One problem facing on-prem orgs today is the sad state of commodity server hardware; poor quality control, buggy firmware (and vendors who won’t help), BMCs with massive attack surfaces (that have already claimed one VPN provider), and commodity network switches that can push lots of packets but aren’t terribly flexible for people who are pushing more challenging payloads around their DC (video, etc).
"Hyperscalers" like Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and Google build their own hardware and are able to avoid many of these problems. Unfortunately, none of this stuff is available off the shelf to mere mortals.
There’s a startup trying to fix this problem (Oxide) which I think is launching their racks next year. Will be interesting to see what happens.
"Hyperscalers" like Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and Google build their own hardware and are able to avoid many of these problems. Unfortunately, none of this stuff is available off the shelf to mere mortals.
There’s a startup trying to fix this problem (Oxide) which I think is launching their racks next year. Will be interesting to see what happens.