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Oxide Computer is a hardware startup looking to deliver private cloud computing at the rack level. The team at Oxide wrote their own custom firmware, networking stack, and management software for their private cloud solution. The hardware uses whitebox components and the whole solution ships as one or more pre-configured racks.
By using rack-level design, the Oxide team was able to remove the need for intra-rack cabling. The racks themselves feature bus bars for power and networking, and a sled-type server architecture reminiscent of what blade chassis were meant to do. Simply slide in a compute-sled and you have power, networking, and storage connected.
Internally, they are using several Intel components, which may help explain Intel’s participation in the Series A round that just closed. The round also coincides with the first set of customers receiving their Oxide Cloud Computer racks. The team behind Oxide Computer is pretty rad, and they used Rust to program virtually everything, so I’d keep an eye on them to see how their all-in-one model develops with this new infusion of cash.