Comment by idontwantthis

10 hours ago

What is their product exactly? It’s a server that is cheaper for some reason?

B2B/Enterprise datacenter software. Alternative to VMware and the likes. None of their core products are open to the average Joe afaik. There was a post about that sometime back on here.

  • Enterprise software and hardware, built from the ground up. Definitely not just a VMware alternative, though the end product is virtual instances of course.

    We're building racks over here! And all our software is open source.

  • Its a bit strange thing to say, their software is QUITE LITERALLY OPEN TO EVERYBODY. Its literally all Open Source.

    Their product is a bunch of servers in a rack designed to run that open source software.

    But you can run most of their software yourself.

Username checks out.

  • I’m serious I can’t tell what it is. Something with all the benefits of on prem and cloud without the costs of either.

    • Change "something" to "a computer" and you got it!

      It's a big ass computer (technically many computers in a rack) that gives you a cloud provider style API to manage on-premises infrastructure. Plug it in, connect to the web console or API, and provision yourself some sweet sweet virtual machines, disks, and VPCs.

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It's the full hardware/firmware stack up to and including VM hypervisor. A complete rack solution, but it's the tailored firmware and integrated hypervisor, networking that sets it apart from another OEM that sells you a full rack solution. Afaik.