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10/01/09
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Think of it as a MASSIVE blade server. All you need is once set of generic industrial data/power/cooling connections that you hook up into the trailer and in less than a few hours you can have hundreds of new servers online. The trailer it's self is pre-wired for everything and is basically one whole data room.
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Thats the problem I have honestly cause I am not a Sun fan personally. Its the fact that Microsofts own PR states its new and its the first time, when in fact its nothing of the sort and Tech blogs who dont know better are eating the Microsoft PR up.
At least when Apple releases something they are clear on what is new and what is something that was done before, but Apple took a new take on (IE the iPod). Here Microsoft blatantly lied and said they did it first.
10/01/09
All the gadget politics and die-hard affiliations aside, this is a very impressive feat. It saves MS tons of $$$ and takes advantage of the building's location to cut down on cost and energy. And even though it's 7x the size of Sun's server population, it takes just 4 people to set up!
Don't crap on the article just because evil *insert stock symbol of choice* is doing it.
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Sun developed container based server units years ago. I remember reading about them in Wired when I was still in college back in 01-02.
Just did some quick lookup, Sun first deployed their finalized Blackbox concept in 2006, meaning it beat Microsoft and Google by 3 years.
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It's about the way they're using it in their data center. :)
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So you know I'm not pulling it out of my ass:
[www.sun.com]
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Just because Google has a patent doesn't mean they can enforce it. Sun developed the concept, thus their version can be used as prior use and void Googles claims to it.
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D'you happen to have links handy? I'd like to include the info if that's the case.
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[www.sun.com]
[www.youtube.com]
Now I will admit the ability to use the location IS innovative, but its also particular to its deployment area and also a concept thats been done by other companies in their data center deployments.
There is no way in hell being able to use the environment would be able to work in other areas like say Arizona, or Texas. Heck even NJ would not get cold enough in the winter to be able to pull off that type of environmental cooling
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Thank you very much for the links and the background info.
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Pshh...Apple moved away from that tech years ago. Now they're using Unibody shipping containers.
Unfortunately, they still haven't figured out how to open them once they're sealed.
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too soon?
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Reading is fundamental! NO ONE said MS is the first and only person to use containers..."THE WAY MS IS APPROACHING IT IS SOMETHING WORTH PAYING ATTENTION TO".....facepalm
10/01/09
Its NOTHING new, Microsofts PR is just making it seem like it is. The only thing they could possibly say is expandability, but again its simply because no one has dropped that much money to expand one that big. For MOST applications, there is no reason TO expand a data center to that size in the first place.
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