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This level of integration surely won't come cheap, from what I recall of Server purchasing a target price of ~200-500k per rack would be expected on a TCO of ro
by lumost 5y ago
This level of integration surely won't come cheap, from what I recall of Server purchasing a target price of ~200-500k per rack would be expected on a TCO of roughly 2x the rack price over 3 years. (Assuming you are buying from Quanta/SuperMicro or other commodity integrator)
It's possible the prices are different now, but you would need customers looking to drop > 1 million dollars in CapEx for the management capabilities they are providing. Possibly non-cloud Fortune-500?
- riking 5y agoThe core customer profile appears to be aging startups that know how their software behaves and are currently way over 2k cores on AWS.
- benlivengood 5y agoStartups with no significant use of anything from AWS other than EC2+EBS with an existing well-tested storage migration procedure.
- dcolkitt 5y agoThat reminds me a lot of the Sun Microsystem mega servers from 20 years ago. Those were kind of the cure-all solutions to high scalability web services before Google et al. pioneered cloud-like services on commodity software.
- nickik 5y agoIts kind of like if you took those servers and put a cloud like software layer on top and made many of them work together.
- kraig 5y agoThey'd have to sell these at a significant loss to make up for the risk any company would have to take to build out a DC on first generation hardware from a startup.
- daddylongstroke 5y agoI mean, how many companies are building out DCs left and right these days? Not many. This will fit in nicely for brand new projects that require nothing more than a rack. Once a company puts something through the paces for 2-3 years, and the engineers managing it love it, then the slow migration from UCS (or Nutanix) to Oxide begins. This is usually how I've seen new hardware architectures introduced at mid and large size companies.