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Prevent what? 0xide customers were running on-prem workloads before 0xide they just will have a much nicer way to do it now. >50% of enterprise workloads are still on-prem.
Oxide raises $200M Series C
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Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C
#312Could someone explains to me what the secret is here? Apart from the fancy marketing, is it the full integration? The hardware? It took me a while to find an actual picture of one of the modules.
You can get same type of hardware/software setup that hyperscailers use for their datacenters for your on-prem workloads.
Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C
#313These comments/upvotes feel astroturfed and any negative/questioning comments are heavily downvoted.
Might be because negative/questioning comments sound to be written by people who have no clue what they are talking about.
Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C
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They don't even have GPU systems, so...no?
Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C
#315Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you have ever struggled with a server whose bios won't netboot because there's a misconfiguration on the switch, or the Ethernet cable is not coded right for the speed of the server's card (because your vendor silently "upgraded" you to 25 Gbit because they were out of 10 Gbit cards), and then when it does boot, it is thermally throttled because it's tiny fans happen to be blowing in the one spot where your electr…
All that is fine and well, and I love coreboot, openbmc, etc. as much as the next guy, but how is this a business with growth or scale? In particular, you are not going to sell to the large clouds as they do a similar thing in house, you are not going to sell to the large LLM labs as there isn't much of a story with NVIDIA here. All you are selling to is on-prem deployments for old(er) school workloads, which to me i…
Honestly, I keep an eye on them because we are a core market for their product.. We run a bunch of K8s clusters, and Postgres databases. We currently use cloud, but if someone bought us up, and demanded we stop all cloud, we could move to something like this in a fairly short time, with limited changes. I wouldn't have to deal with Dell, plus VMWare, plus a SAN company plus a networking company, and hope they all work work together nicely.
I could get a spot in a colo, drop 2 fibers assigned to a few subnets, and be up and replicating our databases in a day or two. We have no need for GPU right now, but do need to often switch DB's to add cpu, ram, etc. Honestly, it would pay off in a year to 18 months, depending on the rumored prices, and colo costs.
Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C
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I actually did apply, The mere application takes hours upon hours, and for what a generic rejection email. This isn't the worst though, I recently went through an interview with another startup company, and after six interviews and a take-home project I found myself getting the same generic rejection. The CEO went out of his way to tell me he didn't like my resume since I've had to hop around a little bit to stay emp…
If you went through multiple rounds it likely means they were seriously considering you but ultimately they didn’t get to a yes. If it’s any comfort that means you did pretty well. The short stints on a resume is likely not the only reason you didn’t get to 100%, but unfortunately you should know that it’s seen as a pretty bad signal. The general expectation is 2 years minimum at a gig. If you have multiple short non…
I don’t disagree, nor do I have any solution but man, 1-2 years is a LONG time when you start a new gig and can tell within 1-2 weeks that it’s not a good fit.
Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C
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Of topic, but where the hell did Nutanix come from? I've never heard of them until recently and all of a sudden, they are being marketed as a serious competitor to VMware etc.
They have been around for nearly 20 years. I viewed them as an also-ran until Broadcom decided they didn’t need any of us as VMware customers anymore. Now Nutanix seems like a viable path for on-prem VM workloads that need a new home for those who don’t want to part with an arm and a leg on licensing but can’t move to public cloud either. I’m not sure how much of that market Oxide can capture. Not sure Nutanix is sti…
Nutanix / Oxide have a VERY different market / customer base.
Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C
#318Can they re-raise it in Series Rust?
I LOL'd -- or certainly snorted. Underrated post, anyway.
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How could a massively capex business like Oxide scale in the same manner that Valve did based on the current market movement of the industry that Oxide is addressing? I personally cannot see how that is at all possible. The cash required to back downstream capital in a business like this as it scales without it falling flat is surly well in excess of $6/700MM, if they manage to get by with with only selling 300/400 m…
Unfortunately since they already took VC money they have to keep doing it and each time they do it they do it the VCs would own more and more and would control the business. I predict in less than 10 years Oxide exits by way of being acquired or an IPO. The enshittification would have already begun by then. > You seem very sure of yourself in how business works! I'm curious now, how did you create your $100MM++ reven…
There's a lot of confusion here about the way VC operates (or companies, for that matter), but just to clarify one point: an IPO is not an "exit" -- it is a public offering. That is, an Oxide IPO, were we to be so lucky, would be a milestone towards being the generational company that we aspire to be.
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Hah, that might be slightly above what I'm ready to pay for a at-home server yes :) But given the right specifications and software integration, I'd probably be ready to pony up up to somewhere around 10K for a complete solution if it could replace all my existing hardware, even if it was more expensive than other options with worse tradeoffs.
You would need 3-phase power too. At 208V and 15kW it'll draw over 70A peak :P. If you can wire that up in your living room, I raise my glass to you!
Nothing a licensed electrician couldn't figure out, although with 230V plugs instead and probably closer to the garage than our living room :)