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Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by panick21_ »

alsetmusic wrote: post #335
esseph wrote: post #317

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Nutanix / Oxide have a VERY different market / customer base.

I've been curious about Oxide for a year or two without fully understanding their product. People talking about the "hyperconverged" market in this thread gave me an understanding for the first time. Given this, can you help me understand in what ways they are different? When I went to the Nutanix website yesterday, the link showed that'd I'd previously visited them (not a surprise, I look up lots of things I see men…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30688865

Here is an answer by steveklabnik about this topic.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by panick21_ »

akshitgaur2005 wrote: post #112
sudomateo wrote: post #80

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We're working on making this easier to understand. Stay tuned! We know the last decade or so of using public cloud providers has made people forget that hardware and software are things you can own and run successfully. Oxide is exactly that. Hardware and software designed together to give you the public cloud experience on-premises. Disclaimer: I work at Oxide.

I'm the undergrad who commented earlier. I’ve been poking around the Hubris source code and it’s exactly the kind of stack I want to work on. I'm actually doing the Redox Summer of Code this year, focused on implementing an EEVDF scheduler and a performance testing harness for the kernel. From the inside, is Oxide a place where a fresh grad can actually be useful? Or is the "complexity floor" of hardware/software co-…

I suggest this podcast that answers the question about 'fresh grads' and much more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN8lcIUKZAU

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by philipallstar »

shimman wrote: post #248
oconnor663 wrote: post #111

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On the other hand, it's normal to have heroes, and to need to have them.

This is a child mindset, people don't need heroes. They need leaders that care about them and want to better their communities; these leaders are found within your literal neighbors, friends, and family.

You could say the opposite, and I think with more effectiveness: people don't need leaders to care about them, as that's what children need. They need heroes to inspire them into leading and being good adults for themselves.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by zozbot234 »

zdp7 wrote: post #340
zozbot234 wrote: post #273

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That's mini ITX hardware, not really rack-sized in the sense of a common studio rack.

Right, it's the perfect size for a 10" mini rack designed primarily for home labs. Which is the form factor shown on the framework desktop mainboard product page.

10 in. wide mini racks are fine if you have very limited space at your disposal, but it's unclear that Oxide could bring much value there. The 19 in. width is not just for enterprise server equipment, it's in common use at studios that do all sorts of creative media production. That's where there's a really strong case that Oxide's rack-scaled solution (though of course in a reduced-height, custom format) could bring a lot of value, particularly given the recent explosive growth of local AI.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by avhception »

sergiotapia wrote: post #297
cmdrk wrote: post #226

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> too expensive for our internal server needs; not the right fit for our datacenter partners/customers You and me both. They're doing neat stuff, but I wonder how many other potential customers feel that way too. What is Oxide's market? It feels a bit like advanced alien technology that is ultimately a little too weird and expensive for most enterprises to adopt.

I always thought a company like Railway would be an Oxide customer. But Railway is building their own servers in their own datacenters. So I am really curious who is small enough to buy Oxide, but large enough to need Oxide?

Maybe DigitalOcean?

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by panick21 »

twoodfin wrote: post #199
zozbot234 wrote: post #38

I wonder how Oxide's basic value proposition changes with the very recent growth in rack-scale and multi-rack (datacenter-wide) compute for AI. Surely these other vendors have tech (particularly around network interconnect) that can be repurposed effectively for the more general private cloud workloads Oxide is focusing on.

Conversely, has Oxide discussed in depth how they see GPU compute? I’m guessing for their current target market of existing enterprise software it doesn’t matter, but the ownership and economics stories are at least as compelling for matmul code.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0JjG0Qfwi8

Watch the QA.

Basically, they Nvidia ecosystem is to closed for them to add value. And competing with Nvidia is difficult so its not their focus.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by twoodfin »

panick21 wrote: post #347
twoodfin wrote: post #199

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Conversely, has Oxide discussed in depth how they see GPU compute? I’m guessing for their current target market of existing enterprise software it doesn’t matter, but the ownership and economics stories are at least as compelling for matmul code.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0JjG0Qfwi8 Watch the QA. Basically, they Nvidia ecosystem is to closed for them to add value. And competing with Nvidia is difficult so its not their focus.

Was already on my Watch Later queue, thanks!

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by avhception »

UltraSane wrote: post #275
cmdrk wrote: post #226

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> too expensive for our internal server needs; not the right fit for our datacenter partners/customers You and me both. They're doing neat stuff, but I wonder how many other potential customers feel that way too. What is Oxide's market? It feels a bit like advanced alien technology that is ultimately a little too weird and expensive for most enterprises to adopt.

how does it compare to Nutanix?

Is that what DO is using at the moment? Never heard about it

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by kev507 »

Aurornis wrote: post #139
yla92 wrote: post #93

Has anyone purchased/enquired about an Oxide rack or currently running one ? any info on pricing ?

Prices are not public, but comments over the years have hinted it’s in the $500K to $1mm range. Their hardware is multiple generations behind at this point, however. I wonder if they’re starting to reduce the price because it’s hard to justify paying so much for old hardware. They could just be targeting customers who don’t care as much about performance or efficiency as they do the software stack.

Wanted to follow up on this, new sleds with AMD Turin (current gen CPUs) are shipping to select customers now with general availability very soon. https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/13/whats_next_for_oxide_...
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