Sunday, September 09, 2007

Project Blackbox

Project Blackbox was launched around a year ago by Sun Microsystems. It is promoted as a mobile data center built into a 20' shipping container. The goal behind Project Blackbox is to provide a significantly powerful and capable data center that can be easily configured and deployed to varied and extreme locations. It is an interesting product and can be seen to fit into a number of scenarios where a traditional brick-and-mortar data center would not be feasible.

The Project Blackbox website has interesting information on the product. The video of the Earthquake Test of magnitude 6.7 is particularly impressive. I hope to soon spot black shipping containers with the Sun logo on rooftops all over our city.

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