FAQ Friday

And again, it kind of depends on what your impression is of the term HCI. If the term hyperconverged makes your eye start to twitch and you have bad memories of deploying very expensive, highly proprietary systems that don’t work terribly well then no, no, no, we’re definitely not hyperconverged! I don’t know what you’re talking about!

If on the other hand, you’ve never heard of that term and it seems like a pretty good term for something that has storage and compute and networking associated with it then, then sure, we’re hyperconverged. What we are is on-premises elastic infrastructure that includes everything you need in this Oxide rack to deploy your infrastructure. This thing shows up, you plug it in, you connect it to networking, you get a BGP session up and running, and you can go provision your infrastructure without having to talk to anything else. If that’s hyperconverged for you and that term hyperconverged does not make your eye twitch, then yeah, we’re hyperconverged. If not? On-premises elastic infrastructure. And if you have deployed hyperconverged infrastructure, there actually is a really important difference here. There’s a way in which we are even more converged than hyperconverged because we actually can include the networking switch, and actually two of them are included in the Oxide rack.

I don’t know what is more hyper than hyper, but that’s how converged we are, that we actually have the networking switch and the management of that networking switch is incorporated in the management software for the Oxide rack. So what is our network switch operating system? We deliver that as part of the Oxide rack.

So if you’ve deployed hyperconverged, we are even more converged than hyperconverged!

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