Photos: Taking the lid off Project Blackbox review
Reviews At JavaOne in San Francisco earlier this month, Sun showed off Project Blackbox, a working data centre from Sun that's engineered to fit into a standard shipping container 8 feet wide, 8 feet tall and 20 feet long.
[May 21, 2007, 10:05]
Sun to unveil stackable data-centre boxes
News On Tuesday, the company plans to unveil "Project Blackbox", which tucks several racks of computing gear, along with the necessary power and cooling equipment, into a standard shipping container 8ft wide, 8ft tall and 20ft long.
[October 17, 2006, 10:30]
Google and Sun will fight it out...
Talkback It's worth remembering that Sun made a big deal out of Project Blackbox, which is Sun's half-hearted swipe at solving datacenter cooling and power issues, while selling servers by the truckload (literally).
[October 12, 2007, 17:29]
Sun zooms in on growth with 'Project Redshift'
News Sun aims its research and development toward these customers, Schwartz said, yielding products such as Project Blackbox, a data centre conveniently packaged in a shipping container. Sun, having returned to revenue growth after years struggling, is...
[March 27, 2007, 9:41]
IBM cuts ribbon on portable datacentre
News Sun introduced its Project Blackbox container-based datacentre in 2006, and Rackable began talking up a similar concept called Concentro in 2007. IBM has become the latest vendor to begin offering a complete datacentre packed inside an industry...
[December 3, 2009, 13:16]
Photos: Data centre in a shipping container
News On Friday Sun invited ZDNet.co.uk to an army museum in London to see what it is calling the world's first "virtualised data centre" — basically a data centre housed in a standard 20-foot shipping container.
[May 21, 2007, 17:52]



