Rackable to get into shipping containers
SERVER VENDOR Rackable Systems will bung IBM blade systems into datacenter-in-a-box shipping containers, it said Monday.
The company said it will use exclusively IBM blade servers in its "ICE Cube" configurations, which will be complete custom datacenters assembled inside 20 to 40 foot long containers.
The IBM Bladecenter servers that Rackable deploys will be either T or HT models certified as carrier-grade equipment suitable for use by telecom infrastructure providers in extreme environmental conditions.
Each custom ICE Cube datacenter-in-a-box will be configurable with either up to 1,344 IBM dual socket blades mounting Intel quad-core Xeon processors or up to 672 IBM quad socket blades mounting AMD dual-core Opteron processors, plus power and networking hardware.
Some other cargo container, datacenter-in-a-box manufacturers include Sun, Veran, Google and Microsoft, the latter two primarily for their own use. µ
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Sun has done this by about 3 years ago.

http://www.sun.com/products/sunmd/s20/index.jsp

Sun Modular Datacenter -- aka Project Blackbox.

Stills pretty cool, indeed.



now thats what i call a man's pooter case woooooot !!!! O_O 

but no wait, wheres the floppy drive and openings for additional fans ?? :O)