The bottom line.
Every customer wants your software in a different shape — on-prem, in their VPC, multi-tenant SaaS, or sovereign and air-gapped — and each is its own installer, support contract and compliance pack. Containerize once on OMC and ship the same signed image three ways.
You keep the software; Options keeps the platform, the 24×7 operations and the inherited compliance. Implementations compress from months to weeks, core consumption drops, and one compliance posture covers every footprint. A Validation Sandbox proves it on one module first.
Why now.
Deployment-mode fragmentation
Every customer wants a different shape. Three or four parallel installers per release, and roadmap velocity decays as your logo count grows.
Per-core licensing pressure
Broadcom's VMware repricing and per-core OS and database licences inflate every customer footprint. Container density brings the core count down.
DORA third-party risk
FSI buyers must register every ICT provider and evidence exit plans. An ISV without a clear deployment story fails their due diligence.
Private-SaaS demand
Tier-1 and tier-2 buyers reject multi-tenant public SaaS for systems of record. They want SaaS economics with single-tenant isolation.
AI feature pressure
Buyers expect AI features but won't let customer data reach public LLMs. Sovereign inference on PrivateMind ships them safely.
The strategy.
Where It Applies
- FSI software vendors: capital markets, banking, insurance, asset management, wealth-tech
- Teams maintaining three or more parallel installers across deployment topologies
- Product orgs whose roadmap velocity decays as customer count grows
- ISVs being asked for sovereign, DORA-aligned or private-SaaS options
Honest Edge Cases
- Sub-microsecond order-execution cores — keep on bare metal; the surrounding stack still applies
- Heavy desktop client applications — server tier yes, client tier no
- Products with single-tenant assumptions too deep for the private-SaaS shape
Three shapes, one image
Three shapes. One image.
Every customer, every shape, runs the same signed, scanned, version-pinned container image. One code path to maintain, one CVE response, one compliance posture.
Customer-managed
Your customer's platform team runs the image on their own OpenShift — their data centre, cloud or colo. You ship the artifact; they own operations.
Options-managed
Options PodOps operates OpenShift for them — in their environment or on Options Dedicated infrastructure. 24×7 platform ops, compliance inherited.
Private SaaS
Options runs the image in a per-customer isolated namespace on Advanced. SaaS economics, single-tenant isolation, named-tenant compliance evidence.
How it runs on OMC.
Whichever shape a customer picks, the image lands on the same four-layer stack. Private SaaS runs on Advanced; the tier changes worker isolation, not the foundation.
Standard
Shared, multi-tenant platform. Fastest way onto FSI-hardened Kubernetes.
Advanced
Dedicated worker pools with tighter data-plane isolation and custom SLAs.
Dedicated
Single-tenant control plane in your jurisdiction. Full sovereignty over data and identity.
PodOps managed service
Options FSI hardening
Red Hat OpenShift
Kubernetes
Validation Sandbox.
A signed 30-day engagement where we containerize one core module on the platform, measure its cores against your current VM baseline, and hand you the evidence — plus a compliance-inheritance map and a reference architecture for all three shapes.
- ✓ No procurement, no lock-in, no obligation to continue
- ✓ One module, measured against your own VM baseline
- ✓ Named FSI platform architect from day one
A build-or-walk-away decision at day 30 — not a free pilot, not a forever-evaluation.
Engagement path.
Discovery
A 60-minute call to confirm your customer footprint, deployment mix and engineering capacity.
30-day sandbox
We containerize one module, measure cores against your baseline, and map the inherited controls.
Full production
Four phases: containerize at scale, package the three shapes, harden compliance, cut over — then joint go-to-market.
Proof and business case.
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