
Vehicle Acquisition Network (VAN) is a purpose-built vehicle sourcing platform that enables car dealerships to acquire high-margin, fast-turning used vehicles directly from private sellers—bypassing auctions, reducing acquisition costs, and accelerating inventory turn.
Today’s automotive market is more competitive than ever. Wholesale prices are climbing, auction fees are rising, and reconditioning delays eat into profitability. VAN solves this by giving dealers the tools and talent they need to target, engage, and acquire for-sale-by-owner (FSBO) vehicles in their local market with speed and efficiency.
With VAN, dealers can:
Access thousands of local private-party listings in real time
Use AI-powered filters to find the most profitable cars
Automate personalized outreach and follow-up with sellers
Track communications, tasks, and acquisition progress in one unified CRM
Eliminate auction fees, transport delays, and wholesale surprises
For stores that lack time or staff to do this work in-house, VAN also offers a Managed Buyer program—a turnkey service where VAN’s expert acquisition team works on your behalf to find, contact, and negotiate with private sellers. It’s like hiring a full-time buyer without the overhead.
Whether you're a single rooftop looking for more control or a large group scaling a private-party acquisition strategy, VAN adapts to your dealership's workflow and goals. Dealers using VAN regularly see faster turn times, higher front-end grosses, and more predictable inventory pipelines.
Trusted by over 250 rooftops across the U.S. and Canada, VAN is how modern dealers compete with Carvana, CarMax, and other direct-to-consumer disruptors—by sourcing smarter, not just spending more.
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If your cloud bill has become harder to predict than your revenue, OpenMetal is worth a look.
We provide hosted private cloud and dedicated bare metal infrastructure as a service. Our private cloud is built on OpenStack and Ceph, with fully managed hardware, and priced on a flat-rate model that doesn't punish you for growth. No per-resource metering, no egress surprises, no bill that requires a spreadsheet to decode.
Our private cloud platform gives organizations dedicated hardware and full OpenStack access without the overhead of building or maintaining their own infrastructure. Deploy a private cloud in under an hour, integrate with your existing tools, and hand the operational burden to us.
For teams that need raw compute power without virtualization overhead, our bare metal servers offer dedicated hardware with the same transparent pricing and fast deployment. Run standalone or connect directly to an OpenMetal private cloud for a flexible hybrid setup.
OpenMetal is a practical choice for organizations running compute-intensive or latency-sensitive workloads including blockchain validators, AI and machine learning pipelines, high-frequency applications, and regulated industries where data residency and compliance requirements rule out shared public cloud environments.
If you're managing infrastructure costs at scale, moving workloads off a hyperscaler, or simply need dedicated hardware that performs consistently, OpenMetal gives you a straightforward path to get there without building everything yourself.
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Knox
Knox is a secret management solution created to securely store and rotate sensitive information, including secrets, keys, and passwords used across various services. At Pinterest, a wide range of keys and secrets are relied upon for numerous purposes, such as signing cookies, encrypting sensitive data, securing the network with TLS, accessing AWS machines, and interacting with third-party services. The potential for these keys to be compromised presented major challenges, as rotating them often required a deployment and usually involved modifications to the codebase. Previously, keys and secrets were kept in Git repositories at Pinterest, which led to their widespread replication throughout the organization's infrastructure and on numerous employee laptops, making it nearly impossible to monitor access and audit permissions for their use. To tackle these challenges, Knox was designed to make it easier for developers to securely access and manage confidential secrets, keys, and credentials. It guarantees the confidentiality of these sensitive assets while incorporating strong mechanisms for key rotation in case of a security breach, thereby significantly improving security practices. By adopting Knox, Pinterest seeks to not only enhance its secret management processes but also to strengthen its defenses against potential vulnerabilities, ensuring that sensitive information remains protected at all times. This proactive approach reflects Pinterest's commitment to safeguarding its data and maintaining trust with its users.
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Apache Knox
The Knox API Gateway operates as a reverse proxy that prioritizes pluggability in enforcing policies through various providers while also managing backend services by forwarding requests. Its policy enforcement mechanisms cover an extensive array of functionalities, such as authentication, federation, authorization, auditing, request dispatching, host mapping, and content rewriting rules. This enforcement is executed through a series of providers outlined in the topology deployment descriptor associated with each secured Apache Hadoop cluster. Furthermore, the definition of the cluster is detailed within this descriptor, allowing the Knox Gateway to comprehend the cluster's architecture for effective routing and translation between user-facing URLs and the internal operations of the cluster. Each secured Apache Hadoop cluster has its own set of REST APIs, which are recognized by a distinct application context path unique to that cluster. As a result, this framework enables the Knox Gateway to protect multiple clusters at once while offering REST API users a consolidated endpoint for access. This design not only enhances security but also improves efficiency in managing interactions with various clusters, creating a more streamlined experience for users. Additionally, the comprehensive framework ensures that developers can easily customize policy enforcement without compromising the integrity and security of the clusters.
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