On: The Cloud Computer

[LoganDark]

They're selling a rack that hosts an entire virtual cloud. Nobody has done that yet. There have been servers with hypervisors preinstalled, but nothing like this.

[alberth → LoganDark]

Oracle, AWS & Azure all have "Cloud at Customer" offerings.

And these offerings have existed for years.

And from hardware manufacturers, Dell/VCE, Nutanix, and more "hyper-converged" infra has existed.

Note: I'm not being a hater. I'm just genuinely confused.

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https://www.oracle.com/cloud/cloud-at-customer/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-stack

https://aws.amazon.com/outposts/

[LoganDark → alberth]

> Oracle, AWS & Azure all have "Cloud at Customer" offerings.

AFAIK they manage it for you, as if you're just a colo. Whereas oxide just hands the entire rack + software over, but with no self install of any software stacks required (such as with azure)

[CyberDildonics → LoganDark]

This is literally what people would do long before 'the cloud' was ever a buzzword.

[LoganDark → CyberDildonics]

Yeah because oxide.computer isn't someone else's machine anymore. It's yours.

That's literally why it's so exciting lol

[CyberDildonics → LoganDark]

Why would it be exciting for a company to be literally doing what lots of companies have been doing for literally 25 years?

[LoganDark → CyberDildonics]

because they do it better...?

[CyberDildonics → LoganDark]

Do what better? Rent out computers connected to the internet? How are they doing it better?

[reffaelwallen → alberth]

maybe its about allowing you to create your own cloud, not using a third party vendor's software? its not a computer you hook up to a cloud, it is its own cloud? i only know about aws outpost tho, so I might be wrong

[alberth → reffaelwallen]

> "not using a third party vendor's software"

Wouldn't you still be using 3rd party vendor software, it'd be Oxide software now?