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    Cisco Unveils Its First Containerized Data Center

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    Chris Preimesberger
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    May 2, 2011
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      Cisco Systems famously shut down one of its businesses recently when it closed the Flip camera operation, but it is also expanding in other sectors-namely, the data center arena.

      Now the Internet networking giant is moving its Unified Computing System, or UCS, into the portable container data center market, similar to what IBM, the former Sun Microsystems (now part of Oracle), Hewlett-Packard, Dell-Microsoft and SGI (formerly Rackable) have been doing for the last seven or eight years.

      On May 2 the company said it has now made available the Cisco Containerized Data Center as an alternative to address the computing and networking needs of both public and private sector organizations. This intended development was first announced in March 2010.

      This gives Cisco another way to sell its UCS-a pre-configured IT hardware and software package upon which the company has been banking heavily to expand its market reach. The UCS’ network-centric data center infrastructure authorizes partners such as EMC, BMC, NetApp, VMware and Intel to provide components that Cisco does not make.

      These portable data centers come in standard 40 by 8 feet and smaller-size 20 by 8 feet shipping containers for transport on ships and trucks. All the necessary servers, storage and networking equipment are crammed into these containers; all that’s needed on location are electrical power and cooling-fluid sources.

      The Containerized Data Center provides an enclosure for each of its 16 racks. The chilled liquid cooling system enables each rack to be assigned different operational temperatures and thresholds.

      HP and Oracle Sun make both 20- and 40-foot models; the others are generally focused on the full-sizers.

      Mostly Used for Remote Military, Science Projects

      Generally, portable data centers are deployed for work done by military, science and high-performance enterprises. The frames and shells are very rugged and temperature-proof; some are being used in hot climates, such as the Middle East, and in hard-to-reach locations, such as oil and gas exploration locations. Some are used on ocean-going research vessels.

      Designed and manufactured in the United States, the Cisco Containerized Data Center is a modular data center solution in a weatherized ISO container that offers an open architecture and transportable platform coupled with a unique management platform for cost-effective data center deployments.

      Cisco claims that by purchasing a portable data center-which costs around $1.2 million for a 40-foot, fully loaded model and some $600,000 for a 20-footer-an enterprise can save 50 percent in capital expenses and 30 percent in operating expenses compared with a similar-sized, permanent land-based facility. Those are very generalized numbers, however.

      Chris Preimesberger
      https://www.eweek.com/author/cpreimesberger/
      Chris J. Preimesberger is Editor Emeritus of eWEEK. In his 16 years and more than 5,000 articles at eWEEK, he distinguished himself in reporting and analysis of the business use of new-gen IT in a variety of sectors, including cloud computing, data center systems, storage, edge systems, security and others. In February 2017 and September 2018, Chris was named among the 250 most influential business journalists in the world (https://richtopia.com/inspirational-people/top-250-business-journalists/) by Richtopia, a UK research firm that used analytics to compile the ranking. He has won several national and regional awards for his work, including a 2011 Folio Award for a profile (https://www.eweek.com/cloud/marc-benioff-trend-seer-and-business-socialist/) of Salesforce founder/CEO Marc Benioff--the only time he has entered the competition. Previously, Chris was a founding editor of both IT Manager's Journal and DevX.com and was managing editor of Software Development magazine. He has been a stringer for the Associated Press since 1983 and resides in Silicon Valley.

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