I have a lot of experience with hyper-converged infrastructure. "Miles ahead" how? Oxide's control plane barely competes on basic functionality that OpenStack had 13 years ago, let alone VMware which is miles ahead of OpenStack. The hope is that the simplicity in hardware and network/storage/compute architecture will drive dividends as they improve their control plane software.

I don't discount that it's a great achievement towards simplicity in the racking approach for rack-scale use cases (having lived through Dell VxRack's nonsense), but let's not kid ourselves that any DevOps team could manage this - do they understand BGP peering? Three phase power requirements? Cooling? ZFS? How about basic maintenance migrations ala Vmotion or DRS? (kidding! they can't do it)

If you don't think Oxide will require an ops team, you may be wish projecting.

This point is understated. One of the main reasons cloud is so attractive to executives is the smaller devops footprint compared to a traditional on-premise deployment.

A solution as lightweight on operations as Oxide challenges this premise at its core and assuming the capex is not outrageously high, it might suddenly get very attractive.

It may be a limited market. You need to be large enough for a private cloud to make sense, but above a certain size it also should be a no-brainer to have a competent ops team making you less dependent on a singular infrastructure provider.

> This honestly looks simple enough that a developer/DevOps team could manage it. With the other 'hyperconverged' infrastructure offerings you will still need a dedicated team of trained ops professionals to manage it.

That seems like the best explanation of the value here I've heard so far! I could definitely see a number of SMBs whose use cases are expensive in AWS/etc and would be a good fit for a few racks in a datacenter, but who don't want the cost of a team to manage them. If this significantly lowers the skill threshold necessary to run servers in a datacenter, I could see that being a huge value prop.

I hate all the big clouds and never use them. Yet it was hard to me to get their selling point, I had to read like for 2 minutes