Rent-a-Node™ FAQs
1. What is Rent-a-Node™ (RaN)?
Answer: Rent-a-Node™ is the world’s-first proprietary platform that decentralizes and democratizes AI, compute, and storage – fundamentally changing the economics of how customers leverage the public cloud.
Rent-a-Node™ enables revolutionary new revenue streams for service providers (Rent-a-Node™ Operators, RNOs) and significant savings for software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies on their hosting services (“Tenants”, Rent-a-Node™ Cloud, RNCs).
Rent-a-Node™ enables revolutionary new revenue streams for service providers (Rent-a-Node™ Operators, RNOs) and significant savings for software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies on their hosting services (“Tenants”, Rent-a-Node™ Cloud, RNCs).
2. How does Rent-a-Node™ work?
Answer: RNOs can repurpose underutilized real estate assets and gain a predictable revenue stream from day 1, by fulfilling the demand for data center resources.
RNOs purchase Symbiote® based Pizza™ 1U platforms from Cachengo®. RNOs provide climate-controlled environments, reliable power, fast internet, and Cachengo® installs the system on location. It’s really that simple!
RNOs purchase Symbiote® based Pizza™ 1U platforms from Cachengo®. RNOs provide climate-controlled environments, reliable power, fast internet, and Cachengo® installs the system on location. It’s really that simple!
3. Who can become a Rent-a-Node™ service provider (Rent-a-Node™ Operator/RNO)?
Answer: Anyone who has underutilized real estate can become a Rent-a-Node™ Operator (RNOs). Available commercial real estate, agricultural facilities, and vacant retail locations are examples that can be used by RNOs.
4. Who are Rent-a-Node™ Cloud Tenants (RNCs)?
Answer: Rent-a-Node™ Cloud Tenants (RNCs) are SaaS providers that would like to use Rent-a-Node™ to reduce their software hosting costs by 70% to 90%, compared to traditional cloud service providers.
These RNCs also benefit by avoiding expenses associated with purchasing their own servers, GPUs, and storage infrastructure. By using Rent-a-Node™, they only pay for resources they use.
These RNCs also benefit by avoiding expenses associated with purchasing their own servers, GPUs, and storage infrastructure. By using Rent-a-Node™, they only pay for resources they use.
5. What are the benefits of Rent-a-Node™?
Answer: RNOs can realize up to 5X+ rental income profitability compared to traditional compute and GPU architecture rentals from cloud service providers.
By using Knowhere™, an easy-to-use infrastructure management and marketplace portal, RNOs can offer Symbiote® nodes for rent to RNCs.
For RNCs, renting Symbiote® based infrastructure nodes to host their software applications can result in a 70% – 90% reduction in hosting costs, compared to traditional cloud service providers.
Additionally, there’s zero data egress charges with Rent-a-Node™, further improving profitability for RNCs.
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By using Knowhere™, an easy-to-use infrastructure management and marketplace portal, RNOs can offer Symbiote® nodes for rent to RNCs.
For RNCs, renting Symbiote® based infrastructure nodes to host their software applications can result in a 70% – 90% reduction in hosting costs, compared to traditional cloud service providers.
Additionally, there’s zero data egress charges with Rent-a-Node™, further improving profitability for RNCs.
Please click here to find out more about Rent-a-Node™, and the benefits it offers.
6. What is the minimum Rent-a-Node™ configuration required at initial purchase/deployment?
Answer: The minimum Rent-a-Node™ configuration has a total of 40 Pizza™ 1U platforms in two racks, resulting in a total of 1,280 Symbiote® nodes and 640TB of total storage.
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7. What are the requirements to support a Rent-a-Node™ configuration?
Answer: The location must be able to maintain an ambient air temperature of 75°F before installing a Rent-a-Node™ configuration.
There is also a minimum requirement of 2Gb (2 gigabit per second), and non-redundant fiber internet connection.
There is also a minimum requirement of 2Gb (2 gigabit per second), and non-redundant fiber internet connection.
8. Who’s responsible for installation and set-up of Rent-a-Node™ at RNO’s location?
Answer: Cachengo® will install and set-up Rent-a-Node™ at the RNO’s location.
9. Who sets the rental price for each Symbiote® node?
Answer: Symbiote® node rental prices are based on the agreement between Cachengo® and the RNOs.
10. How do RNOs and RNCs interact regarding renting Symbiote® nodes?
Answer: They will use Knowhere™, an easy-to-use infrastructure management and marketplace portal.
RNOs can offer Symbiote® nodes for rent to RNCs. RNCs can then rent Symbiote® nodes and select the software applications they need.
RNOs can offer Symbiote® nodes for rent to RNCs. RNCs can then rent Symbiote® nodes and select the software applications they need.
11. I’m an RNC and there’s a software application I need, but it’s not available on Knowhere™. How can I get that application and what’s the turn-around time?
Answer: Email the service desk [email protected] and Cachengo® will open a request with the software application vendor. Delivery will be dependent on the 3rd party vendor.
12. How does Cachengo® ensure data security and integrity for Rent-a-Node™?
Answer: Cachengo® provides enhanced data security and governance with our Hive Connect peer-to-peer network architecture, making data breaches virtually impossible.
Additionally, Symbiote® nodes will only share data within a peer group, isolating data only to those that have access rights to the nodes.
Additionally, Symbiote® nodes will only share data within a peer group, isolating data only to those that have access rights to the nodes.
13. How does Cachengo® address data latency challenges compared to traditional data centers?
Answer: Rent-a-Node™ minimizes data latency challenges by having RNOs geographically located where their nodes for rent are available.
14. What are the finance requirements to become an Rent-a-Node™ Operator (RNO)?
Answer: Please contact us. to further discuss any finance related topics.
For further questions regarding Rent-a-Node™, please contact us.
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