Analysis: Four questions of container data center

In October 2006, the original Sun company put forward an imaginative "black box program (Blackbox)", the idea is to the data center of the main components, including computer hardware, power and cooling equipment, and so on in a standard container, which we call today's container-type data center. Moreover, sun really built such a container data center, and took it to the world to carry out a tour, but also boarded the Great Wall of China, in the industry for a while.

Sun Container Data Center Blackbox

Blackbox boarded the Great Wall

Sun's ideas quickly get IBM, HP, Dell, SGI and other foreign manufacturers to respond positively, these manufacturers have launched the relevant products. Especially in the last six months, some http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/22335.html "> domestic manufacturers, such as wave, Cloud cube, Century interconnection, have also launched their own container-type data center products, Once again, the container-type data center, once a bit quiet, has attracted the attention of the industry.

Today, however, people are familiar with the basic concepts of container-type data centers, and they are concerned about more practical issues, particularly the following four major issues:

1. What are the new improvements in today's container-type data centres?

2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of a container-type data centre relative to a traditional data center?

3. Who is actually using a container-type data center?

4. What is the market outlook for container-type data centres?

To this end, the "network World" reporter interviewed some of the container-type data center manufacturers and users, and strive to give readers a more comprehensive perspective, to learn more about this kind of special data center.