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Re: The Cloud Computer

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Post by mstade »

brucepink wrote: post #296
mstade wrote: post #284

It bugs me more than it should that they flirt with hexadecimal numbers in their branding with the whole 0x thing, but the logo is 0xide when clearly it ought to be 0x1de. Designer came up with a clever idea but didn't understand hexadecimal, and no one had the heart to tell them? :o) I'm kidding, mostly. The engineer in me is bothered by it, but the part of my brain that cares more about design and branding understa…

You'll like https://admin.pci-ids.ucw.cz/read/PC/01de then.

Haha indeed I do! :o)

Re: The Cloud Computer

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Post by samcat116 »

silverlake wrote: post #212
fefe23 wrote: post #11

This is actually a pretty big deal. They sell servers, but as a finished product. Not as a cobbled together mess of third party stuff where the vendor keeps shrugging if there is an integration problem. They integrated it. It comes with all the features they expect you to want if you wanted to build your own cloud. Also, they wrote the software. And it's all open source. So no "sorry but the third party vendor droppe…

How is this different from AWS Outpost?

This is a one time cost, AWS is a rent only model

Re: The Cloud Computer

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Post by reffaelwallen »

alberth wrote: post #251
LoganDark wrote: post #248

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They're selling a rack that hosts an entire virtual cloud. Nobody has done that yet. There have been servers with hypervisors preinstalled, but nothing like this.

Oracle, AWS & Azure all have "Cloud at Customer" offerings. And these offerings have existed for years. And from hardware manufacturers, Dell/VCE, Nutanix, and more "hyper-converged" infra has existed. Note: I'm not being a hater. I'm just genuinely confused. --- https://www.oracle.com/cloud/cloud-at-customer/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-stack https://aws.amazon.com/outposts/

maybe its about allowing you to create your own cloud, not using a third party vendor's software? its not a computer you hook up to a cloud, it is its own cloud? i only know about aws outpost tho, so I might be wrong

Re: The Cloud Computer

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Post by otabdeveloper4 »

drzaiusx11 wrote: post #139
otabdeveloper4 wrote: post #64

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With hypervisor support it really isn't

What this guy said: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38024122

If you have a rack like that you'd probably want it to run a real database or server backend.

Re: The Cloud Computer

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Post by steveklabnik »

deweywsu wrote: post #266

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?

AWS rents you time on their servers. We sell you servers.

The difference is you own the hardware.

Re: The Cloud Computer

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Post by PoignardAzur »

throw0101c wrote: post #188
mathverse wrote: post #163

This is too startup-y and niche and too small to attract enough companies on the market. Best case this gets acquired by HP,IBM or Dell and will die out because talent will leave. I know a 4bn/y revenue company that could greatly benefit from this but they will never even consider buying from a company like this.

> This is too startup-y and niche and too small to attract enough companies on the market. From their press release: > Oxide customers include the Idaho National Laboratory as well as a global financial services organization. Additional installments at Fortune 1000 enterprises will be completed in the coming months. * https://www.bloomberg.com/press-releases/2023-10-26/oxide-un... From an interview: > And what was th…

How can you be so sure? I'm sure GP did a ton of market research before making that comment. This company is probably doomed.

Re: The Cloud Computer

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Post by steveklabnik »

throw-DO-178C wrote: post #310
TrueDuality wrote: post #85

I'd like to add that their open source code is also EXTREMELY high quality. If you're an embedded developer go take a look at Hubris and Humility. I ended up using those to GREAT effect for this custom one-off aerospace device and it was a fantastic experience to integrate with. Definitely a change from what I was used to that took a bit of getting used to.

> ... code is also EXTREMELY high quality. If you're an embedded developer go take a look at Hubris and Humility. So, Humility is like MC/DC? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_condition/decision_co...

Humility is a debugger, not a code coverage tool.

Re: The Cloud Computer

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Post by gleb »

steveklabnik wrote: post #312
dustingetz wrote: post #216

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way better explanation than the website copy "no cables no assembly just cloud" wtf is that

Obviously different marketing copy speaks to different people. But that is referring to how, when you buy a rack from us, you don't need to put everything together and cable it all up: you pull it out of the box, plug in networking and power, boot the thing up, and you're good to go. Installation time is hours, not days or weeks, which is the norm.

I wouldn't be dismissive of people telling you that the product description can be improved. My opinion is that the description of the product in this thread will outperform your site 10 to 1.

Re: The Cloud Computer

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Post by throw0101c »

candiddevmike wrote: post #319
qaq wrote: post #301

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They literally had CTOs of F100 companies that want to buy this gear as part of VCs pitch. Because as you can imagine your question was the first question VC's asked.

Purchasing a ton of hardware from a startup seems extremely risky for a F100. It's one thing to be left holding the bag when a SaaS startup goes under, but when you just spent millions on gear that is now completely unsupported... eek. I'd be curious to see what companies are interested, Oxide doesn't have any logos on their website which is a little odd given the space.

> Purchasing a ton of hardware from a startup seems extremely risky for a F100.

If you're working for a megacorp nothing tends to happen quickly, so there will be a slow roll-out over a multi-year period as old hardware gets phased out and new hardware is brought in for a refresh.

If there's a hiccup at any point they'll simply keep the previously purchased stuff running and start a new roll-out with another vendor next fiscal.

> I'd be curious to see what companies are interested, Oxide doesn't have any logos on their website which is a little odd given the space.

1. They're just starting out. 2. Some of their customers want to be (or start-out initially) discreet:

> Oxide customers include the Idaho National Laboratory as well as a global financial services organization. Additional installments at Fortune 1000 enterprises will be completed in the coming months.

* https://www.bloomberg.com/press-releases/2023-10-26/oxide-un...

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