Sun's data center container is one example of a commercial modulare data center product
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — On Friday, Chinese government-owned server manufacturer Inspur announced this week that it has launched its “smart cloud” container based cloud data center product, according to a post in the English language version of the People’s Daily Online.
According to the post, the “Smart Cloud” is the first cloud data center product built in China. The report says it is designed to outperform traditional data centers in energy consumption, manageability and configuration.
Information on the product launch is scarce online, and the objectivity of the People’s Daily report is certainly related to the fact that, according to Wikipedia, is an official arm of the country’s Communist party. However there report itself doesn’t include too much subjective discussion of the quality or significance of the product.
There are plenty of reports online from the last couple weeks discussing Inspur as among the key adopters of Intel’s new Xeon chips, and Intel has certainly been designing new hardware for micro-computing implementations, including the cloud.
The People’s Daily post says traditional data center architectures have become a bottleneck in the development of cloud computing, due to the length of the construction cycle, their rigid structure, utilization limits and high levels of power consumption.
It says Inspur’s new design follows the more modular building model, packing data center components like power supply, server hardware and cooling equipment into a complete container, which simplifies configuration and management while reducing construction time and cooling costs.
Modular, container-based data center construction has become a popular method among computing hardware firms, with Sun Microsystems, HP and others offering data center container products, along with major internal data center operators like Microsoft.
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