POD Pads Proliferate at HP

1. What does a data center “container farm” look like? Daniel Bower of HP’s Eye on Blades blog has posted photos of the construction of a pad that will house five HP POD(Performance Optimized Datacenter) containers. The facility will apparently be used to test PODs, and features a concrete pad and connections for power and chilled water. There’s no sign of walls or a roof as yet. While these could be added later, the ability to house containers in outdoor areas alongside existing data centers is one use case being advanced for these “data center in a box” container offerings. HP ... (Read Full Article)
   
   

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