Building and operating private infrastructure is complex. That’s one of the main reasons public cloud is the default for most organizations. However, for those that need it, Oxide offers an alternative to assembling and integrating hardware and software from scratch. It provides prebuilt racks with compute, networking and storage, running fully integrated system software. Teams can manage resources through Oxide’s IaaS APIs using Terraform and other automation tools — what Oxide calls on-premises elastic infrastructure.
Dell and VMware’s VxRail, Nutanix and HPE SimpliVity also provide hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) solutions, but what distinguishes Oxide is its purpose-built approach. It designs the entire stack — from circuit boards and power supplies to firmware — instead of assembling components from different vendors. Oxide has also developed and open-sourced Hubris, a lightweight, memory-protected, message-passing kernel written in Rust for embedded systems, along with other Rust-based infrastructure projects. We also appreciate that Oxide sells their equipment and software without license fees.
