What Oxide Computer Company does

Oxide Computer Company, founded in 2019 and headquartered in Emeryville, California, designs and sells the Oxide Cloud Computer — a rack-scale, vertically integrated on-premises computing platform that combines custom compute sleds, network switches, storage, and control plane into a single system managed through one API. The platform's 2nd Gen compute sleds use 1× AMD EPYC 9005 (Zen 5/Turin) processors with 12-channel DDR5-6400 memory and 10× NVMe bays; networking is built on two Intel Tofino 2-based sidecar switches with P4-programmable OPTE and a blind-mated backplane; storage runs OpenZFS with triple-mirror data protection; and the entire software stack (Omicron control plane, Nexus, Hubris OS on bhyve/Propolis) is written in Rust and open-sourced on GitHub. Hardware root of trust, NDAA/BAA/TAA compliance, and a 2-hour unbox-to-provisioning experience differentiate the system from traditional 8-vendor on-prem stacks and from public cloud.

The company sells the Oxide Cloud Computer as a one-time hardware purchase with all software included — no subscriptions, per-core licensing, or egress fees — supported by direct enterprise field sales, a self-serve remote-access trial silo, and an emerging channel/reseller motion. Target customers include Fortune 1000 enterprises seeking cloud repatriation or VMware replacement, U.S. federal agencies and national labs requiring NDAA-compliant sovereign infrastructure, financial-services firms with low-latency requirements, AI/ML and data-engineering teams, HPC and life-sciences research facilities, and technology/gaming platforms. Named customers include Switch, Stoke Space, Jump Trading, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Idaho National Laboratory, Los Alamos, and Sandia.

Oxide has raised approximately $378 million across four funding rounds, with a $200M Series C in February 2026 led by US Innovative Technology Fund (Thomas Tull) with Eclipse, Riot Ventures, and Jane Street, following a $100M Series B in July 2025 and a $44M Series A in October 2023. Strategic investors include In-Q-Tel for U.S. national-security workloads. The company has publicly stated it intends to remain independent and is not positioning itself as an acquisition target.

Name

Oxide Computer Company

Legal name

Oxide Computer Company

Website

https://oxide.computer

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Oxide Computer Company, founded in 2019 in Emeryville, California, sells the Oxide Cloud Computer — a rack-scale, vertically integrated on-premises platform combining custom compute, networking, storage, and Rust-based control plane behind one API — primarily to Fortune 1000 enterprises, U.S. federal and national-lab buyers, and financial-services firms via one-time hardware purchase plus support services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

On-premises cloud infrastructure hardware

NAICS

Computer and Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing (33411)

SIC

Electronic Computers (3571)

akta.pro primary industry

Rack & Tower Servers (General-Purpose x86/ARM) (HDACABAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Hyperconverged & Software-Defined Storage Appliances (HCI/SDS Hardware) (HDACACAJ)

Keywords

• On-premises cloud infrastructure
• Rack-scale compute systems
• Integrated cloud hardware
• Data center hardware
• Cloud repatriation platforms

Headquarters

HQ city

Emeryville

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Hardware (rack) sales — one-time purchase: Customers buy the Oxide rack outright as a one-time capital purchase. All system software (control plane, host OS, storage, networking) is included with no separate licensing, subscriptions, or per-core fees. Pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed; cloud-like APIs and self-service provisioning are included at no additional cost.
2. Enterprise support, services and customer success: Field technical delivery, solutions architecture, and ongoing support engineering (positions in APAC/EMEA/US Pacific) imply a professional services / managed services layer around the hardware sale, including expert assessments and "enterprise-grade support."

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion5 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels11 records

Core offering

Oxide designs, manufactures, and sells the Oxide Cloud Computer, a vertically integrated rack-scale on-premises platform that combines custom compute sleds (AMD EPYC 9005 / Zen 5), Intel Tofino 2-based P4-programmable switches, OpenZFS triple-mirror block storage, a custom DC bus-bar power shelf, and a Rust-written control plane (Omicron/Nexus) and host OS (Hubris/Propolis) into a single purchased rack delivered with all software included and no per-core or subscription fees.

