Sun recently unveiled Blackbox, world’s first modular data center. From the launch site:
“is a prototype of the world’s first virtualized datacenter–built into a shipping container and optimized to deliver extreme energy, space, and performance efficiencies.”
What is truly remarkable about this is the way data center problems have been approached. I mean, which tech company in world does not own data centers, but who has dared to think outside the box? Simplistic enough, though never occurred to any other company, fitting a data center (which would stand among the world’s 200 most powerful supercomputers) into a shipyard is obviously a technical challenge, and would bust any data center’s owner’s woes of space, power and time to market. Truly great !!
Things like these make Sun truly a remarkable and innovative company. More information on this: Sun’s official web launch, Jonathan Schwartz‘s blog and Greg Papadopoulos‘s blog.
Bush and the Republicans were not protecting us on 9-11, and we aren’t a lot safer now. We may be more afraid due to george bush, but are we safer? Being fearful does not necessarily make one safer. Fear can cause people to hide and cower. What do you think? Is killing thousands of innocent civilians okay when you are doing a little government makeover?
What happened to us, people? When did we become such lemmings?
The more people that the government puts in jails, the safer we are told to think we are. The real terrorists are wherever they are, but they aren’t living in a country with bars on the windows. We are.