Sun's portable Data Centre isn't portable

MAKER OF data centre gear, Sun, has announced a project to create a portable data centre.

While many would think that Sun must be going to use the latest nanotechnology to cram its new "black box" data centre onto a PC, apparently this is not the case.

In fact according to CXO Today, the closest that Sun can manage will be to stuff all its gear into a container the size of a portacabin.

Smaller than your average datacentre it is true, but unless you are superman or woman you are going to have to have eaten some serious spinach if you are going to be able to carry it.

You are unlikely to find a plane that will let you bring it on as on board luggage and you will have to find a power socket as there is no chance of it running on batteries.

Sun admits that you will need to carry your portable data centre on a train, obviously not aboard the second class carriage with the other commuters, more like in a carriage of its own.

But once you have got past the fact that it is not really portable so much as temporary, the data centre runs a Solaris 10, pre-configured data centre that can house up to 250 Sun Fire servers and provide two petabytes of storage capacity and seven terabytes of memory.

It will be seen on a train near you in 2007. µ

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