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Part of the appeal of the cloud over on-premise is that on-premise is not just expensive, but hard: oxide’s product isn’t just on-premise hardware, it’s on-prem
by oldtownroad 3y ago
Part of the appeal of the cloud over on-premise is that on-premise is not just expensive, but hard: oxide’s product isn’t just on-premise hardware, it’s on-premise hardware _that is easy_*. If on-premise was just expensive, it would be so much more appealing — because the cloud is expensive too!
Most every software engineer has worked in an org where spending six figures per month on AWS or GCP is totally normal and acceptable because the alternative, buying hardware, is this awful scary unknown that could be cheaper but could also blow the entire company up. If oxide can solve that, suddenly on-premise becomes much more attractive.
Yes, people are hooked on the cloud, but not because of data transfer… because it’s easy.
* well, the first few deployments might not be easy but that’s true of anything new.
- thinkmassive 3y ago100% agree with you Also, what this person said :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36552245 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36552245
- alephnerd 3y agoNot OP, but what differentiates Oxide from VMWare or Dell? I can get pretty competitive quotes from both if I wanted to build my own DC, or if had much more niche HPC requirements I could go with NVIDIA.
- rcxdude 3y agotop-to-bottom integration and fully open-source, basically. That's a pretty good value proposition, though it does depend on how much premium you pay for it.
- steveklabnik 3y agoI hate to link this comment agin in this thread, but I wrote a comment about almost exactly this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30678324 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30678324
- rapsey 3y agoThe enterprises running VMWare I know run completely shit hardware and getting outrageously fleeced on any updates they want to do.
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