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Curious if oxide is considering a 1-2U product. Feel like there is a larger potential customer base there but it also seems like they would lose the edge they built by owning the full rack. (I.e. integrating with customer TORs and network fabric is a nightmare.)
AMD Pro CPU with SKINIT and SEV
AMD OpenSIL + OSS coreboot firmware
Motherboard with Infineon 9672 (or newer) TPM for DRTM secure launch
ECC memory
Add-on modules for OcuLink [2] (external PCIe) and Nitrokey (2FA, HSM) with OSS Rust firmware [3]
OS support for QubesOS (with Oxide management VM) or Oxide custom OS
High-integrity client workstation within Oxide manufacturing supply chain(s)
Customer local admin of Oxide rack
Customer remote admin of Oxide rack, with mutual attestation
Oxide remote troubleshooting of customer Oxide rack, with mutual attestation
[1] Framework, https://oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide-and-friends/1632642. Lenovo and other OEMs may follow Framework's lead.
[2] OcuLink expansion module, https://community.frame.work/t/oculink-expansion-bay-module/...
[3] Nitrokey Rust firmware, https://github.com/Nitrokey/nitrokey-3-firmware
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I do not purchase hardware, but $1MM is way above what I would have expected. Going to Dell, the most expensive pre-built rack mount starts at ~$30k. Assuming 16 of those only gets you to $480k. Throw in an extra premium for the rack itself + small company margins still leaves me reaching to get to that price point.
Price delta is out of the box cloud orchestration value (imho). Most large enterprises would struggle to build this themselves (Mesos->OpenShift->Kubernetes/Tanzu/etc), so you’re paying for turnkey cloud on prem. Probably save in the long run considering public cloud margins. Enterprise CIO doesn’t want a hobby project (attempting to cobble together internal cloud orchestration and infra), they want to be able to sho…
Are there any videos or screencasts of one of these in operation? I’d love to see a fresh out of box to up and running walkthrough similar to what VMWare produced for Tanzu. It’s such a niece thing that lots of tech people who’d be really interested will never get to play with one but it seems there’s not much material out there.
The console is open source, and you can try a demo of it in your browser https://console-preview.oxide.computer/ https://github.com/oxidecomputer/console I also wrote up a blog post walking through me setting up a server by hand: https://steveklabnik.com/writing/using-the-oxide-console You can also use the API, there's a terraform provider, etc.
[0] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/hubris - fascinating little kernel
Who should be interested in this product? Does it make sense to compare this to AWS, Google Cloud or Azure?
I'm trying to make sense of what this is. I don't get what the unique selling point is. I understand that this is about server hosting. And from context I gather that this is about Rust. It seems that special/custom hardware is involved. And they advocate for buying instead of renting servers. But I can't figure out more than that. Who should be interested in this product? Does it make sense to compare this to AWS, G…
I'm trying to make sense of what this is. I don't get what the unique selling point is. I understand that this is about server hosting. And from context I gather that this is about Rust. It seems that special/custom hardware is involved. And they advocate for buying instead of renting servers. But I can't figure out more than that. Who should be interested in this product? Does it make sense to compare this to AWS, G…
Companies that run large on-prem workloads and want to have similar hardware/software to what the likes of Google, FB etc. have in their data centers
I'm trying to make sense of what this is. I don't get what the unique selling point is. I understand that this is about server hosting. And from context I gather that this is about Rust. It seems that special/custom hardware is involved. And they advocate for buying instead of renting servers. But I can't figure out more than that. Who should be interested in this product? Does it make sense to compare this to AWS, G…
edit: And it seems like it's aimed at companies that don't want to pay cloud margins, but don't (yet) have the expertise to set up a production-worthy Kubernetes (or similar) cluster from scratch. An opinionated appliance vs DIY approach.
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Companies that run large on-prem workloads and want to have similar hardware/software to what the likes of Google, FB etc. have in their data centers
Does that mean that Oxide sells computers that are optimized for on-premise cloud deployments?