We Are Your Independent Consultant For Sovereign, Secure Infrastructure

Is your bottom line drowning in SaaS creep? Are you watching your ROI go down the drain on a monthly subscription that you use once a year? Let’s talk about it. By focusing our efforts away from single-vendor cloud providers, we are able to offer reliable on-site and multi-site solutions that actually scale with your business. Stop planning your operations around vendor lock-in. Give Kraken a call today!

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OWN YOUR INFRASTRUCTURE, OWN YOUR FUTURE

We are Platform and Vendor Agnostic

We are hands-on, fluent in modern UNIX, and platform-and-vendor-agnostic. Our clients trust us because we avoid the vendor lock-in and subscription creep that comes with big-box managed IT providers. The solutions we provide are performant, secure, and built on today’s technology– not legacy code.

Secure, defense-in-depth solutions

Kraken delivers defense-in-depth, not just a hardened perimeter. We leverage technologies such as mutual TLS and full disk encryption to ensure that your most valuable secrets stay safely out of reach of prying eyes. Because you control your infrastructure, your most valuable data stays on your servers– not anyone else’s.

Open standards and reduction of cloud/SaaS bloat

Ready to stop paying monthly rent on software that locks your data behind proprietary formats? Let’s talk. We partner with local business owners to offer vendor-independent, open standards solutions to maximize every dollar of your IT budget. Contact us today to find out how we can save you up to 40% on cloud subscription fees.

THE PROBLEMS WITH VENDOR LOCK-IN

Once you lock into a proprietary ecosystem, your leverage at the bargaining table evaporates. Renewal cycles bring steep price hikes, reduced support tiers, and restrictive licensing changes. Vendors exploit the perceived friction of switching to keep you captive, even as the cost to stay far outpaces the investment needed to break free.

Proprietary formats, closed APIs, and custom architectures are designed to make off-boarding feel risky and expensive. Vendor lock-in relies on the sunk cost fallacy– convincing you to keep paying for a platform that stopped serving you years ago, just because of what you’ve already spent keeping it on life support.

When a corporate merger or acquisition affects your single-vendor platform, the new owner often sends out an end-of-life notice– on the former competitor’s entire product portfolio. If you relied on that platform for PCI-DSS compliance, you could be forced to migrate to their platforms– with zero control over timing, pricing, migration costs, or feature set.

Your operational data is your most valuable asset. Closed SaaS platform vendors treat it as leverage– frequently deprecating legacy tools, altering core workflows, or locking essential features behind expensive new pricing tiers. When you rely on a closed SaaS platform, you often end up paying more each year for a product roadmap that moves the goalposts further away from your actual operational needs.

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