Tuesday December 02, 2008
Microsoft's Modular Datacenters Look Familiar
Call me crazy, but if Microsoft's vision of the future data center is all about packing servers into one of these...
Isn't it a lot like the vision that Sun articulated (two years earlier) to pack servers into one of these?
Incidentally, Sun's vision is now a real, live product. And Microsoft's is a cool cartoon.
Of course, I'm biased. And I'm no expert in this space. And I realize that our industry is all about building on the ideas of others.
But still... Couldn't they at least give a little credit where it's due?
Tags: blackbox datacenter microsoft modular_datacenter shipping_containers sun
Posted at 01:09PM Dec 02, 2008 by Jamey Wood in Potpourri | Comments[2]
This is a personal weblog, I do not speak for my employer.
You arent getting it....Its not just containers...Microsoft is already on record as buiying into the Sun/HP/Dell/Rackable vision of containers. In Fact Microsoft is building a massive Container facility in Chicago. This has to do with modularizing the data center generators, chillers, etc. More than just the servers itself.
I follow this space closely, there is a big difference here.
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Posted by Shane on December 02, 2008 at 04:19 PM MST #
Thanks for the comment, Shane. Yes, there is more to this than just stuffing servers into a container. And Microsoft may indeed be introducing some new ideas here. If so, they deserve to be congratulated. But those who pioneered the ideas they're building upon also deserve due credit.
Posted by woodjr on December 02, 2008 at 04:44 PM MST #