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  1. Now Where Did I Put Those Tiny Servers …

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (9 hours, 10 min ago) Container , Servers

    Now Where Did I Put Those Tiny Servers … The expo floors at last year’s Gartner Data Center Conference featured the Battle of the Data Center Containers, as the trade show floor was framed by three 40-foot containers from IBM, SGI and HP. But it’s not always easy lugging 30 to 40-ton containers around, and not all trade shows have space to accommodate them. To adapt, vendors are shrinking the container to fit on a table-top.

    Comment on Article Mentions:   IBM   SGI

  2. Container Data Center Buyers Guide coming soon

    Explore Article greenm3.com (Aug 25 2010) Construction , Container , Cloud Computing

    Container Data Center Buyers Guide coming soon n another sign of the momentum for modular data center designs, the federal government is developing a guide to help agencies choose among the growing number of container-based offerings. Industry consultant Mark Bramfitt says he is working with the General Services Administration (GSA) and the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) to develop a guide to evaluating container data centers and next-generation modular designs

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory   General Services Administration

  3. The Blackbox Lives! Or at Least is Not Dead

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Aug 11 2010) Container

    The Blackbox Lives! Or at Least is Not Dead One of the many unanswered questions surrounding Oracle’s acquisition of of Sun Microsystems was the fate of the Sun “Blackbox” data center container business. In the fall of 2006, Sun became the first server vendor to introduce a shipping container packed with servers, and has invested significant time and effort on evangelizing the container concept. When Oracle closed its purchase of Sun, it made no comment on the fate of the Blackbox, since rebranded to the more boring Sun MD S20. What we heard at the time was that Oracle wasn’t killing the container program, but wasn’t promoting it, either.

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Sun Microsystems   Oracle

  4. Inside Bing’s ‘Battlestar Galactica’ Container

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Aug 11 2010) Container

    Inside Bing’s ‘Battlestar Galactica’ Container Microsoft’s first deployment of data center containers was at the company’s Boulder, Colorado facility. Back in 2008 the company deployed a Verari container to power Microsoft’s Virtual Earth application. This week Robert Scoble of Building 43 provides an update on that project, which now features two containers. Check out Robert’s post for the details of his visit. The newest container is jam-packed with more than five petabytes of storage, as shown in Robert’s photo from inside the container (see above). The unusual appearance is due to the cabling being accessible from the front of the server, rather than the back.

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Microsoft

  5. eBay Pursues Modular Data Centers

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Aug 9 2010) Container , Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing

    eBay Pursues Modular Data Centers eBay plans to use data center containers at a new facility, and has issued a public request for proposals through the Data Center Pulse industry group. The winning design will be used in an 8,000 square foot data center that eBay is building in Phoenix.

    Comment on Article Mentions:   eBay   Microsoft

  6. Firm promises new take on containerized data centers

    Explore Article Computerworld (Jul 16 2010) Container

    Firm promises new take on containerized data centers I/o Data Centers hopes to leapfrog the competition by developing what it claims will be a new, more integrated type of containerized data center, the company said on Friday. I/o is best known for building and managing traditional brick-and-mortar data centers, but the company has been developing a containerized product for the past year and will make a formal announcement in two weeks, said Kindra Martone, i/o senior vice president and general manager, at the Datacenter Dynamics conference in San Francisco on Friday.

    Comment on Article Mentions:   IBM   Hewlett Packard   SGI

  7. Container Design: Busting Out of The Box

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jul 12 2010) Construction , Container

    Container Design: Busting Out of The Box 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 ...

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Europe   IBM   Microsoft

  8. Google Patents ‘Tower of Containers’

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jun 18 2010) Container

    Google Patents ‘Tower of Containers’ It’s been more than a year since Google confirmed its use of data center containers, publishing a video tour of a container-based facility built in late 2005. Since then, Google has been pretty quiet about its recent data center innovations. But the company has continued to work on design concepts for container-based data centers.On Tuesday Google was awarded a patent on data center layouts that stack containers up to four high, and other designs featuring rows of containers attached to a central power spine. The patent was filed in June 2007, providing more recent insight into Google’s designs than the ...

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  9. SeaMicro’s Low-Power Server Finally Launches

    Explore Article GigaOM (Jun 14 2010) Container , Cloud Computing , Networking , Servers

    SeaMicro’s Low-Power Server Finally Launches SeaMicro, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based startup building a low-power server using Atom chips and its own specially designed silicon to manage the networking, has finally unveiled its hardware, and it’s pretty darn impressive. The startup, which has raised $25 million from venture firms such as Khosla Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Crosslink Capital, has made a bet that companies from Facebook to Amazon would be better off using its sever, which consumes one-fourth of the power of a regular server but packs more than 2,000 CPU cores into the $139,000 box.

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  10. SGI Adopts ‘Universal’ Container Approach

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (May 27 2010) Container , Servers , Storage

    SGI Adopts ‘Universal’ Container Approach SGI expanded its data center container offerings Thursday, introducing new models that can house different server form factors and brands. The new Universal class of ICE Cube modular data centers will accommodate all SGI server and storage systems, including full-depth servers in addition to the half-depth Rackable brand servers that had been the original focus of the ICE Cube design. SGI will also introduce an air-cooled version of the container in addition to the chilled-water models.

    Comment on Article Mentions:   IBM   Interactive Data Corporation   SGI

  11. $8 Million Container Order for Active Power

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (May 19 2010) Container

    $8 Million Container Order for Active Power Active Power (ACPW) has received an $8 million order for its PowerHouse container solution, the company said this week. The order from one of the Active Power’s IT partners was largest single order in the company’s history. The PowerHouse packages a flywheel UPS, switchgear, a diesel generator and fuel tanks in a shipping container, and is designed to provide portable power infrastructure to support a data center container packed with servers.

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  12. Google & Microsoft adoption of Containers and Cloud Computing has a common pattern - cost containment

    Explore Article greenm3.com (May 10 2010) Container , Cloud Computing , Servers

    Google & Microsoft adoption of Containers and Cloud Computing has a common pattern - cost containment Cloud Computing has reached record levels of media interest and confusion. Containers had a lot of interest in the data center industry and there are some efforts like Cisco to combine cloud computing and containers. Cisco targets Data Center Containers for Federal/Defense market saves 50% capital and 30% operating costs Containers have gone through its hype phase, and now we'll see how many start buying containers. There is some new media coverage on Cisco's move in containers.

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Cisco   Microsoft   Google

  13. Cisco Containers Target Federal Market

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

    Comment "Ineresting now Cisco is in the game. If anyone is interested in a tour of a containerized data center then ..." - stephenecs

    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 ...

    1 Comment Mentions:   Cisco   NASA Ames Research Center   Verari Systems

  14. Microsoft To Cut Data Center Costs in Half

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Mar 11 2010) Construction , Container , Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing , Servers

    Microsoft To Cut Data Center Costs in Half After years of investing up to $500 million in each data center project, Microsoft plans to spend about $250 million or less on each data center going forward. Microsoft data center GM Kevin Timmons said his goal is for Microsoft's data center network to be "incredibly scalable at awesome cost...

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Kevin Timmons   Microsoft

  15. VMware Rolls Out Mobile Data Center

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

    VMware Rolls Out Mobile Data Center 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 ...

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Europe   Cisco   Sun Microsystems

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