Product overview

Oxide Computer Company sells a single unified product — the Oxide Cloud Computer — as a vertically integrated, rack-scale on-premises system that combines compute, storage, and networking behind one API. The platform is exposed through three core sub-products: Oxide Compute, which delivers on-demand virtual machines and bare-metal instances (with native Kubernetes); Oxide Storage, a ZFS-powered block-storage service with snapshots, replication, and end-to-end checksums; and Oxide Networking, which provides VPCs, IP pools, and P4-programmable high-speed fabric. All three are managed through the Oxide Web Console and the Oxide API & CLI, with first-party SDKs in Rust, TypeScript, and Go, and integrations with Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi, Packer, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Argo CD, Docker, Slurm, Flux, Jupyter, Spark, Kafka, Airflow, Ray, Dask, XGBoost, SAML, and LDAP. Oxide also packages these capabilities into vertical solutions for VMware replacement, hybrid cloud, public sector, finance, sovereign cloud, HPC, AI, CI/CD, life sciences, and technology / gaming workloads.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Oxide Cloud Computer: The company's flagship rack-scale integrated system combining purpose-built hardware with open-source software for on-premises cloud computing.

Products and services

• Oxide Cloud Computer Rack-scale, on-premises integrated system combining compute, storage, and networking in a single platform managed through one API; positioned as an alternative to public-cloud VPCs with on-demand instance provisioning, built-in block storage, VPC networking, and native Kubernetes support. Sold as a one-time rack purchase with all software included and no separate licensing, subscription, or per-core fees.
• Oxide Compute On-demand virtual machines and bare-metal instances provisioned from sled resources via the Oxide API; supports bring-your-own hypervisor and runs Kubernetes natively, with allocation via quotas, intended to deliver cloud-like elasticity on the on-premises rack.
• Oxide Storage ZFS-powered block-storage service with snapshots, clones, replication, and end-to-end checksums; supports NVMe SSDs in the sled tier and PCIe-attached pooled storage at the rack scale, exposed through the unified Oxide API for use by instances and external systems.
• Oxide Networking VPCs, subnets, IP pools, and high-speed, low-latency P4-programmable switching between sleds; designed to deliver consistent east-west and north-south performance for tenant workloads and exposed as a programmable layer through the Oxide API.
• Oxide Web Console Browser-based management interface for the Oxide Cloud Computer; provides a unified view for managing projects, instances, disks, IP pools, VPCs, users, and access, complementing the Oxide API and CLI.
• Oxide API and CLI REST API and CLI that exposes every resource of the cloud computer — instances, disks, VPCs, projects, users, and sled inventory — for automation and integration; the primary control plane for the platform, paired with first-party Rust, TypeScript, and Go SDKs plus Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi, and Packer integrations.
• Second-Generation Oxide Cloud Computer Platform (AMD Zen 5 EPYC, DDR5) Second-generation rack-scale platform built on AMD EPYC 9005 Series (Zen 5 / Turin) processors with up to 192 cores per sled, 12-channel DDR5-6400 memory, and 10 NVMe Gen 4 bays; raises the rack to up to 4,608 physical cores, 36 TiB DRAM, and 1.7 PiB of NVMe block storage. Generally available to customers as the current production Oxide Cloud Computer offering.

Quantifiable outcome

• ~55% less total power consumption vs. legacy on-prem
• +8 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments9 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration28 records

Feature9 records

Partnerships

27 partnerships are on record, tiered core technology partner, supporting technology partner, core integration, supporting integration, core integration for hpc and flagship public-sector partner.

