Comments on: Sun’s Computing On Demand, Literally

By: Incorrigible

Incorrigible — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 21:30:40 +0000

It would make sense to have everything in a self contained unit and move it along or keep it always on the move, you never know where your datacenter is and does that add to security, may be yes.

With Wimzx getting deployed in the coming years, you never know, the sun farm will always connect to the nearest Acccess point/s and presto you have a data center which can come online if required any where where you have wimax..

There are thousands of applications for such equipment, May be use them to crunch data during War. May be DOD has already placed orders

By: tom

tom — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 03:12:21 +0000

how is this revolutionary? who only needs 7 racks of equipment? i can't see anyone other than govt agencies like the military or fema use this. any idea how much power it will require if fully populated? i would guess not more than 150kw if each rack has 2 X 30amp 208v and roughly the same power for cooling.

i guess they could rack em and stack em in the moffet hangar but i certainly wouldn't proclaim this as revolutionary and being on a front of nyt with this…well that is funny.

By: Data Center Knowledge

Data Center Knowledge — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 20:02:38 +0000

Sun's Blackbox: Game-Changer or Niche Product?…

Yesterday's launch of Sun's Project Blackbox has prompted a wide range of opinions from industry watchers, with some calling it revolutionary while others found it only mildly evolutionary…

By: IT Blogwatch

IT Blogwatch — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 10:39:03 +0000

Sun blackbox boggles bloggers' brains (and iPod…

Blink and you'll miss IT Blogwatch, in which Sun unveils it's shipping container datacenter. Not to mention a totally tubular iPod dock…

By: Isabel

Isabel — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 01:04:53 +0000

Eric B – I had the opportunity to check out APC’s InfraStruXure Express. It packs 10 racks on the back of an 18 wheeler. It’s totally decked out in chrome; I’d never seen anything soooo shiny. Unfortunately you can’t transport it with any gear. It’d weigh more than most states’ highway limits. That was the case back in January at least, when the unit I saw was the only one in existence.

By: amy

amy — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 23:30:13 +0000

To tag onto another Cringely article, an alternative to Sun: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20060901.html

“Where’s Googlization for the rest of us? It’s called Appistry.”

By: dave

dave — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:08:05 +0000

i predict that google will use sun’s support model for the enterprise, and that’s about it…perhaps some customization of processors or other tools for infrastructure, but beyond that they’ve already bailed on the openoffice distribution prospects from what one might tell by reading the assorted press bits…

By: ronald

ronald — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:38:55 +0000

Old, copied idea???? http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20051117.html Quote: “There, in a secret area off-limits even to regular GoogleFolk, is a shipping container. But it isn’t just any shipping container. This shipping container is a prototype data center.”

By: Eric B

Eric B — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:16:15 +0000

I still like APC’s solution: http://apc.com/products/family/index.cfm?id=318

By: matt

matt — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:06:09 +0000

Meh. To fill these racks w/ 35 sun servers will cost close to a million dollars, plus the 500k. But what they seem to miss: people don’t put there machines in data centers because they are hip, rather because they are secure and redundant: redundant cooling, redundant power, biometric security, staffed 24×7, earthquake proof, fireproof – the list goes on. And the power – oh the power. What the heck kind of circuit am I going to run to this little box? Just not sure it makes a lot of sense.

By: Vishal

Vishal — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:00:55 +0000

We still have to see the results of SUN and Google and partnerships. There has been a lot of talk about in past but nothing concrete has come to this date. I’m sure something is cooking there, but what it is anybody’s guess

By: matthew

matthew — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:00:31 +0000

can anybody explain the allure of this product to me? why would someone purchase something that is so much more expensive than a commodity hw setup? i assume it would offer certain energy cost savings, but enough to justify the price?

By: carl

carl — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:21:14 +0000

has sun come to this?

hardly an 'epiphany' moment, is it?

dear, oh dear …