Announcing Market Availability of Sun Modular Datacenter 20
Previously Previewed as Project Blackbox, Sun MD 20 Wins New Customers Too
Today, Sun is announcing the availability of the Sun Modular Datacenter 20 (the Sun MD S20), previously previewed as Project Blackbox. Highlighting global demand and the broad applicability of a virtualized, modular and mobile datacenter, we're also announcing Sun MD customer wins in the manufacturing, telco and healthcare industries, with implementations for Hansen Transmissions, Mobile TeleSystems OJSC (MTS), Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre (UMCN) and a second unit at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Cetner (SLAC).
Since we first introduced it in October of 2006, Project Blackbox – Sun's powerfully compact datacenter in a shipping container – has captured the imagination of press, analysts and businesses worldwide. Now, one world tour and several avid customers later, Project Blackbox is gaining market favor as a cost-effective, eco-efficient, accelerated alternative to the traditional datacenter.<
Sun MD leverages Sun's design innovation to engineer out complexity and provide a high-density, energy-efficient and rapidly deployable solution to meet datacenter expansion and mobility requirements. Capable of 18 teraflops of compute performance or 3 petabytes of disk capacity in a heterogenous environment, Sun MD is deployable in one-tenth the time it takes to design, build and deploy a typical brick and mortar datacenter, at a fraction of the cost. Sun MD, with its innovative watercooled design, also delivers 40 percent lower cooling costs, independent of payload, as compared to a typical datacenter. Additionally, a new Sun MD Suite of Services supports Sun MD deployment from site preparation to installation and testing, as well as integration of Sun MD into existing IT infrastructures.
Read more – and let us know if you'd like to receive an indepth briefing.
Today, Sun is announcing the availability of the Sun Modular Datacenter 20 (the Sun MD S20), previously previewed as Project Blackbox. Highlighting global demand and the broad applicability of a virtualized, modular and mobile datacenter, we're also announcing Sun MD customer wins in the manufacturing, telco and healthcare industries, with implementations for Hansen Transmissions, Mobile TeleSystems OJSC (MTS), Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre (UMCN) and a second unit at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Cetner (SLAC).
Since we first introduced it in October of 2006, Project Blackbox – Sun's powerfully compact datacenter in a shipping container – has captured the imagination of press, analysts and businesses worldwide. Now, one world tour and several avid customers later, Project Blackbox is gaining market favor as a cost-effective, eco-efficient, accelerated alternative to the traditional datacenter.<
Sun MD leverages Sun's design innovation to engineer out complexity and provide a high-density, energy-efficient and rapidly deployable solution to meet datacenter expansion and mobility requirements. Capable of 18 teraflops of compute performance or 3 petabytes of disk capacity in a heterogenous environment, Sun MD is deployable in one-tenth the time it takes to design, build and deploy a typical brick and mortar datacenter, at a fraction of the cost. Sun MD, with its innovative watercooled design, also delivers 40 percent lower cooling costs, independent of payload, as compared to a typical datacenter. Additionally, a new Sun MD Suite of Services supports Sun MD deployment from site preparation to installation and testing, as well as integration of Sun MD into existing IT infrastructures.
Read more – and let us know if you'd like to receive an indepth briefing.
