I read it. Sounds like hardware parts for rackmount servers are getting offered for sale to the general public. That's old hat, too - Dell has been offering those since before 2010, and even these days, they can be easily sourced from Amazon, brand-new. Expensive, yeah. Not everything is quite as compatible with each other as consumer-grade aftermarket PC components - yeah, there's that, too. But old hat, it's been there LONG before those blogger clowns.Bullet point #2 addresses your question.
It's actually quite boring. The machines they're building are pretty much run of the mill x86 based servers with medium amount of memory and average networking. They give them a handful U.2 disk slots, which is common in storage appliances (although they don't provide a solution for disk-based storage). Their mechanical mounting seems to be very close to normal 19" rackmount or OpenCompute form factor; the only unusual thing are blind mating power and network, so you don't need to manually plug in connectors when you add or remove a server. Their per-rack switches and power supplies, while bespoke and custom-built, have completely normal performance characteristics. In a nutshell, they're selling a standard 19" rack with standard half-width 2U rackmount servers and the shared power/network infrastructure. One could buy effectively the same thing by getting a standard 19" rack from a cabling supply house, a big order of SuperMicro servers, and a Cisco or Juniper switch.Looks super cool (and expensive).
A few screenshots down it says "Jan 6 2022", at which point only 12.2 and 13.0 existed, so I guess that could be the reason.FreeBSD 12,2? Is that really what they offer todsy?
Unsurprising... ? For a small-time shop, the hardware components (that you kind of have to have if you want to offer your own cloud services, rather than rent) are prohibitively expensive. And, the stuff a small shop can afford - it just doesn't have the specs to scale appropriately. This is why small shops rent. This is why places like Github and Amazon EC3 exist in the first place - they have the hardware and capacity that they can rent out to the small guys.It is amazing to see how many people post on this thread that did not read the announcement. Although I would agree that this is not completely new, there have been some offers in the private (on prem) cloud segment before. It appears (also looking at some posters here) that private cloud is still not well understood.
Wow, uninformed joking??? and this sheer stupidity netted them $44 million USD??? ?
Now that's a real gem by drhowarddrfine ...
What happened to Amazon EC3? or Google, for that matter? ? Those guys already offer commercial cloud that's generally available for rent, since before 2020, and now this moronic startup bilked investors of $44,000,000 claiming to be the first on the scene??? ? What about Microsoft Azure, another player in the arena???
You start by figuring out where you can contact them to rent. Then talk to whoever is doing the renting, and ask THEM about building an on-premise Amazon or Google datacenter. You'll end up with a quote to the tune of at least $10 million USD. ?Where can I get an on-prem Amazon or Google system?
Oxide reimagines private cloud as... a 2,500-pound blade server? LLNL as a customer, not bad for "this moronic startup".I’m curious what sort of customers you have.
Now it's starting to make sense... so Oxide's selling point is this (as per that theregister.com article):Oxide reimagines private cloud as... a 2,500-pound blade server? LLNL as a customer, not bad for "this moronic startup".
Must have been Shopify's showcasing.
integrated backplane that provides not just power but 12.8Tbps of switching capacity to boot
integrated backplane
hardware component to commercial/private market. To showcase its potential, we built this rack server that is cheaper and faster than stuff that Lawrence Livemore currently has. This thing can run www/nextcloud and be viable commercially, or it can do compute tasks for Lawrence Livemore, and be competitive".