Category: Container

1. Countries in the News

   (1 articles) Europe

2. Organizations in the News

   (7 articles) IBM

   (7 articles) Microsoft

   (4 articles) Sun Microsystems

   (3 articles) ASHRAE

   (2 articles) Dell

   (2 articles) NASA Ames Research Center

   (2 articles) The Green Grid

   (2 articles) Cisco

   (1 articles) SGI

   (1 articles) Oracle Corp.

3. People in the News

   (1 articles) Vivek Kundra

   (1 articles) Kevin Timmons

1. VMware Rolls Out Mobile Data Center

   Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Feb 9 2010) Container , Cloud Computing

   VMware is going on the road to showcase its virtualization technology. And it’s bringing all its equipment with it in a rolling mobile data center packed with gear from Cisco Systems, NetApp, Dell Xsigo and parent EMC Corp.The VMware Express is making its debut at this week’s VMware Partner Exchange Event. The Express will be crossing the U.S. and Canada to bring VMware demos to customers, but the exact schedule of apeparances hasn’t yet been worked out. The road show follows on the example of Sun Microsystems, which put its Blackbox data center container on a truck and stopped outside ...
   

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2. HP Offers 20-Foot Version of POD Container

   Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Feb 3 2010) Construction , Container

   HP has rolled out a 20-foot Performance-Optimized Datacenter (POD), offering a smaller version of the 40-foot container it introduced in 2008. The new offering offers a lower price point for companies that need mobile computing or expansion space, but may not require a full container of IT equipment. With the smaller form factor, HP also matches the container options from Rackable, Verari and IBM, which all offer the choice between a 20-foot or 40-foot container. The marketing of the 20-foot unit also reflects a focus on customer choice. The 40-foot POD was painted blue and featured prominent HP logos. The ...
   

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3. Oracle and the Dawn of Containment

   Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jan 27 2010) Container

   Attend any data center industry event these days, and you’re likely to hear multiple presentations mentioning the merits of variable speed airflow and isolating hot and cold air in the data center. But things were different back in 2004, when the data center team at Oracle Corp. confronted rising heat loads as the comapny expanded its Austin, Texas data center. “There was no discussion of variable airflow, there was no discussion of containment,” said Mukesh Khattar, Director of Energy at Oracle. “At the time it was hot aisle/cold aisle.”
   

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4. Verari Sold, Driggers Back as CEO

   Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jan 17 2010) Container , Cloud Computing

   High performance computing specialist Verari is regrouping after a team led by company co-founder Dave Driggers prevailed in an auction of the company’s assets. On Dec. 11 Verari halted most operations and laid off most of its staff, and its assets were placed for sale in an auction run by Credit Management Association. The company never filed for bankruptcy protection, but instead sold its assets through a process known as Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors, with Silicon Valley Bank as the largest creditor.
   

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5. IBM Steps Up Its Partner-Driven Container Game

   Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Dec 2 2009) Construction , Container

   IBM is getting serious about data center containers. Big Blue brought one of its 40-foot Portable Modular Data Center (PMDC) containers to the Gartner Data Center Conference, where it shares the expo floor with the HP and SGI containers that have been regulars at industry conferences for several years now. Today IBM announced a formidable lineup of partners who will help it outfit the containers to customer specifications. Partnerships are critical to IBM’s strategy in the container market, where it has followed a different path than several of its competitors. Rather than advancing a particular design vision, IBM has positioned ...
   

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6. IBM Shines Spotlight on Its Container Data Center Ecosystem

   Explore Article greenercomputing.com (Dec 2 2009) Construction , Container , Cloud Computing

   At the Gartner Data Center Conference today, IBM highlighted the technologies that go into the company's Portable Modular Data Center (PMDC), and showed how the energy-efficient computing center can be applied to a range of companies and locations. The laundry list of tech firms that have incorporated their innovations into the PMDC -- including APC by Schneider Electric, Emerson Network Power, Eaton and Panduit -- is intended to show how IBM's "data center in a box" is an open architecture that can be adapted to work with any type of IT hardware, and that it offers nearly plug-and-play functionality for ...
   

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7. NASA’s Nebula: The Cloud in a Container

   Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Dec 2 2009) Container , Cloud Computing

   What do you get when you combine cloud computing and data center containers? You get NASA’s Nebula, the space agency’s new data powerhouse, which provides on-demand computing power for NASA researchers. Nebula was recently cited by federal CIO Vivek Kundra as an example of the government’s ability to “leverage the most innovative technologies.” The Nebula application lives in a 40-foot container at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif. The “data center in a box” was built inside a FOREST container from Verari Systems, which is filled with Cisco Systems’ Unified Computing System and servers from Silicon Mechanics.
   

