FAQ Friday

Oxide provides on-premises cloud computing that’s only achievable through hardware and software co-design.

On the hardware side, Oxide is a computer.

It’s not a personal laptop that you use to develop. It’s also not a 1U or 2U server. It’s an entire rack-size computer that you’re meant to put in your data center or your colocation facility. All the Oxide hardware is designed in-house and assembled in the United States. Moving from that 1U or 2U design up to a rack-size design allows us to throw away some of the old constraints and become more efficient with our power and more dense with our compute.

The cloud provider hyperscalers have had access to hardware like this for a while, and they’ve packaged it up and sold it back to us as a public cloud that you can only ever rent from and never own. With Oxide, you can own your on-premises cloud computing.

However, the hardware is just one side to what we offer at Oxide.

We also offer software. We actually have a lot of software at Oxide. We have a control plane that allows you to connect one or more Oxide racks and manage their compute, their storage, and their networking behind a cloud-provider-style API. We write a lot of software at Oxide from the firmware layer to the operating system layer all the way up to the cloud control plane layer, and it’s primarily written in Rust and is open-source to provide you with transparency and confidence you need to run your business’s enterprise workloads.

If this interests you, what do you do from here? Well, if this aligns with your enterprise’s on-premises cloud computing vision, let us know. We have an Oxide rack deployed in a colocation center that we slice up into different tenants and allow you to evaluate Oxide and see if it’s right for your business.