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UPS, Generators Join Servers For Boxed Data Centers

Posted by timothy on from the one-stop-shopping dept.

miller60 writes "As more companies look into using a 'data center in a box,' you can now get your UPS and generator in a box as well. HP and Sun have begun offering containerized power and cooling infrastructure along with their data center containers, offering an expansion path for facility owners that have run out of power and cooling capacity. Microsoft also plans to use containerized power and cooling in its next-generation facilities, allowing it to build them with no roofs (remember its tent data centers?)."

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  1. Obligatory by Van+Cutter+Romney · · Score: 3, Funny

    UPS and generator in a box

    Now, what can brown do for you?

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    1. Re:Obligatory by CannonballHead · · Score: 4, Insightful

      It can probably deliver the aforementioned UPS and generator in a box. :)

    2. Re:Obligatory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Wow, UPS can deliver UPS in a box? Talk about recursion. /mind-explodes

  2. There are ... by PPH · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... more and more things that you can get (NSFW) in a box all the time.

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  3. Nothing New by madsci1016 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Generators and climate control built into containers is not a new idea at all. Traveling carnivals have used generators in containers for decades. The same for air conditioning for outdoor boat shows. The fact that Sun is just offering the option to go with boxed data centers when costumers could have easily just contracted out to a generator company instead isn't news.

    1. Re:Nothing New by cryfreedomlove · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yes, I've always seen a lot of parallels between IT and traveling carnivals. They both share an ability to provide steady employment for anti-social freaks.

    2. Re:Nothing New by sexconker · · Score: 2, Funny

      Not to mention working for peanuts.

  4. This Apparent Future by Dr.+Eggman · · Score: 3, Funny

    It seems the future is flexible, expandable, customizable. The future is moving to interchangeable, physical modules of enterprise. The Future is the most awesome LEGO blocks project ever!

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    1. Re:This Apparent Future by PrescriptionWarning · · Score: 4, Funny

      No way, these are way bigger... like Duplos

  5. Gotta do something with all those containers by Philip+K+Dickhead · · Score: 2, Informative

    Now that the global shipping economy has collapsed.

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