A New Chapter for Mirantis — and Why I’m Excited About What Comes Next

Today we announced that Mirantis has entered into an agreement to be acquired by IREN. You can read the press release here, but I want to take a moment to talk about what this means — not just as a business transaction, but as the next chapter in a journey that our team, our customers, our partners, and our open source community have been part of building together.

Where we’ve come from

Mirantis has spent over a decade doing something genuinely hard: building enterprise-grade, open source infrastructure software that the world’s most demanding organisations trust to run their most critical workloads, with more than 1500 enterprises running on Mirantis today. That didn’t happen by accident. It happened because of the quality of our engineering, the depth of our customer relationships, and an unwavering commitment to open, standards-based software that puts our customers in control.

That foundation is what made this transaction possible. And it is what makes what comes next so exciting.

What we see ahead

The infrastructure industry is at an inflection point. AI is reshaping what enterprise and provider infrastructure needs to do — and the market needs an open standard for AI infrastructure that can manage that complexity at scale, across hardware, across providers, and across enterprise environments. Open, standards-based, and built for the demands of regulated industries and sovereign governments. That is exactly what k0rdent AI is built to be.

History is a useful guide here. Every major technology wave produces two camps: proprietary stacks built by integrated players for their own purposes, and open standards built for the whole industry. Linux against Windows. Android against Apple. Kubernetes against proprietary cloud. In each case, the open standard won, and in winning it accelerated the whole market. AI infrastructure is the next wave, and the same convergence is underway. The open standard for AI infrastructure is yet to be established. We believe that k0rdent AI is built to be that standard — and that the organisation that builds and maintains the open standard for AI infrastructure will play a defining role in the market that follows.

What this means for you

If you are a Mirantis customer or prospective customer: nothing changes in terms of your products, your contracts, your roadmaps, or the team you work with. What changes is that we now have significant backing to serve you better — today and as your infrastructure needs evolve.

If you are a partner: our commitment to building and growing the ecosystem is stronger than ever. Expect to hear from us soon about what this means for our joint plans.

If you are part of the open source community: our CTO Shaun O’Meara has written separately and directly about what this means for our open source commitments. I’d encourage you to read it. The short version is that we remain committed to Open Standards and our ongoing contributions to the open source community.

If you are a member of the Mirantis team: I am proud of what we have built together, and I am excited about what we are about to build. This is validation of a decade of hard work, and it is the beginning of something bigger.

Looking ahead

Transactions like this one are only as good as the execution that follows. We know that. Our job now is to continue to earn the trust that our customers, partners, and community have placed in us — and together with IREN to bring AI infrastructure online faster, support our customers through every stage of that journey, and continue advancing the k0rdent AI platform into the standard the market needs.

We are ready. Let’s go.

Alex Freedland

Co-founder & CEO, Mirantis