Sun Microsystems have announced a new plan to ship ready-to-go data centres housed in a shipping container! Project Blackbox is the brainchild of Danny Hillis, supercomputing guru. He said that the project will "be attractive to customers that need to expand computing capacity quickly." Just plug it into some juice, hot and cold water, and away you go.
An original idea? Perhaps not. There have been reports that Google have had a similar puppy in their basement carpark for more than a year.
Adding fuel to the fire of Nick Carr's commodization of IT? I think so.
Monday 30 October 2006
Data Centre in a Can (albeit a big can)
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