alt Hacker News(VP of Eng here) I filled out their sales form last year and never heard from them. We're currently spending $900k/year on AWS, and they didn't even acknowledge my request. crazy stuff.
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We had the opposite experience. We contacted them through their form this year and they were happy to discuss with us even when we communicated from the beginning we wouldn't be customer in the short to medium term and even for single rack systems.
we spend 2-2.5M a year I wouldn’t consider us their product scale yet.
My understanding is the full rack is about $1.2M and smallest half rack is about $600k and this was before the RAM and other price hikes now.
You are still going to have some residual cloud workloads(so all AWS won’t migrate ) and HA and DR regions etc plus the maintenance and incidentals (power , connectivity ).
I don’t expect anyone less than 5M spends and high base loads is a good fit for their offering.
Hit me up @oxidecomputer.com
If your CIO is not ideologically averse on paying people instead of paying jeff bezos, you can save money even buying dell.
tbf they are probably looking for customers with cloud spend ending in 'm'
Logical.
They probably will be aquihired by someone like Broadcom.
Well that isn't that much. $1M / month feels more like it.
Say you are spending $1M. Round up. Or even 0.9M. Their sales might only return inquiries with cloud costs ending in M.
They work with HFT/quant firms. Look at some of their former engineers who are now at matX.
Intel/Barefoot Tofino 2, VHDL/SystemVerilog, FPGA, QSFP28 (100GbE networking), P4 programming.
Their buyers don’t have customer stories. They don’t sell to SaaS companies.