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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 embedding-shape »

AlejandroM_E wrote: post #42
embedding-shape wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I would try to apply but as far as I know they require 4 hours overlap with PST which excludes Europe Wouldn't that depend less on where you are and more about your sleeping schedule? I generally go to bed around 04:00Z, up around 11:30Z sometime, seems that would work regardless of location, no?

Unless the position *strictly* requires the overlap (e.g. Manufacturing or Program Management), you can apply. The required overlap is the expected team commitment you should abide to, the logistics are up to you to make it work. If that sounds encouraging, please apply!

I'm happily voluntarily unemployed, but happy to hear my reasoning was accurate regardless, cheers and good luck :)

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by msh »

wasmainiac wrote: post #6

Could 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.

Turn key well designed onprem private cloud.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by bri3d »

cj wrote: post #23
wasmainiac wrote: post #6

Could 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.

Related question: Are services like AWS Outpost from public clouds the main competitor for Oxide?

I don’t know who they see as competitors in market positioning (ie, who is selling against them on their target buyer’s calendar). But the space is called hyperconverged computing and there are a few other players like Scale Computing building “racks you buy that run your VMs.”

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by zozbot234 »

jnsaff2 wrote: post #34
sylvinus wrote: post #26

Love Oxide and what they're building, but I'm not sure raising even more VC money is the way to build a generational company. Quite the opposite? With money you don't need, you're trading faster growth for more dependencies on third parties that will seek a ROI eventually?

There is a gold-rush going on. It needs plenty of compute besides GPU's, this is definitely the time to scale as quickly as possible.

I don't think any Oxide racks come with GPU's at present, and the power density of modern GPU-centric AI compute is on a rather unprecedented level. Oxide racks are very well cooled but are no match for the racks in an AI datacenter that's literally burning a full gigawatt of power.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by drstewart »

eigenspace wrote: post #53
benjijay wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Very cryptic; what are you actually saying here?

Sorry for being unclear. I just meant that I am always interested to hear about up-and-coming cloud providers, but I wouldn't touch one that's based out of the USA.

You shouldn't touch HN either. It's based out of the US. You would own fascists so hard by deleting your account.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by bri3d »

wasmainiac wrote: post #6

Could 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.

They’re players in a newish market segment called “hyperconverged,” basically “you buy a rack and it runs your workload, you don’t worry about individual systems/interconnect/networking etc because we handled it.”

Oxide seem to be the best and most thorough in their space because they have chosen to own the stack from the firmware upwards. For someone who cares in that dimension they are a clear leader already on that basis alone, for other buyers who don’t, hopefully it also makes their product superior to use as well.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by db48x »

greatgib wrote: post #44
bflesch wrote: post #17

Their website is so nice and smooth even on my shitty computer, not like the other announcement pages of major companies that only work on state of the art macbooks.

The website looks good but it is very hard to know what they do exactly and what they sell, if you can be their customer or not just browsing the website. If you don't know them before. Like do they sell a service or a product. Do they sell hardware, software or something else? it is very confusing.

I think https://oxide.computer/product/specifications makes it pretty clear:

    Compute Sleds (Total)         16, 24, or 32
      CPU Cores                   1024–2048
      Memory (DRAM)               8–32 TiB
      Storage                     465.75–931.5 TiB
    
    Network Switches              2
      Switching Capacity          12.8 Tbit/s
    
    Power Shelves                 Up to 2
      Power Supplies per Shelf    6 (5+1 or 3+3)
      Typical / Max Power Draw    12 / 15 kW
    
    Dimensions H × W × D          2354mm (92.7”) × 600mm (23.7”) × 1060mm (41.8”)
    Weight                        Up to ~2,518 lbs (~1,145 kg)
    Max Thermal Output            61,416 BTU/hr
    Airflow Requirements          145.8 × kVA CFM
If you need a rack full of computers that are managed programmatically via an API then this is the machine for you.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by Aurornis »

sylvinus wrote: post #26

Love Oxide and what they're building, but I'm not sure raising even more VC money is the way to build a generational company. Quite the opposite? With money you don't need, you're trading faster growth for more dependencies on third parties that will seek a ROI eventually?

Hardware businesses are capital intensive. They need the money.

They also need to grow and iterate faster. Their software stack is great, but their hardware is quite dated in a fast moving industry. This limits them to domains that value their software and security but don’t need the latest hardware for performance and aren’t necessarily concerned with performance per dollar, which is a small market.

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