I think they usually just refer to this as on premise management? Like, its your server but an outside company manages everything for you
It is also exploring an arrangement called “bring your own chip” (BYOC), where new customers will be required to supply their own hardware, shifting capital requirements off Oracle’s books.
Does anyone else do this? I could see a smaller data center needing it, but hardware management is something I thought was a perk of going with a huge company
Midnitte@beehaw.org 2 days ago
GammaGames@beehaw.org 2 days ago
Ah yeah I’ve heard of that
Midnitte@beehaw.org 2 days ago
Leave it to Oracle to advertise it as something completely new and innovative.
definitemaybe@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I didn’t look into it in detail, but might this be more specific to RAM/video cards? With costs of those components skyrocketing, whoever is committing to buying those is going to have a hard time forecasting.
So maybe they’re offloading that risk? Kinda like a futures contract, but for computer chips.
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
I don’t understand why Oracle or the reporter tried to invent a new term for this. This is literally “colocation”, a term so ubiquitous that the industry typically shortens it to “colo”.
orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 2 days ago
Yeah, I used to manage a colocated Apache server back in the mid 2000s.