPNsense, nftables
  • Certificate management: Let's Encrypt, internal PKI

Analytics & BI

  • From Tableau/PowerBI to: Apache Superset, Metabase
  • Data processing: Apache Spark, Apache Flink
  • Analytics platforms: Matomo (vs Google Analytics)
  • Dashboards: Grafana, Redash
  • Custom solutions: Jupyter, Observable

AI & Machine Learning

  • From OpenAI/Anthropic to: self-hosted Llama, Mistral, Qwen
  • LLM deployment: Ollama, vLLM, LocalAI, LM Studio
  • Vector databases: Qdrant, Milvus, Weaviate, ChromaDB
  • ML platforms: MLflow, Kubeflow, Ray
  • Privacy & cost: keep data on-premises, slash API costs

You don't have to migrate everything at once.

We specialise in gradual transitions — one service at a time, with parallel systems and rollback capability throughout.

Phased Migration

One service at a time. Test, validate, proceed. Reduce risk through incremental change.

  • Start with non-critical systems
  • Validate performance
  • Build team expertise
  • Maintain rollback capability

Hybrid Environments

Run both systems in parallel. Keep critical workloads stable while building alternatives.

  • Data synchronisation
  • Unified authentication
  • Shared infrastructure
  • Gradual workload shifting

Selective Replacement

Replace what makes business sense. Optimise for ROI, not ideology.

  • Cost-benefit per service
  • Prioritise high-cost systems
  • Strategic vendor relationships
  • Pragmatic approach

Risk Mitigation

Parallel systems mean zero downtime. Test thoroughly, maintain fallbacks.

  • Zero-downtime transitions
  • Comprehensive testing
  • Quick rollback procedures
  • Business continuity first

Common cohabitation scenarios

Email & Collaboration

Run Nextcloud alongside Microsoft 365 → Gradually shift users → Eventually decommission M365

Cloud Infrastructure

Build private Proxmox cluster → Migrate dev/test first → Production follows → Keep AWS for burst

Databases

Deploy PostgreSQL replica → Sync from Oracle → Test read workloads → Shift writes gradually

Identity Management

Install Samba4 AD → Sync with existing Active Directory → Migrate services → AD becomes secondary

AI & LLMs

Deploy Ollama with Llama/Mistral → Test use cases → Replace OpenAI calls → Keep cloud AI for overflow

Strategic, phased migration
with minimal disruption.

A proven five-step process designed to reduce risk at every stage.

1

Assessment & Discovery

We audit your current technology stack, identify dependencies, calculate total cost of ownership, and map migration opportunities.

  • Complete infrastructure inventory
  • Dependency mapping
  • Cost analysis & ROI projection
  • Risk assessment
2

Strategy & Planning

Design a phased migration roadmap with clear milestones, fallback plans, and cohabitation strategies.

  • Technology selection
  • Migration sequencing
  • Cohabitation architecture
  • Timeline & resource planning
3

Proof of Concept

Build working prototypes, validate approaches, and demonstrate capabilities before full commitment.

  • Pilot implementations
  • Performance testing
  • Integration validation
  • Team training
4

Migration & Cohabitation

Execute phased migration with parallel systems, ensuring business continuity throughout the transition.

  • Incremental deployment
  • Data migration & synchronisation
  • Hybrid operation
  • Rollback capabilities
5

Optimisation & Handoff

Fine-tune performance, establish operations processes, and transfer knowledge to your team.

  • Performance optimisation
  • Documentation & runbooks
  • Team enablement
  • Ongoing support planning

Why choose open source?

Cost Reduction

60–80%

Typical reduction in software licensing and infrastructure costs over 3 years

Vendor Independence

100%

Complete control over your technology choices and roadmap

Transparency

Full Access

Source code visibility, no black boxes, complete auditability

Community Support

Global

Access to worldwide developer communities and rapid innovation

Real impact

"By migrating from proprietary cloud services to self-hosted open source alternatives, we reduced our infrastructure costs by 70% while gaining complete control of our data and systems. The Validus team made it seamless."
— Series B SaaS company, West Africa (name withheld by NDA)

Deep experience across the open source ecosystem.

Operating Systems

Linux (Ubuntu, RHEL, Debian) FreeBSD OpenBSD

Virtualisation

Proxmox VEKVM/QEMUoVirtXCP-ngLXC/LXD

Container & Orchestration

KubernetesDockerPodmanNomadOpenShift

Infrastructure as Code

TerraformAnsiblePuppetSaltStack

Databases

PostgreSQLMySQL/MariaDBMongoDBRedisCassandra

Monitoring & Observability

PrometheusGrafanaELK StackLokiJaeger

Identity & Directory

FreeIPASamba4 ADOpenLDAPKeycloakAuthentik

Networking & Security

pfSenseOPNsenseWireGuardHAProxyNginxTraefik

AI & Machine Learning

OllamaLocalAIvLLMLlama.cppPyTorchTensorFlowHugging FaceMLflowQdrantChromaDB

What you can stop paying for.

The highest-starred open source projects that replace expensive SaaS and enterprise software. We deploy and manage all of them.

Star counts sourced from GitHub. We manage all of these — deployment, updates, monitoring, and support.

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