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Re: Sun Project Blackbox / Portable Data Center

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Ward)
Mon Oct 15 01:11:05 2007

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From: Nathan Ward <nanog@daork.net>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:09:08 +1300
To: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
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On 15/10/2007, at 12:05 AM, Simon Lyall wrote:
> As for where the Blackboxes will be used, It'll be where companies  
> want
> servers in place in weeks or months and existing datacenters are  
> full or
> in the wrong place. Think of a building full of people processing
> insurance claims in India or a cluster delivering video on demand  
> in each
> Asian city with more than 500,000 people.

Or say, lots of processing somewhere short term - like video editing/ 
rendering/whatever at the Olympic games.

--
Nathan Ward

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