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Re: The Cloud Computer

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Post by bigironcto » Thu, Oct 26, 2023, 2:03 PM UTC

chx wrote: post #254

bigironcto wrote: post #241

I am CTO of a large global data center provider posting with throwaway account. As a technologist, I really appreciate what they have done. Impressive work, high quality, however I don't understand who this is for. The meaningful market for Data Center hardware is pretty well defined in two clusters. People that build/make custom gear (such as Hyperscalers) and people that buys HP/Cisco/IBM/Dell... (blades or hyper-c…

Maybe you are not. This offering definitely sounds like something for on prem and not a large data center. Basically, if your core competence is hosting stuff you don't need the extra value they provide. But if your core competence is basically anything else and just need more than a single server under the IT guys' desk then this begins to look very exciting.

You might be right but if a customer won't have the size/scale, it won't value the unique proposition from Oxide. I hope I am wrong because it would be great to see a new player with a fresh perspective in the hardware market.

Re: The Cloud Computer

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Post by digitalsanctum » Thu, Oct 26, 2023, 2:03 PM UTC

Congrats to the Oxide team. I'm not a potential customer but still get a thrill from the open source projects from these folks.

My favorite is the automated CIO repo: https://github.com/oxidecomputer/cio

Re: The Cloud Computer

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Post by TrueDuality » Thu, Oct 26, 2023, 2:04 PM UTC

Wow! Congratulations! I've been following you guys for a while and have loved what you've been doing. Really want to get my hands on some of this hardware to play with.

I'd love to see a video exploring the rack and showing the first time setup.

Re: The Cloud Computer

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Post by e12e » Thu, Oct 26, 2023, 2:06 PM UTC

robertlagrant wrote: post #24

I'm a bit confused about them calling it a cloud computer. The primary benefit of cloud is you spend opex instead of capex. Isn't this moving back to capex again?

Private Cloud allows infrastructure team to run big server parks efficiently, while product teams can "buy" resources easily. It's essentially why Amazon made aws, why Google made Borg.

For a regional hospital for example, there might be a desire for in-house network and hardware - but perhaps the system for digital patient journals run on Kubernetes and managed databases.

Re: The Cloud Computer

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Post by tryauuum » Thu, Oct 26, 2023, 2:11 PM UTC

nickik wrote: post #103

NKosmatos wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'll second that, they should make it clear what they're selling and what they have to offer. Every company should have this in their main/landing page... If I can't understand what you're selling/offering in 30sec, then I'm not interested :-) If you take some time and read around their site you'll see that they're offering a ready to run (turnkey) server. They have everything packed together, they've integrated ever…

Literally on the main page there is a picture of a big computer. And then it says: Oxide Cloud Computer No Cables. No Assembly. Just Cloud. Contact Sales How much easier can they make it? They clearly want to sell computers.

Yeah but this just describes AWS UI. I even clicked on their demo, saw some dashboard for creating VMs, pretty unimpressive.

It wasn't obvious to me you can own the stuff where it runs (I hope I understood it correctly)

Re: The Cloud Computer

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Post by deweywsu » Thu, Oct 26, 2023, 2:12 PM UTC

For someone who's not familiar with what you get from AWS, this appears to be similar, on the surface anyway. Can someone explain how it's different?

Re: The Cloud Computer

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Post by rcxdude » Thu, Oct 26, 2023, 2:12 PM UTC

steve1977 wrote: post #41

throw0101a wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> They sell servers, but as a finished product. They sell rack-as-compute.[0] Their minimum order is one rack: You plug in power and network, connect to the built-in management software (API), and start spinning up VMs. [0] With built-in networking and storage.

So just hyperconverged infrastructure with a cute name?

Available to buy turnkey, not just rented out.

Re: The Cloud Computer

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Post by soulofmischief » Thu, Oct 26, 2023, 2:12 PM UTC

bigironcto wrote: post #241

I am CTO of a large global data center provider posting with throwaway account. As a technologist, I really appreciate what they have done. Impressive work, high quality, however I don't understand who this is for. The meaningful market for Data Center hardware is pretty well defined in two clusters. People that build/make custom gear (such as Hyperscalers) and people that buys HP/Cisco/IBM/Dell... (blades or hyper-c…

I wonder if they aim to target small operations and startups initially.

Re: The Cloud Computer

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Post by nkko » Thu, Oct 26, 2023, 2:13 PM UTC

I am supper impressed with how well-rounded they are. Wherever you look from git repo to the website and everything in between.

Re: The Cloud Computer

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Post by rvz » Thu, Oct 26, 2023, 2:13 PM UTC

I'm very skeptical on this despite so much praise yet no-one has used it.

It seems the only reason why people are getting too excited is because of the team members and the name.

What if this venture becomes yet another VC pump and acquire scam to get you to purchase a massive room heater?

They better not get themselves acquired like the rest of the hyped up VC scams out there.