On 11/4/06, Andrew Lentvorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Bob La Quey wrote:
> What do you guys think of this?
>
> 17.October.2006 - After today, you'll never look at an ordinary
> shipping container quite the same way again. Project Blackbox is a
> prototype of the world's first virtualized datacenter--built into a
> shipping container and optimized to deliver extreme energy, space, and
> performance efficiencies.
Yawn. Late to the party. IBM has had this for years with their
midrange z/Series. Remember the commercials they were running about
replacing their servers with a single z/Series?
Does one simply roll an IBM z/series box into a room, plug it into a fat TCP/IP
pipe, power and a cooling system, turn iton and go to work? I am truly ignorant
of what logistics surround these z/series beasties. It seems to me that reducing
all of the peripheral logistics is the main point of the container
approach. No reason why IBM could not put z/series into a container as
well.
Is building expensive buildings, which it seems most data centers are, really
the best way to package this stuff?
AT&T has just built a new data center literally across the street from
my house.
They spent at least two years building a fortress at what had to be huge costs.
I don't see the point of it.
BobLQ
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