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Foxconn, the Taiwanese electronics manufacturer known as a supplier for Apple’s iPhone and iPad, is entering the cloud computing market and will invest $63.3 million over the next five years to construct a campus to support its efforts. The complex will be built in Kaohsiung Software Park in southern Taiwan, and feature a “cloud computing center to be equipped with an internally developed container data center,” along with a software development center and a tech incubator, according to a report in DigiTimes (subscription required, also see Focus Taiwan). Pre-fabricated modular data centers using shipping containers have been adopted by companies seeking to deploy IT infrastructure quickly and in phases. The project is similar in concept to the cloud labs launched by IBM in seven sites in the Asia-Pacific market in China, India, Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Vietnam and Singapore. The Foxconn campus will offer a place where developers ...

Swedish operator plans to package design in to modular data centerDatacenterDynamicsIt is free cooling, and can be used anywhere in the world,” Karlung says. The power module, however, can be used as a built-in part of the solution, or omitted by companies choosing to use a different solution. The modules themselves, if more than one ...and more »

Can Wales become a destination for modular data centers? Next Generation Data (NGD) has prepared the top floor of its massive facility in Newport, Wales to house containerized data centers. The 140,000 square foot space includes just four pillars, which NGD executives say has made it ideal for a major modular deployment, perhaps for a U.S. cloud computing provider seeking to add capacity in Europe. The new space spans one of the three floors at the 750,000 square foot NGD facility, with the other two floors housing traditional raised-floor data center space. “We believe we have one of the premier locations in the world for containerized computing,” said Simon Taylor, chairman of Next Generation Data. “Our new container floor offers the ultimate in accommodation for a very select number of large cloud providers searching for exceptional space, power and security all from under one roof. As with ...

In the first installment of our Guide to Modular Data Centers, we defined modularity as an approach to data center design that implies either a prefabricated data center module or a deployment method for delivering data center infrastructure in a modular, quick and flexible method. Why Modular? The initial challenge for containers and the modular concept was its association with mobility. The Sun Blackbox was seen on oil rigs, war zones and places a data center is typically not found. As an industry of large brick and mortar facilities that went to extremes to protect the IT within, the notion of a data center in a box was not only unattractive, but not seen as a viable solution. However, the Blackbox and other early containerized offerings started a conversation around how data centers could benefit from a new level of standardizing components and delivering IT in a modular fashion around ...

The data center of the future is letting go of long-held traditions for design, where modular products and providers are ushering in a new era. A modular data center is an approach that implies a prefabricated module or a method for delivering data center infrastructure in a modular fashion. A modular solution takes the best ideas for design, reliability and efficiency and packages everything into a prefabricated, repeatable and operationally optimized module. What is Modular? Performing an image search on the Internet for a data center will result in a wide assortment of designs used in the past. The architectural, mechanical and electrical designs for data centers have typically been an open book. They were an open book to match existing IT requirements and an attempt to anticipate what requirements will be for the next 10 to 15 years.

Pre-fab data centres are a reality, and containers are reaching places we wouldn't have expected, says Peter Judge. Pre-fabricated buildings have a way of becoming permanent. It looks like the data centre industry has cottoned to that, and is now selling a range of options to people who want different kinds of data centres. Essentially, we have full-on pre-fabricated data centres, such as that provided by Colt to Verne Global in Iceland, which are being offered alongside containers, such as those used by HP to supply Airbus’ high-performance computing needs. There are even micro-modular data centres – consisting of one rack in a box. And I think they all have their place. Homes for heroes Excalibur proves the prefab concept The word “pre-fab” has interesting resonances. After the Second world War, the British government built 156,000 temporary homes, universally known as “pre-fabs”, to replace bomb-damaged homes. They were designed ...

AST Modular said that it has built data center container parks in two locations in Denmark for a global player in the financial outsourcing industry. The deployments consist of 21 containers.

Welcome to the world's first Data Center Container Park.Online PR News (press release)Redundancy and high availability are coupled with great levels of energy efficiency. The Container Park achieves a PUE of 1.13 thanks to AST Modular's Natural Free Cooling patented technology and is herewith recorded as the lowest PUE of any of the ...and more »

AST Modular has opened a data centre in Denmark, built using 21 modular shipping containers Modular data centre specialist, AST Modular, last week completed the delivery of a multiple data centre container park in Denmark. The container-based data centre is designed for the Nordic financial services industry. It consists of 21 containers spread over two sites, and the new containerised modules will complement the existing brick & mortar data centres. The containers are interconnected to the existing facilities by redundant dark fibre trunks, which according to AST Modular, allows the whole campus to work as one highly resilient virtual data centre of about 9,000 m2 raised floor space.

AST Modular delivers Danish container parkDatacenterDynamicsThe site consists of seven 40' IT Containers, seven 10' Natural Free Cooling Containers, three 40' Service Containers for Power and back up Cooling and four 20' Containers housing diesel generators. Power supply is 350 Watt IT load capacity at 80% ...

“We want to develop more renewable energy sources for future data center computing needs,” said Steven ... which can offer 95 percent greater energy efficiency compared to traditional data centers. HP will lend its expertise in energy-efficient design ...

Life in a BoxThe Data Center JournalAccording to a 2010 Microsoft Global Foundation Services whitepaper (“A Holistic Approach to Energy Efficiency in Datacenters”), “We have learned a lot from our container experience in [our Chicago data center] and have now moved more towards ...and more »

DatacenterDynamicsAST Modular deploys air cooled container in AustraliaDatacenterDynamicsThe system consists of a 40' IT container and a 20' 'Free Cooling' container placed on top. The firm, which is the original equipment manufacturer for IBM's Portable Modular Data Center, deployed the containers in April and said it measured a PUE of ...

Last week we noted a presentation from Amazon Web Services that discussed the company’s use of modular data centers to deploy server capacity for its cloud computing operation. Amazon’s latest modular deployment has been noticed by local media in central Oregon. On Saturday The Hermiston Herald reported that Amazon subsidiary Vadata has deployed six modules in Umatilla, Oregon. The paper describes the facility as “innocuous, bland structures — a row of six shipping containers gussied up with a few doors and vents. ” That description matches images of a modular design called Perdix that Amazon’s James Hamilton discussed earlier this month at a technology open house.

EATON produced this timely whitepaper using computational modeling as a study for a major, non-profit, healthcare network. If a picture is worth a thousand words then this graph rich document speaks volumes. BayCare Health System was looking to optimize their cold aisle containment system (CACS). EATON simulated the performance of the data center using Future Facilities’ 6SigmaDC computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Initial results showed the modeling mirrored the actual performance of the data Center quite closely. The exercise was then utilized to help determine solutions for overall optimization.