Sun Blackbox at Austin Technology Incubator
Sun Microsystems and the Austin Technology Incubator request you to join us to preview the world's first datacenter in a box.
Code-named “Project Blackbox”, this Sun innovation is the first virtualized datacenter, optimized for extreme energy, space and performance efficiency. Project Blackbox will enable instant-on expansion and rapid deployment, while maximizing savings and providing operational flexibility to address two of today’s most critical IT issues – soaring energy prices and space constraints.
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This event is part of a worldwide tour, designed to let you see and hear Sun’s strategy and vision. More important, it gives you a chance to discuss your IT challenges – whether it’s meeting compliance mandates, maximizing return on your IT assets, or managing the energy and space crunch in your datacenter – with peers, Sun experts, and key partners who can help. This is one event you don’t want to miss.
AN OPEN INNOVATION
Come hear about the latest innovations and open software approach from Sun. Learn how we innovate at every level of networked systems to save customers significant time, effort, and money. And discover how Sun’s end-to-end approach builds more security, efficiency and longevity into systems, – while engineering cost and complexity out.
LEARN MORE ABOUT PROJECT BLACKBOX
http://www.sun.com/blackbox
Please RSVP for your personal tour at:
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Event Code: 1993
MCC Building Administration
The University of Texas at Austin
3925 West Braker Lane
Austin, TX 78759
Date: February 14, 2008
Time: 9am - 6pm
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I read something recently about google building 300 cargo containers full of similar black boxes (energy efficient servers) for deployment worldwide at all the hottest internet nodes. Can google world domination be that far away?
If it is Google instead of Microsoft then I for one welcome our new Google masters.
FWIW, Google already builds their platforms on massive arrays of cheap (and energy efficient) servers that are geographically diverse. I hadn't heard anything about them drop shipping to a whole bunch more locations, but it actually sounds like a pretty cool idea to reduce backbone bandwidth usage and reduce latency by locating their servers closer to users.
speaking of cargo containers I found this interesting piece:
A Bay Area startup is planning to build data centers on cargo container ships, according to Kenneth Jamaca at Silverback Migration Solutions. Jamaca said the company, known as IDS (International Data Security), is planning to build up to 50 data centers on de-commissioned cargo ships, including 22 in North America.
IDS told Jamaca that their first initial space will be available at Pier 50 in San Francisco in the beginning of April, and that the company has signed anchor tenants. "These ships will live in port in their designated cities, and will rely on standard connectivity for power and network," Jamaca writes. Using cargo ships allows for flexibility and the ability to expand based on the availability of ships and port space, rather than real estate.
IDS apparently plans to develop the below-deck areas as data center space, and use deck space to house container-based data centers like Project Blackbox from Sun Microsystems or Rackable's ICE Cube. A sales brochure (PDF) for IDS pictures 14 black containers aboard an oil tanker. The brochure says IDS plans to use biodiesel to power its generators and use heat from equipment to manage temperature on board the ships, reducing their reliance on grid power.
IDS is led by CEO Ken Choi and President Richard Naughton, according to Silverback. Choi is also CEO of Quantum Route, a Mountain View, Calif. company specializing in RFID technology. Naughton is a former Navy admiral and superintendent of the Naval Academy, who also headed the Navy's transportation command and served as CEO of Xenonics, which makes night vision products for the military.
source
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com
By the way I also read google scrapped it's cargo container server idea due to "conservative managers" according to a SF Chronicle article about google employees leaving because they were so wealthy.