Oxide Unveils the World’s First Commercial Cloud Computer
Summary
Every enterprise today has financial, security, latency, and reliability needs that require them to own their computing infrastructure and the rental-only model has denied them modern cloud capabilities for these use cases. Co-founders Steve Tuck and Bryan Cantrill, armed with decades of cloud infrastructure experience at Dell, Sun Microsystems, and Joyent, assembled a band of 60 veteran technologists skilled in software, mechanical, electrical, and industrial engineering to take on this challenge and transform the most fundamental corner of computing.After years of building cloud infrastructure, we knew firsthand the pain of on-premises deployments, and we knew that addressing these pain points would require taking on the entire problem of the rack-scale computer hardware and software, said Bryan Cantrill, CTO and co-founder of Oxide. While we were not the only ones to see this, many believed that the problem was too daunting for a new company: despite the large market, the conventional wisdom was that one simply couldnt find the investors and technologists necessary to fund, design, and build it. The Oxide team meticulously rethought and re-tooled every single layer, node, and resource of the entire technology stack, from deep within hardware to the software interfaces. The net result is that Oxide customers can go from rack install to developer availability in a matter of hours, compared to weeks or months.Oxide empowers developers to build, run, and operate any application with enhanced security, latency, and control, and frees enterprises to up-level IT operations and accelerate strategic initiatives.