[LINK] Greening ICT

[Marghanita da Cruz]

stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:
> Carl writes,
> 
>> "Data Centre in a 20ft Shipping Container" such as Sun's Project
>> Blackbox (http://www.sun.com/products/sunmd/s20/index.jsp
> 
> Thanks Carl .. btw, Google were awarded a patent for this in 2007 ..
> 
> And, i still think little Aussie start-ups could make a mint from this.
> Old, but good, containers are around a grand, filled with multiple core 
> servers by one or two folks in backyard industries might be gold mines?
> 
> One Microsoft data-center consists of 220 containers in a US wharehouse.
> 
> Google's patent:
> http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?
> Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%
> 2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7,278,273.PN.&OS=PN/7,278,273&RS=PN/7,278,27
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It seems there are other challenges with data centres...

> Incompatible demands strain datacenter managers
> By    siliconindia news bureau 
....
> pressure of the pessimist economy. The servers and storage systems remain underutilized and the disaster recovery plans require constant fine-tuning and upgrade as companies find that hardware and software failures are the biggest causes of unplanned downtime.
<http://www.siliconindia.com/shownews/Incompatible_demands_strain_datacenter_managers-nid-52331.html>

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