Google has been doing this for a while, and the so called "portable-datacenter" idea isn't all that new. What's unique about Sun's solution compared to an internal solution such as Google's is that its relatively mainstream hardware, fully contained power/environmental controls, and very easily portable (from what I've read/seen).
The utility of portable datacenter blocks is very clear, think beyond the "cool" or "why" factors and look at the following: - Large scale development projects - Emergency response (can you imagine how useful this would've been during Katrina, along with a portable interface to COWS, the cell network could have been up and running in 72 hours or less) - Disaster recovery for remote datacenters, CLEC's, etc. The potential utility here is great. Now, let just hope that it's all its cracked up to be. Regards, Mike Lockhart =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Mike Lockhart [Systems Engineering & Operations] StayOnline, Inc http://www.stayonline.net/ mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 8714 6F73 3FC8 E0A4 0663 3AFF 9F5C 888D 0767 1550 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Damian Wiest Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 11:49 AM To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Sun BlackBox On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 01:31:01PM -0500, Nick Guenther wrote: > On 11/1/06, Chris Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 14:55 -0300, Gustavo Rios wrote: > >> Dear list members, > >> > >> While visiting sun blackbox home page, i saw they have a new project > >> called blackbox. But i don't know whether openbsd could be used within > >> it. > >> > >> Gustavo Rios > > > >Do you plan to need a trailer full of Sun hardware? > > > > > >They're just normal Sun machines in a trailer. > > Why would you ever want a trailer of computers? So you can go RV'ing > and still hack?; get a double degree in Hick/Nerdism? > > -Nick I haven't priced shipping containers lately, but I imagine this sort of setup could be useful in more rural areas instead of building out a facility. Plus, they're shipping containers so you could stack a bunch of them together. -Damian
