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How oxide cuts data center power consumption in half

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195 points tosh | 5 comments | 21 Nov 24 18:12 UTC | HN request time: 1.036s | source
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ZeroCool2u ◴[21 Nov 24 21:41 UTC] No.42208963[source]▶
If any Oxide staff are here, I'm just curious, is BlueSky a customer? Seems like it would fit well with their on-prem setup.
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mkeeter ◴[21 Nov 24 22:43 UTC] No.42209455[source]▶
Nope, but many of us (Oxide staff) are big fans of what Bluesky is doing!

One of the Bluesky team members posted about their requirements earlier this month, and why Oxide isn't a great fit for them at the moment:

https://bsky.app/profile/jaz.bsky.social/post/3laha2upw3k2z

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1. AceJohnny2 ◴[22 Nov 24 01:48 UTC] No.42210455[source]▶
> Also prices don't make sense for us.

Oof.

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2. tptacek ◴[22 Nov 24 22:25 UTC] No.42217861[source]▶
Why is that "oof"? They're using commodity servers today. Oxide does not offer commodity servers.
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3. AceJohnny2 ◴[23 Nov 24 04:45 UTC] No.42219256[source]▶
Just that it highlights the challenge that Oxide faces, that they're effectively offering a "luxury" product in a deeply commoditized space.
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4. tptacek ◴[23 Nov 24 05:01 UTC] No.42219291{3}[source]▶
That's true if you think the market is SaaS upstarts like Bluesky and maybe less true if you think of the market in terms of who buys hardware. I remember early on at Matasano working for a house account, a major US corp that isn't a household name, and being shocked 2 years in when I finally had to do something in their data center (a FCIP appliance assessment) and seeing how much they'd spent on it. Look at everyone who runs (and wishes they weren't) z/OS today, or Oracle. There's more of them than I think a lot of HN people think.
5. cplwankery ◴[23 Nov 24 07:48 UTC] No.42219720[source]▶
Good on 0x1d5 to bring back the era of expensive, proprietary hardware that everybody loved so much.