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    Sun Introduces New Portable Data Center—in Its Own Parking Lot

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    May 28, 2012
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      1Sun Introduces New Portable Data Center—in Its Own Parking Lot

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      From left to right: Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz, CTO Greg Papadapolous and Vice President of Eco-responsibility David Douglas address a crowd of Sun employees, industry analysts and media at the launch of the companys new portable data ce

      2Sun Introduces New Portable Data Center—in Its Own Parking Lot – Sun Portable Data Center Unveiling – 2

      2

      Sun CTO Greg Papadapolous (center), with the cover now on the ground, explains the inner workings of the companys new portable data center to a crowd of Sun employees, industry analysts and various media members Oct. 17.

      3Sun Introduces New Portable Data Center—in Its Own Parking Lot – Sun Portable Data Center Unveiling – 3

      3

      Sun employees and event guests line up to take a tour through the new portable data center that the company introduced Oct. 17. The data center fits into a standard 20-by-8-by-8-foot storage container.

      4Sun Introduces New Portable Data Center—in Its Own Parking Lot – Storage

      4

      Heres a close-up of the cables and wiring for the new portable data center, which can hold up to 1.5TB of disk space and 2TB of tape storage.

      5Sun Introduces New Portable Data Center—in Its Own Parking Lot – Data Center Tour

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      Journalists take a close-up look inside the data center at the rack-mounted blade servers (left), which are the core of the system.

      6Sun Introduces New Portable Data Center—in Its Own Parking Lot – Blade Servers

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      The new Sun portable data center, which wont be available for production use until next summer, uses standard 19-inch blade servers at its core. This kind of data center isnt designed to displace current data centers, Sun said, but it is aimed at bei

      7Sun Introduces New Portable Data Center—in Its Own Parking Lot – Offshore Oil Rig Concept

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      In this artists conception, the new Sun portable data center is being used as the IT nerve center for an offshore oil rig.

      8Sun Introduces New Portable Data Center—in Its Own Parking Lot – I/O Cabling

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      Heres a close-up of the I/O cabling setup of the portable data center.

      9Sun Introduces New Portable Data Center—in Its Own Parking Lot – Warehouse Installation

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      In another artists conception, the new Sun portable data center is being used as the IT center in a literal data warehouse for a large corporation.

      10Sun Introduces New Portable Data Center—in Its Own Parking Lot – Server Racks

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      These two racks of Sun Fire x4100 and x4600 servers are examples of what makes up the core of the new portable data center introduced Oct. 17 at Suns Executive Briefing Center here.

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