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Sun Blackbox gets new name and customers

Sun Blackbox gets new name and customersActually, the idea is neat: extremely quick deployment of an HPC or datacenter. SUN puts it together and ships it as a container where-ever one is needed.As long as nobody hitches it up to a truck and takes it away, it should work fine...

Tags: Sun Blackbox, new name, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-01-29

Sun Blackbox gets new name and customers

Sun's Blackbox, the data center in a shipping container, has gained customers and earned a less compelling new name, the Sun Modular Datacenter S20 or Sun MD. Starting at $559,000, the container can be deployed in about three weeks and can hit 18 TFlops and provide up to 3 petabytes...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Blackbox, Data Centers, Storage, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2008-01-29

Sun's Blackbox shakes and bakes

Sun has been earthquake testing its datacenter housed in a shipping container--Project Blackbox at the University of San Diego UCSD, which has a “shake table,” more formally known as a Seismic Response Modification Device.The video shows Project Blackbox shocked by a 6.7 magnitude earthquake. It survived with some detached...

Tags: Sun, Hardware Infrastructure, Datacenter

Blog posts 2007-06-11

IE 7, Sun's Blackbox, Moto Q, Apex and more...

IE 7, Sun's Blackbox, Moto Q, Apex and more...Feed no longer worksYour podcast RSS feed no longer functions. It failed to detect or deliver the latest Dan & David episode into iTunes, which forced me to manually download the MP3 to my hard drive and transfer it to my iPod....

Tags: Podcasts, Digital music, Digital media, podcast, Sun Blackbox, Moto Q, Apex, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-10-25

IE 7, Sun's Blackbox, Moto Q, Apex and more...

This week on the Dan & David Show, we check out Internet Explorer 7, which was officially released into the world at 5 PM PST on Wednesday. Its a major improvement to IE 6, but it doesnt leapfrog Mozilla. I was launch event for Suns Project Blackbox, a portable data...

Tags: Apex, Microsoft Internet Explorer, podcast

Blog posts 2006-10-19

Additional Resources

Peering inside Microsoft's giant data center

New Type of TheftI can just see the headlines.Hard drive stolen, just drove away.But realistically mobile servers will be helpful but this will affect an industry that builds these data centers.Again MS is trying to create unemployment.Nothing wrong with automating jobsEspecially jobs that can be automated easily.However, I doubt this...

Tags: Data centers, Recruitment & Selection, Storage, job, data center, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Inside a Microsoft data center

It takes mucho computes and terabytes to create the 3D models used in Microsoft's Virtual Earth online mapping service. So how do they cram 5,000 cores and 10,000 terabytes - 10 petabytes - of storage into 3 40 ft. shipping containers? Containerized data centers Sun...

Tags: Data Center, Verari Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Photograph, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2009-03-24

Blackbox, SWaP, and the z10

Blackbox, SWaP, and the z10Over a barrelis where IBM has you if you still use mainframes. Not only is the hardware very expensive, but the labor is too. Universities stopped their mainframes ages ago, so no CS student today has any idea what a mainframe is. This means that you...

Tags: Mainframes, Servers, Processors, Hardware cost, Shaw, mainframe, Z10, hardware, CPU

Discussion threads 2008-11-06

Blackbox, SWaP, and the z10

During last week's discussion of IBM's z10 numbers, one contributor claimed that it is both space and power efficient - so I suggested he compare the z10's numbers to those for Sun's project blackbox. Since I doubt he bothered, I've done it for all of us -and the results are...

Tags: Paul Murphy, Data Center, Network, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM POWER6, IBM Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Servers, Processors, Networking, Hardware, Data Management, Semiconductors, Components

Blog posts 2008-11-06

Fun with IBM's Z10 numbers

Fun with IBM's Z10 numbersI just don't believe the IBM numbersin terms of real-world workloads and comparing Linux-to-Linux implementations. Maybe if you are doing some kind of multi-dimensional modeling you might get some advantage from the z10, but for work-a-day web hosting?RE: Fun with IBM's Z10 numbersSo... we're looking at...

Tags: Linux, Mainframes, Data centers, Servers, Storage, Z10, IBM Corp., Z10 number

Discussion threads 2008-10-29

Photobucket's DNS records hijacked by Turkish hacking group

Photobucket's DNS records hijacked by Turkish hacking groupJust wait until Paypal gets hijackedSo far this has just been child's play. Sooner or later there's going to be some serious financial consequences, and not just for the site owners.RE: Photobucket's DNS records hijacked by Turkish hacking groupThat's all very well... but...