• AMDcore technology partnerTechnology or IntegrationSupplies the EPYC 9005 Series (Zen 5 / Turin) processors that power Oxide's 2nd Gen compute sleds and the EPYC 7713 (Milan) for the 1st Gen. Featured on the Oxide ecosystem page and tied to the AMD+Redapt "Oxide Behind the Scenes" event.
• Intelcore technology partnerTechnology or IntegrationSupplies the Tofino 2 ASIC used in Oxide's custom rack-level network switch. Intel Capital is also an early investor. The Register reports Oxide is evaluating Xsight Labs' X2 as a possible Tofino successor.
• SUSEcore technology partnerTechnology or IntegrationFeatured on the Oxide ecosystem page; co-marketed customer case study (Switch) hosted on the Oxide contact page; SUSE Rancher integration is highlighted for Kubernetes workloads.
• Red Hatcore technology partnerTechnology or IntegrationEcosystem page partner; Oxide supports Red Hat OpenShift as one of the standard cloud-native tools integrated with the platform.
• Sidero Labscore technology partnerTechnology or IntegrationCo-marketed joint events such as "Oxide+Sidero Labs at KubeCon NA 2025" and a joint GitHub presence; Talos Linux + Omni is positioned as a Kubernetes stack for Oxide.
• Micronsupporting technology partnerTechnology or IntegrationListed as a technology partner on the Oxide ecosystem page; memory/storage supplier for Oxide compute sleds.
• SanDisksupporting technology partnerTechnology or IntegrationListed as a technology partner on the Oxide ecosystem page; NVMe storage supplier for the rack-scale system.
• Muratasupporting technology partnerTechnology or IntegrationFeatured on the Oxide ecosystem page; Murata power components and rack-level switches (rear and front views in Oxide press kit) are integral to Oxide's power and networking subsystems.
• Sanyo Denkisupporting technology partnerTechnology or IntegrationCustom fan supplier; Oxide partnered with Sanyo Denki to lower the minimum fan speed from 5K RPM to 2K RPM to support 12× cooling efficiency and quiet operation.
• Amphenolsupporting technology partnerTechnology or IntegrationListed on the Oxide ecosystem page; connector and cabling partner supporting the rack-scale blind-mated backplane.
• Samtecsupporting technology partnerTechnology or IntegrationListed on the Oxide ecosystem page; high-speed connector partner for the rack backplane.
• Chelsiosupporting technology partnerTechnology or IntegrationListed on the Oxide ecosystem page; networking component partner for the 100 GbE fabric.
• CoreSitesupporting technology partnerTechnology or IntegrationListed on the Oxide ecosystem page; data-center colocation partner for Oxide deployments.
• Benchmarksupporting technology partnerTechnology or IntegrationListed on the Oxide ecosystem page; manufacturing partner for Oxide hardware.
• TTMsupporting technology partnerTechnology or IntegrationListed on the Oxide ecosystem page; PCB manufacturing partner.
• Kubernetescore integrationTechnology or IntegrationFirst-class container orchestration integration; standard Kubernetes manifests run on Oxide, with multi-cluster deployment guidance (Talos/Omni) and dedicated FAQ entries on Kubernetes integrations.
• Terraformcore integrationTechnology or IntegrationOfficial Terraform provider and integration guide; one of the headline IaC tools for provisioning Oxide instances, disks, VPCs, and projects.
• OpenTofucore integrationTechnology or IntegrationOfficially supported open-source alternative to Terraform; listed on ecosystem and hybrid-cloud solution pages.
• Pulumisupporting integrationTechnology or IntegrationListed as a supported IaC integration; covered in the VMware and hybrid-cloud solution pages.
• Packersupporting integrationTechnology or IntegrationOfficial Packer integration for building and uploading custom machine images to Oxide.
• Rancher (SUSE)supporting integrationTechnology or IntegrationListed ecosystem partner; covered as one of the supported Kubernetes management tools on Oxide.
• Slurmcore integration for hpcTechnology or IntegrationFirst-class HPC scheduler integration; GitHub repo oxidecomputer/hpc-schedulers provides end-to-end Terraform and Ansible deployments for Slurm and Flux on Oxide.
• Flux (HPC scheduler)core integration for hpcTechnology or IntegrationSupported alongside Slurm; LLNL-developed Flux resource manager is a target integration for Oxide's HPC deployments, with reference deployments in oxidecomputer/hpc-schedulers.
• Grafanasupporting integrationTechnology or IntegrationListed ecosystem partner; supported for monitoring and observability on Oxide alongside Prometheus.
• OpenTelemetrysupporting integrationTechnology or IntegrationListed as a supported observability integration on the Oxide ecosystem page.
• Omni (Sidero Labs)supporting integrationTechnology or IntegrationListed as a technology integration; co-marketed via "Rack-scale Kubernetes with Oxide & Talos Linux + Omni" webinar.
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)flagship public-sector partnerStrategic or Co-development PartnerJointly announced an on-premises cloud-computing deployment inside LLNL's Livermore Computing HPC center (Nov 2024). Oxide will deliver self-service APIs, secure multi-tenancy, and integration with LLNL's Flux resource manager; researchers from Los Alamos and Sandia are also expected to participate. The collaboration is positioned as a national-security-grade deployment and proving ground.

