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20061025 Wednesday October 25, 2006


Project Blackbox

I just got back from my 2 weeks of annual army reservist training. I belong to the Signal vocation, you know, the people who carry radio sets with long antenna sticking out and aways the first sniper's target :p. Anyway, I realized that today, technology plays a vital role in modern warfare. I believe many modern army are using technology to speed up information update, e.g. monitor the battle progress in real time by the command center; command your troops using point and click like playing Command & Conquer (well, not quite there yet, but not totally impossible).

Now that I'm back, I came across something new in several of the blogs. I find it such a cool idea that I have to put it here: Introducing the "world's first virtualized data center", Project Blackbox. I say put it on a truck with a satellite connection and you got a moving command center! Well, probably not for the military, but what about a disaster recovery coordinating center? Think Katrina and Tsunami...

Posted by melvin ( Oct 25 2006, 02:19:05 PM SGT ) Permalink Comments [3]


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