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8. Bull Debuts Mobull Container for HPC

   Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Nov 23 2009) Construction , Container , Servers

   There’s a new entry in the market for data center containers from Bull, the French IT conglomerate. The Mobull container is designed to house up to 1,620 servers and support power loads nearing 40kW per rack. The system, which is available in 20- or 40-foot sizes, employs Bull’s water-cooled Cool Door technology on the rear door of server cabinets. For more ifnromation, see Bull’s announcement.
   

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9. Manage Air Flow & Improve Efficiency

   Explore Article Processor.com (Nov 19 2009) Container

   Optimizing air flow for your data center can be a challenge when you want to maintain both a reliable and efficient operating environment. An airflow management system that’s designed to separate hot and cold air makes the most of infrastructure cooling capabilities, controls interior temperature fluctuations, and sustains an eco-friendly atmosphere. Wright Line’s suite of airflow containment solutions addresses these issues. Wright Line’s HCS (Heat Containment System) adapts to your current rack configuration and works to direct heat exhaust through a chimney attached to the top of the enclosure.
   

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10. A Standard for Data Center Containers?

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Nov 18 2009) Construction , Container

    One of the keys to the success of shipping containers is standardization, as detailed by author Marc Levinson, whose book explains how containers “made the world smaller and the world economy bigger.” Standardizing on a 40-foot size spurred the international growth of intermodal freight transport by either rail, ship or truck. Is there a similar boom in store for data center containers? That may depend on whether the industry can agree on a standard for modular designs, including those using containers. Microsoft, for one, is doing its best to nudge the data center industry toward the use of standard Pre-Assembled ...
    

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11. Mike Manos: A Practical Guide to the Early Days of Data Center Containers

    Explore Article LooseBolts (Oct 30 2009) Construction , Container

    In my current role (and given my past) I often get asked about the concept of Data Center Containers by many looking at this unique technology application to see if its right for them. In many respects we are still in the early days of this technology approach and any answers one gives definitely has a variable shelf life given the amount of attention the manufacturers and the industry is giving this technology set. Still, I thought it might be useful to try and jot down a few key things to think about when looking at data center containers and ...
    

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12. ‘Container Centers’ As a Facility Niche

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Oct 14 2009) Construction , Container

    Are ”container centers” a real estate niche with a future? As server-filled shipping containers gain traction, several providers of wholesale data center and colocation space have begun housing data center containers for customers. A Virginia company is going one step further and developing dedicated facilities for containers. Dock IT of Reston is adopting a multi-tenant approach to the container-focused design implemented by Microsoft in its new Chicago data center, albeit on a smaller scale. Just as data centers are designed around the requirements of IT racks filled with servers, Dock IT’s “docking stations” are built to capture the economic benefits ...
    

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13. Can Cloud Computing Ever Truly Be Sustainable?

    Explore Article FastCompany.com (Oct 1 2009) Container , Cloud Computing , Servers

    Data centers aren't exactly known for their sustainability--the power hogs are responsible for 1.5% of all power use in the United States. But as cloud computing, the IT golden child that uses mega-data centers to store information, becomes more popular, so do data centers. Without energy efficiency measures, data center consumption will total $7.4 billion annually by 2011 (compared to $4.5 billion today). So what can be done to save cloud computing without bleeding cash and energy?
    

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14. Microsoft Unveils Its Container-Powered Cloud

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Sep 30 2009) Construction , Container , Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing

    A look at one of the double-decker data center containers housed at the massive new Microsoft data center near Chicago. The facility includes both raised-floor space and plug-n-play bays for containers packed with servers. As the bay door opens at Microsoft’s enormous new Chicago data center, the future backs in on a trailer. Forty-foot long containers packed with servers are unloaded with winches, and stacked two-high onto “air skates” that float on compressed air. Using the air skates, as few as four employees can move the 60-ton stack into place in Microsoft’s “container canyon” in the lower floor of the ...
    

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15. Datapod: The Next Evolution of Containers?

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Sep 14 2009) Construction , Container , Cloud Computing

    Australian infrastructure company Datapod has developed a system of modular container components that allow companies to quickly deploy data centers to fit their available space and power. Datapod recently announced a partnership with APC by Schneider that will offer clients the ability to integrate Datapods with APC’s InfraStruXure data center architecture, Hot Aisle Containment System and InRow Cooling solutions. “We can make the best use of your available space and power,” says Scott Carr, Managing Director of Datapod, who calls it “the ultimate data center.” Gordon Makryllos of APC by Schneider describes it as “the next evolution of containerized data ...
    

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