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Who do you think should win the 2025 Superuser Awards? The annual Superuser Awards are to recognize organizations that have used open infrastructure to improve their business while contributing back to the community.
This year, the Superuser Awards winner will be announced at the OpenInfra Summit Europe, October 17-19! Join us at the annual OpenInfra Summit for an opportunity to collaborate directly with the international community of people building and running open source infrastructure using Linux, StarlingX, OpenStack, Kubernetes, Kata Containers and 30+ other technologies. Get your Summit tickets now!
Check out highlights of the incredible nine nominees that we have!
G-Research
G-Research runs one of the world’s largest OpenStack clouds, powering 50M+ data science jobs daily across 30MW+ of data centre capacity. Their GR-OSS team has contributed 1,000+ changesets to OpenStack and built projects like Armada to scale workloads across Kubernetes clusters. Open infrastructure gives G-Research the privacy, performance, and flexibility to focus on cutting-edge machine learning research while actively strengthening the open source ecosystem.
StackHPC
StackHPC is a 28-person consultancy driving open infrastructure for research computing, HPC, and AI. A top OpenStack contributor, the team created the Azimuth cloud portal, operates the Scalable Metal Service for CI and training, and regularly contributes upstream to projects like Ceph, Kubernetes, and Kolla-Ansible to improve performance, resilience, and usability.
STACKIT IaaS teams
STACKIT’s IaaS teams run the STACKIT Cloud on OpenStack, OVN/OVS, and their open-source project Yaook, powering 40,000+ VMs across two regions. Since 2018, they’ve contributed bug fixes, features, and innovations like OVN BGP support, collaborating with the community to scale and improve performance for millions of API requests per hour.
CIR team at Télécom Paris
The CIR team at Télécom Paris uses OpenStack to power research and education, enabling agile infrastructure, devops courses, and hands-on student projects. They run a large, GPU-enabled OpenStack and Kubernetes environment, contribute to open source projects like Software Heritage and Inkscape, and innovate by teaching OpenStack with real-world tools while maintaining high uptime through rolling upgrades and live migrations.
- 2025 Superuser Awards Nominee: ECMWF - September 16, 2025
- Meet the 2025 Superuser Awards Nominees - September 16, 2025
- 2025 Superuser Awards Nominee: CIR team at Télécom Paris - September 16, 2025