Tags: Domain names, NETWORKING, SECURITY, Photobucket, Turkish, hacking group, DNS Records, DNS, hacking

Discussion threads 2008-06-18

IBM is latest to ask: Why not take that data center to go?

Is it really a whole year since IBM unleashed its Project Big Green brainchild on the IT industry, triggering a barrage of like-minded efforts across the high-tech industry? Well, apparently it is, and the company is using the anniversary to make a push for some of its...

Tags: Data Center, IBM Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-06-15

News to know: Yahoo; Microsoft; Windows worm hole; Demo 08

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Vista and Windows Server 2008--an unbreakable couple? Microsoft seeks new Windows Media Center testers Microsoft makes Visual Studio 2008 more broadly available Larry Dignan: Yahoo lowers its outlook for 2008; Sees 'headwinds'; Restructuring in Feb. Techmeme eBay outlines...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Yahoo! Inc., VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Mesh Networking, Software, Networking

Blog posts 2008-01-30

Sun Microsystems: Can it grow?

Sun Microsystems has made a lot of progress in recent quarters: It has become more efficient, stabilized spending, transitioned to new products and made smart acquisitions like MySQL in a quest to offer a complete software stack. But there is one lingering question: Can the company grow? ...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Growth, Sun Microsystems Inc., Construction, Open Source, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-01-25

The Big Switch: The network becomes the data center

The Big Switch: The network becomes the data centerSounds like McNealy's Big Friggin Webtone Switch 2.0Sounds like McNealy's Big Friggin Webtone Switch 2.0. Only this time, there won't even be ANY servers. It will be in the magical cloud. The network is the computer, who needs computers....

Tags: Data centers, Servers, Reading, data center, server, consolidation, Big Switch, network

Discussion threads 2008-01-13

(Images: Linux gets a taste of Windows and Mac)

(Images: Linux gets a taste of Windows and Mac)A taste of Windows and Mac?KDE has been around for long time you know.RE: (Images: Linux gets a taste of Windows and Mac)[B]Kickoff[/B] – Been available in KDE 3.4 so basically for about two years now. OpenSuSE and I believe PCLinuxOS use...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Desktops, Operating systems, UNIX, Beryl, virtualization, Apple Macintosh, KDE, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2008-01-11

Denial and the coming "data meltdown"

Denial and the coming "data meltdown"I'm surprised...That he didn't bring up project Blackbox. A lot of catastrophic failures are geographically localized.http://erikengbrecht.blogspot.com/2007/12/data-center-meltdown.htmlRE: Denial and the comingI'm sure what we're talking about is putting all our eggs in one basket.One economical(read cheap, insecure, and ill managed) basket.RE: Denial and the comingThis...

Tags: Data centers, Storage, SUN Now, data center, denial

Discussion threads 2007-12-11

How Rackable saves power with impeller fans

How Rackable saves power with impeller fansHow can Google hold a patent on somethingthat was being used during WWII when containers containing radio and tracking equipment were being distributed in this way, as well as the current military having mobile datacenters of thier own for some time now?Everyone has some...

Tags: Data centers, Servers, Advertising & Promotion, Branding, Rackable, Sun Microsystems Inc., proprietary hardware, hardware, server

Discussion threads 2007-11-16

News to know: Outlook flaw; Ending spam; Windows to Mac; Gamemaster

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: MS Outlook flaw adds new twist to URI handling saga. David Berlind: After authentication of senders, ending spam requires a relationship managment protocol. Tech Shakedown #10: Windows Media Player's error dialog road to nowhere. Podcast: Google's search appliance 5.0 mines...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple Macintosh, Lawmaker, ComScore Networks Inc., Spam, Microsoft Corp., Sprint Communications, Flaw, Shrep, Microsoft Windows, Thin Clients, Media Players, Microsoft Outlook, Cyberthreats, Digital Music, Operating Systems, Digital Media, Software, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Security

Blog posts 2007-10-11

LinuxWorld 2007 goes green with Green Grid consortium

Fred Stack - Emerson Network Power, David Douglas - Sun Microsystems, Rich Lechner - IBM, Colette LaForce - Rackable, Andrew Kutz - Burton GroupNext generation data center and green computing were common themes at LinuxWorld 2007 and the Green Grid panel brought many of these issues to light.  Pictured above...

Tags: Information Technology, Consolidation, Sun Microsystems Inc., Mainframe, Server, Hardware, George Ou

Blog posts 2007-08-10