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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 »

ilogik wrote: post #89
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?

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

You just need to find the right family it sounds like ;) We both have the same sleeping schedule so works out for us, and we hang out more than ever. But YMMV.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by 9dev »

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.

Prices start around 800k last time I heard, I don't know if that fits within what you consider a premium or not :-)

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by raskelll »

akshitgaur2005 wrote: post #3

I just came to know about Oxide the other day, and god damn if it is not a dream workplace! High salary, flat structure, a large open-source presence, and maybe much more! Their blogs are really good too. I am an undergraduate right now and looking at the people working there, it doesn't seem likely they would hire a fresh grad, I think I have found the yardstick I am going to measure myself by going forward, "Am I s…

I always felt the same every since I learnt about the company. Can't think of a more rewarding place to work at.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by FuriouslyAdrift »

bri3d wrote: post #57
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 tha…

Microsoft and Nutanix have had a hyperconverged architecture for over a decade. Oxide is mostly an alternative to Nutanix or other soup-to-nuts private clouds.

Oxide is a really nice platform. I keep trying to manipulate things at work to justify the buy in (I really want to play wiht their stuff), but they aren't going for it.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by FuriouslyAdrift »

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?

More like Nutanix, Xen, IBM, Kubernetes... private cloud, colo, on-premise... etc. There's a ton of stuff (I'd bet the majority) of compute workload in business that is local/colo and not cloud.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by jcgrillo »

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?

They state:

> ...it's not uncommon for us to be asked directly: "How do I know you won’t be bought?"

Raising ~infinite runway from investors who are already known quantities signals that you can safely buy into their product knowing they're not getting snapped up by $megacorp anytime soon. That's where the faster growth comes from--customers who feel secure in the knowledge that the company isn't going anywhere.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by ryukoposting »

gclawes wrote: post #2

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

I was thinking this, too. Here's an even crazier thought: don't even make it rack mount. Make it NUC-sized. Two PB&Js stacked on top of each other, that's the form factor. EC2 except it lives under the couch.
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