RSSSun’s datacenter-in-a-box
In case you're not hopping on the whole SaaS, off-shore, outsource your Web 2.0 social network services bandwagon these days, if you're one of those old-school CIOs with an affinity for large, frigid rooms full of lots of blinky lights (and who among us can fail to be impressed by such a sight?), if you like your horsepower close at hand, then Sun has got a product for you!
The Sun Modular Datacenter S20 is the culmination of their "server room in a shipping container" project which was originally dubbed Project Blackbox. For under $600K, American, you too can park one of these bad boys out behind your garage.
Dan Farber has a list of several companies who are already deploying these portable, turnkey datacenters.
This uptick in sales for the S20 comes at almost the same time as word has leaked that Google has apparently killed their own cargo container data center (I keep wanting to call them "cans"… too much Season 2 of "The Wire" I guess. "Hey, Bunk, you need to get down to the port. Port cops found a can of dead servers just sitting out on the docks. Looks like it was murder… their coolant line connection was hammered shut.") project. While the Sun project was always intended for commercial sale, the Google effort's goals were less clear and perhaps less attainable. Maybe now they'll just go out and pick up some S20s.
