[AlotOfReading]

The answer to "who does X" is Oxide. That's the point. You're not going to Dell who's integrating multiple vendors in the same box in a way that "should" work. You're getting a rack where everything is designed to work together from top to bottom.

The goal is that you can email Oxide and they'll be able fix it regardless of where it is in the stack, even down to the processor ROM.

[toomuchtodo]

This. If you want on prem cloud infra without having to roll it yourself, Oxide is the solution.

(no affiliation, just a fan)

[lillecarl]

If you want on prem infra in exactly the shape and form Oxide delivers*

I've read and understood from Joyent and SmartOS that they believe fault tolerant block devices / filesystems is the wrong abstraction, your software should handle losing storage.

[eaasen]

We do not put the onus on customers to tolerate data loss. Our storage is redundant and spread through the rack so that if you lose drives or even an entire computer, your data is still safe. https://oxide.computer/product/storage

[panick21_]

They have partly changed their position on that. You can listen to their podcast on their distributed block storage solution.

[yencabulator]

And a big enough customer will evaluate Oxide's resources and consider for themselves whether they think Oxide can provide a quick enough turnaround for everything. That's what GP is talking about.