Scale indicators17 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights7 records

Direct peers

• Nutanix: Nutanix sells hyperconverged infrastructure software (and increasingly its own NX hardware) that delivers on-prem cloud-like compute, storage, and virtualization for enterprise customers. It is the closest direct analog to Oxide's integrated on-prem cloud computer value proposition.
• Supermicro: Supermicro builds a broad range of rack-mount servers and storage appliances optimized for AI, HPC, and cloud workloads. Like Oxide, it sells custom-configured x86 rack systems targeting performance- and efficiency-conscious enterprise and HPC buyers.
• Penguin Solutions: Penguin Solutions (formerly Penguin Computing, part of SMART Global Holdings) designs and manufactures custom HPC, AI, and enterprise compute clusters — including the ICEraQ liquid-cooled rack platform — directly comparable to Oxide's custom rack-scale, HPC-focused deployments.

Broad incumbents

• Dell Technologies: Dell competes across the full enterprise stack Oxide targets — PowerEdge rack servers, VxRail hyperconverged appliances, PowerStore storage, and APEX consumption-based pricing. It is the largest incumbent in on-prem compute and the most direct large-scale competitor for Oxide's Fortune 1000 deals.
• Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE): HPE sells ProLiant servers, SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure, Alletra storage, and the GreenLake as-a-service platform. It is one of Oxide's main competitors for on-prem cloud, VMware-exit, and HPC buyers in the Fortune 1000 and federal space.
• Cisco Systems: Cisco's UCS servers and HyperFlex HCI appliances, combined with its dominant networking portfolio and Intersight management plane, target the same on-prem cloud-replacement buyers as Oxide, particularly in enterprises with existing Cisco networking footprints.
• Lenovo: Lenovo's ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile server and HCI lines compete for the same on-prem compute and VMware-exit workloads, with particular strength in HPC clusters and federal/research deployments that overlap with Oxide's LLNL-style use cases.
• VMware (Broadcom): VMware vSphere/vSAN — now under Broadcom — defines the legacy on-prem virtualization and HCI layer Oxide is positioning against. Changes in VMware licensing have created the VMware-exit opportunity Oxide explicitly targets with its VMware-replacement solution.

Emerging players

• Rivos: Rivos is a well-funded startup building custom RISC-V server SoCs and a full-stack server platform targeting data-analytics and AI workloads. It overlaps with Oxide in the 'custom-silicon, vertically integrated server' narrative for performance- and efficiency-sensitive enterprise buyers.
• Ampere Computing: Ampere builds ARM-based cloud-native server silicon and reference platforms sold to hyperscalers, neoclouds, and on-prem cloud adopters. It shares Oxide's cloud-native, scale-out, power-efficient server thesis but competes from the silicon layer rather than the integrated rack layer.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat7 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• GitHubgithub.com/oxidecomputer
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/oxidecomputer
• Xx.com/oxidecomputer

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds7 records

Investors9 records

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M&A

Investments

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