Hey, it’s Bryan from Oxide. I’m back with another FAQ Friday. A frequently asked question that we get often in hushed tones while taking us aside is:
Hey, I really like the Oxide rack, but isn’t this just private cloud?
And the answer is, yeah, it is actually private cloud, it is on-premises elastic infrastructure.
Why don’t we use the term private cloud? Because the term itself got pretty sullied. So about a decade ago there was a real trend towards private cloud at named as such, but it was a kit car disaster for the operators trying to deploy it. There were all sorts of different components that they, themselves were responsible for integrating, and when the whole thing didn’t work, it was the operator who bore responsibility for that; everyone pointing fingers at everybody else.
So the whole idea of private cloud had its own kind of hype curve and really crashed through the earth. So we avoid the term private cloud because of the stigma associated with it. That said, it is on-premises elastic infrastructure. It really is private cloud. We just avoid that term, and for that you can kind of blame the industry.
But yeah, if you wanna think about a private cloud, if you don’t have a stigma associated with the term private cloud, then for sure it’s private cloud. If you’ve got very dark memories of deploying private cloud, then no, no, no. It’s not private cloud. Who told you that? It’s on-premises elastic infrastructure. Thanks and see you next time.