# Oxide Computer Company formed to build integrated hardware and software for on-premises infrastructure

DevFeed: [Oxide Computer Company formed to build integrated hardware and software for on-premises infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/born-in-a-garage-35151.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/born-in-a-garage/>)

Published: 2019-12-02T13:09:26Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Jessie Frazelle](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/jessie-frazelle.md>)

Topics: [Hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hardware.md>), [Software](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software.md>), [Architecture & Design](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/architecture-design.md>), [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-infrastructure.md>)

Tags: [docker](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/docker.md>), [environment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/environment.md>), [go](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/go.md>), [hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hardware.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kubernetes.md>), [latency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/latency.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>)

## AI overview

The article announces the formation of Oxide Computer Company by Steve Tuck, Bryan Cantrill, and the author. The company aims to address the challenges of running infrastructure on premises by integrating hardware and software, with stated goals including better power distribution, density, and energy efficiency.

## Source excerpt

WE STARTED A COMPUTER COMPANY!! You have no idea how long I've been waiting to say that! I guess some context would help... Steve Tuck, Bryan Cantrill, and I officially started the Oxide Computer Company. Since then, we've been working on closing up fundraising, getting an awesome office, and hiring! You are probably thinking "a computer company? that's outrageous!".. well it is and it isn't. Over the last year, I had the opportunity to spend a lot of time talking with folks who are currently running workloads on premises. The consensus from all my conversations has been that everyone setting up infrastructure themselves is in a great deal of pain and they have been largely neglected by any existing vendor. All these folks have very good reasons for running on premises that include security, strategic reasons like latency, specialized workloads, or the reality that the unit economics of running at their scale in the cloud are unsustainable. I've had the privilege of working on projects in my career that have had a positive impact on a lot of people - from Docker, to the Go programming language, to Kubernetes. Over the course of talking to folks, I soon realized that working on solving the pain for those running on premises would have a huge amount of impact. Hyperscalers like Facebook, Google, and Microsoft have what I like to call "infrastructure privilege" since they long ago decided they could build their own hardware and software to fulfill their needs better than commodity vendors. We are working to bring that same infrastructure privilege to everyone else! This leads to better integration between the hardware and software stacks, better power distribution, and better density. It's even better for the environment due to the energy consumption wins! I can't think of a better problem space and group of folks to work with to build a company. I've known both Bryan and Steve from the container conference circuit and couldn't pass up an opportunity to work with both of