1. Cisco Containers Target Federal Market

    Data Center Knowledge (Mar 15 2010) Container , Cloud Computing

    1. Cisco Containers Target Federal Market It’s no surprise that Cisco Systems has confirmed that it is officially developing a data center container offering. In reality, Cisco (CSCO) has been busy in the container market for some time, most visibly in procuring a container for the Nebula cloud computing project at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif. The Nebula “data center in a box” was built inside a FOREST container from Verari Systems filled with Cisco Systems’ Unified Computing System (UCS). Now Cisco is packaging a UCS-packed container as a product, with the U.S. government as its anchor customer. “We’re looking at a model of building a Cisco container – with a Cisco part number – that will contain the unified computing platform,” said Bruce Klein, Cisco’s U.S. public sector senior VP, who told InformationWeek that Cisco had orders for 150 containers for the U.S. military. (Read Full Article)

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    On 4/14/10 stephenecs said:
    "Ineresting now Cisco is in the game. If anyone is interested in a tour of a containerized data center then this will be of interest.

    Enterprise Control Systems announced today the schedule for their 2010 Containerized Data Center Road Show Tour that will showcase a truly vendor neutral containerized data center. The event, which will stop at major cities throughout the Western United States, including a stop at PG and E’s Conference Center in San Ramon CA, will strive to show data center operators how they can improve energy efficiencies over traditional data center designs by deploying containerized data centers. http://www.rapiddatacenter.com"

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