Reading all these comments- what if there was something completely open source, with no software licensing, that didn't require an immense team of talent, and leveraged hyperscaler class infrastructure for on-prem private cloud needs? Wouldn't that be the best of both worlds?
Raising tides to lift all boats is my mission. Innovator CTO-type, always in the trench with the customer, not making a faster horse.
Repatriation “off” public cloud is NOT good news for VMware. People are leaving VMware too. The past 20 years is in the past. People got gouged with public cloud and gouged with VMware. They are looking for a third option. Open source is about to have its day in the sun. H/t Robert Slovick
Kyle Risse
2mo
Yes! A lot of us are rooting for you!
Senior Director @ Salesforce | Application Security, IoT, IAM, Cloud Infrastructure, Messaging, XaaS, Data Systems
2moIt would indeed be the best of both worlds. Private cloud will be back. But not in the form it used to be whether it’s VCF, VxRail or any of the past incarnations of hyperconverged (but not hyperscale) infrastructure. Those were the first generation of engineered private cloud systems. They were packaged as engineered systems but not built as such with HW/SW co-design. They were still complex to operate in the real world; a lot of moving parts but in one box. Oxide is the iPhone of server racks. That’s purely from a systems point of view including ergonomics and aesthetics. But I’m not going to stretch that analogy any further into the cloud. If I were the betting type and had some spare cash, I would put money on Oxide becoming a thing in the private cloud space.