Comments on: What the inside of a container data center looks like

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:47:09 +0000

So this is for when Amazon.com needs a backup? ;P

By: 全球最有趣的8个数据中心 « Maxsailor’s Blog

全球最有趣的8个数据中心 « Maxsailor’s Blog — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:31:13 +0000

[...] 一些有创新意识的工程师意识到，数据中心并不必须得是静止的。 Sun对Project Blackbox 进行了改进，让数据中心设备展开速度比以前更快，压缩度也比以前更高。 [...]

By: curtis

curtis — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 03:16:39 +0000

So who would use this? Would this be in the event of a disaster? Or is more for military/CIA hush-hush operations?

By: ok

ok — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 06:58:28 +0000

good site amgnzs

By: Mobile data center? | BitsBlog

Mobile data center? | BitsBlog — Sun, 25 May 2008 02:59:59 +0000

[...] I’ve run data centers for years, and I admire a well-kept one, or at least one that uses space and hardware in a clever fashion. But I’ve never seen one this big that was fully mobile. [...]

By: slicerman10

slicerman10 — Wed, 14 May 2008 10:44:59 +0000

cool, I’m still interested in a laptop, though, cause I mean, ya can’t very well take one of these over to a friend’s house, but still, cool post!

By: eltopo

eltopo — Wed, 14 May 2008 03:06:40 +0000

yeah, the main point was to have a cheap datacentre wherever. so movie sets, warzones / camps, start-ups, cheap land deals, cheap electricity deals..

I don’t think they’re a great idea for permanent deployment, though. If you have security on your parking lot at work, it might be an idea, but hundreds of cat5 cables running into a big box on your front proch might tip people off, that there’s a lot of money there.

By: Shipping container data centers « Theorists of Everything

Shipping container data centers « Theorists of Everything — Tue, 13 May 2008 14:46:22 +0000

[...] post info By dpixel8 Categories: Architecture, Consumerisms, Design, Dpixel8 posts more than just an image, Hacks, art and business I know a few architects around the world are working on designing living spaces to use these over abundant shipping containers, but this is a neat concept as well. These things can be had fairly cheap ($1,500 or so, but possibly more as of late with the rising cost of steel) and this is yet another great idea to recycle. Shipping containers modified to be data centers. [...]

By: Simon Rain

Simon Rain — Tue, 13 May 2008 05:23:08 +0000

I was thinking the other way around.

There isn’t a lot of work needed to add new containers. You don’t have hire a whole construction crew to redesign your data center or build an extension to your building to house new servers. I think I can see a very practical use especially with startup companies and their possible very short lifetime or popularity explosion.

And if the company fails, Sun and Rackable can rent them and as soon as people can’t pay anymore, they just comeback and roll it away.

By: Steve Mulder

Steve Mulder — Sun, 11 May 2008 02:48:33 +0000

Two words, Hopelessly impractical.