Large inventory of modular data center at home and abroad

Today's modular design is common in large cloud computing data centers and http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/13840.html "> supercomputers, The vendors of modular data centers are also ready to push the trend further. However, for the domestic users, for a considerable period of time, will still choose to deploy a modular data center in the interior, rather than container-style. This is because domestic users will be more concerned about the security of the data center, put on the roof, car parks are worried about the occurrence of uncontrollable incidents, followed by a large number of domestic land resources, especially in the north-west of sparsely populated areas, but also for the development of data centers to provide alternative land. However, along with the rapid development of E-commerce enterprises, all this is not expected. It is believed that in the next two or three years, the modular datacenter will take the place of the traditional data center. So how many companies at home and abroad to launch a modular data center?

Companies that launch modular data centers

October 9, 2007, Sun Blackbox appeared. This is the industry's first container data center, with 250 servers deployed in sun Blackbox, more than 7TB of dynamic memory, and more than 2PB of disk storage. Compared to building a similar traditional data center, blackbox only 1/10 of the time, and 1/100 of the construction costs, blackbox all the system requirements is a power line and an Internet access, plus a water supply and an external cooler, Enables you to quickly deploy Blackbox.

HP's modular Data center product is called POD (portableoptimizeddatacenter). Customers who have recently used pod to expand their IT business include UCLA, Skoda Dynamics, and Texas State El Paso, USA. The Pod series is designed for data center expansion, capacity increase, and disaster recovery, as well as temporary capacity during data center transformation, while providing maximum density without reducing availability. It also provides comprehensive management, automation, and integration capabilities.

The modular products of Dell Data Center Solutions Group (DCS) are supporting the Bing map, the University of Colorado supercomputer and the TIER5 facility in Australia, and Dell will be used to populate its own cloud data center in Quincy, Washington.

AST Modular is a modular, secure, energy-efficient data center leader, headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, and in the United States, South America, Asia-Pacific office. So far, more than 550 data center projects have been implemented successfully in more than 30 countries worldwide. Dating back to 2001, AST Modular has initiated and produced the ISO container data center, reducing the data center deployment time, and was the first company to build a T3 standard multiple container data center project. AST Modular occupies 20% per cent of the global Container Data center market and has a number of global patents in the modular and container data centers. Currently settled in China, by Beijing Bo Yue Group (Banyano) exclusive agent.

Colt is providing its built-in modules for Verneglobal in Iceland, which will hold servers to manage data pipelines for host hosting vendors, while providing a major deployment for a system integrator phoenixit in London.

Ebay has adopted a new modular design in the U.S. Phoenix New data center and will use modular products in the second phase of the main datacenter near Salt Lake City.

Century interconnection has been conducting research on container data centers since 2002, and in April 2003 the patent of container-type data center and box-type data center infrastructure and its container data center were obtained.

Cloud computing pioneer Amazon is using a modular design called Perdix, which deploys data centers for several sites in central Oregon State.

Microsoft has been most active in modularity, and Microsoft has made modularity part of the data centers in Chicago, Washington, Virginia State and Iowa.

Google may have been the first company to use containers in large-scale deployments for its 2005 data center.

IBM Portable Modular Data CENTRE,IBM can use multiple containers within 8-12 weeks to configure an area of 500 to 2500 square feet. The largest portable modular data center has 19 rack space and can hold 798 1U servers. Using IBM's iDataPlex rack server or BladeCenter blade server, the density within the container data center can be doubled to 1596 servers, while the energy consumption within the container is still within range. Of course you can put any equipment you need in the container, the container is just a platform.

Cisco, the Internet giant, is also moving into the portable Container data center market, similar to Ibm,sun, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft and other data centers. These portable data centers have two products, 40x8 feet and 20x8 feet size standard. servers, storage, and network devices are crammed into these containers.