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Comment on: Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D)
Managing a single commodity device is pretty simple. Could even be a shell script with a few IPMI commands.Managing 100s of devices from a mix of vendors is possible becomes itself a massive ball of crap to stick all the pieces together.Then add firmware management because now there is a plethora of firmware updates to worry about.And then dealing with networking discovery & orchestration for such setups is an added horror few even try to visualize.Then abstract all these differences away so one can provision two different vendor’s servers connected to two different vendor’s managed switc