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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 mcmcmc »

drakenot wrote: post #24
voidUpdate wrote: post #18

I'm confused what their product is... "The cloud you own"? Isn't that just... a server? Sure, it looks like a very nice server, but is there anything special about it apart from that?

I think its the end-to-end, integrated nature of it. API driven, have "elastic resources", etc, etc. Rather than bolting together various solutions you get to have a "Cloud-like" stack in your own datacenter.

Yep, it’s basically slick hyperconverged infrastructure that you can buy a rack at a time without a subscription license.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by ubercore »

embedding-shape wrote: post #37
gclawes wrote: post #2

If I could use the Oxide stack in a homelab form factor, I would be so happy...

Yeah, a small-scale rack for home would be great to replace the beowulf cluster me and others are still stuck with. I'd probably pay a premium for it, given what I can tell from their product material.

If they can scale down the hardware to something close to homelab-ish in price, would be great marketing and way to build expertise to have their big boy solution promoted at workplaces. Probably not a priority at their stage though.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by neom »

colesantiago wrote: post #66
Aurornis wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There’s nothing confusing about it. Hardware businesses require a lot of capital to build the hardware.

I don't see Hetzner getting into bed with VCs and raising $100M or $200M? How long until Oxide needs $2BN, $4BN or $8BN from VCs, further getting owned by them?

K, well I was on the first/founding team of digitalocean and owned strategy there from zero to just before IPO, we took a bunch of venture, heck if you'd seen our covenants in our lease lines, they made our venture debt look like kittens, yet we IPO'd, and I don't think very many in the digitalocean story are particularly unhappy? VCs do not try to "own companies" they try to exit businesses at a gain.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by gedy »

999900000999 wrote: post #67
shimman wrote: post #7

Oxide is the only company where I check the careers page hoping that they have a position which I can apply to. Happy to see their success. Especially so if you've been following their journey through their podcasts (easily the best tech podcast out there if you care about your craft; no filler, all killer).

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…

> Concerns that should have been handled in the initial call, somehow get pushed back till after I've wasted monumental amount of time.

Honestly these "reasons" they give are usually BS excuses when it basically amounts to they don't like your personality or looks.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by KenoFischer »

Congratulations to the Oxide team! It's a tough market out there :)! I'm still personally frustrated that I don't get to play with the hardware (too expensive for our internal server needs; not the right fit for our datacenter partners/customers), but I'm excited to see that they're successful and hopefully they'll come around to my use case eventually :). In the meantime, I appreciate that they're building largely in the open - every once in a while I'll glance at their issue tracker for light bedtime reading. Just recently we had some fun internally throwing our controls software at their thermal loop as a usage example - it's often hard to find compelling real-world systems to use as openly sharable examples (of course we have interesting customer problems, but that's all NDA'd), so having companies build real stuff in the open is fantastic. Great company, wish them the best.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by bmitch3020 »

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.

Rack scale computing, on both the software and hardware side. That means building custom network switching, power management, etc, in a turn key solution that drops in to a customer's data center. Unbox it, plugin a few connections, make a few configuration settings, and start deploying. It's the on-prem response to the cloud for companies running things at scale.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by webdevver »

grim_io wrote: post #77
999900000999 wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

You're not changing the world either way, you would just be working for a more demanding guy. Fuck em.

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Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by zozbot234 »

Aurornis wrote: post #71
db48x wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 lb…

Unfortunately you have to read further down in the specs to see the actual hardware details. They’re on older generation hardware, so going by cores and RAM alone isn’t enough to tell you about the speed of those cores and the DDR4 RAM. Hopefully raising money helps them iterate faster on their hardware so they’re not so far behind.

DDR4 is the right choice in this day and age, if they had gone with DDR5 it would have doubled the cost for the whole rack.

Looking forward to the discounted DDR3 Opteron-based option.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by ilogik »

embedding-shape wrote: post #32
ilogik wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

+1 for the podcast. I would try to apply but as far as I know they require 4 hours overlap with PST which excludes Europe

> 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?

If I were in college, that would make sense, but I like to spend evenings with my family.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by jabart »

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?

From the podcasts they talk a little about their clients. It's people who want something like AWS Outpost but fully disconnected and independent from any cloud and running 100% local.
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