[COLUG] Project Blackbox - Sun

[Stephen Potter]

Keith Ward wrote:
> Anyone seen one of these yet?
> 
> http://www.sun.com/emrkt/blackbox/

They were announced several weeks ago.  It'll be awhile before they 
actually have production ready systems.  They look fairly interesting 
and have the potential to really change the way data centers are 
designed and built.

However, they have a lot of inertia to overcome.  People are used to 
plunking down several (hundred) million to build a full data center.  It 
will be tough to get them to change their culture.  Additionally, the 
current blackbox product only supports Sun gear (and most particularly 
the T1-based servers).  In order to fully productize and capitalize on 
the potential, they'll have to be cross platform.

I believe Google had something similar they had talked about before and 
so did one of the big UPS companies.

-spp
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