A few days ago Mycurial sent me the info about Sun’s data centre in a box. But, while trying to get my head on straight I didn’t have a chance to read up on it until today. Now, this thing is brilliant in it’s simplicity. After the events f 9/11 it became clear that disaster planning was something that had, up to that point, not been given the serious review that it required. The few mobile backup centers that existed at the time were pressed into service in a hurry. Now, we add in the outrageous cost per square foot for datacenters in New York, Toronto, London et cetera. Sun, bless their hearts, took the obvious and ran with it.
“Just about every CIO and startup I meet says they’re crippled by datacenter energy and space constraints — today’s solutions are clearly failing to meet the needs of Web 2.0,” said Jonathan Schwartz,CEO and president, Sun Microsystems. “Rather than trying to improve upon today’s datacenter, designed for people babysitting computers, Project Blackbox starts from the world’s most broadly adopted industry standard, the shipping container, and asks — how can we most efficiently create modular, lights-out datacenters from this base? The answer…with one-hundredth of the initial cost, one-fifth the cost per square foot and with 20 percent more power efficiency, we can deliver an immense multiple of capacity and capability — anywhere on earth.”
And to think that a VP at a former company I worked for scoffed at the idea of mobile datacenters. I’m no fortune teller but, this is one of the few things that I saw as a future business. Hell, if the bottom had not dropped out of the internet craze a few years ago I would already be retired to some far away place.
So, kudos to Sun for rolling out this offering. Very cool.
[tags]Sun, Mobile Backup, Datacenter, Project Blackbox, Disaster Recovery[/tags]
