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> but hyberscalers that need to fill whole datacenters with servers. I strongly doubt this is aimed at Amazon, Google, or Microsoft (hyperscalers). They all
by tw04 5y ago
> but hyberscalers that need to fill whole datacenters with servers.
I strongly doubt this is aimed at Amazon, Google, or Microsoft (hyperscalers). They all already have their own highly customized hardware and firmware. If that is their target I wish them luck. There’s no margin and a ton of competition in that space and as long as they’ve been working on this that feels like a pretty poor gamble.
What I believe this is actually targeting is small enterprise and up. A company that has dozens to thousands of servers. They’re willing to pay a premium for an easier go to market.
- znpy 5y ago> I strongly doubt this is aimed at Amazon, Google, or Microsoft (hyperscalers). Indeed, that is not aimed at those hyperscalers.
- ksec 5y agoThey are pretty much the "only" hyperscalers. The only two you could add is possibly Alibaba and Tencent Cloud.
- znpy 5y agoJoyent?
- joshgavant 5y agohttps://www.joyent.com/press/samsung-to-acquire-joyent https://www.joyent.com/press/samsung-to-acquire-joyent
- mlindner 5y agoWhich was a result of Joyent being unable to scale like the hyperscalers because there was no 3rd party that could make the hardware as well as the hyperscalers. That's what Oxide is for, to fix what Joyent was unable to do, to enable others to become hyperscalers.
- tw04 5y agoI think IBM (softlayer), hetzner, and ovh would disagree. They may not have the breadth of services but they measure their scale in datacenters, not servers.
- ksec 5y agoThey are certainly large with their own Datacenter, along with Oracle which is growing fast. But they are not HyperScalers. At least not by first and common analytical definition of it. And no one in the same industry, ( Linode or DO ) would think of Softlayer and Hetzner and OVH are hyper scalers. The three names combined wouldn't be equal to Azure or GCP scale. Even TecentCloud and Alibaba are relatively new addition to the term once people discovered their scale. Although generally speaking Hyperscaler used by industry analyst still dont include these two when they use the term.
- p_l 5y agoThere's a big "turnkey rack" market, where multiple servers might be delivered as complete racks and are supposed to be already wired up and everything. All ranges of business except very small turn up in those purchases.