Container Design: Busting Out of The Box

Data Center Knowledge (Jul 12 2010) Construction , Container

1. Are data center containers busting out of their box? A growing number of vendors are introducing data center container products, as the concept appears to be gaining traction with end users in key sectors. As form factors evolve from standard shipping containers to more flexible modular designs, more companies are planning to build enterprise data center facilities based around containers. Running servers in shipping containers has been viewed as a niche play by many in the data center industry, limited to mobile requirements, temporary capacity, or novel designs like the cloud computing facilities being built by Microsoft and Google. But some data center design and construction firms are now rolling out designs that employ containers as building blocks for a cost-effective, energy efficient data center. (Read Full Article)

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