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Rackable has introduced ICE Cube, a ‘datacentre in a can’ with the claim that it can do more processing and store more data than Sun’s similar Blackbox product, while reducing required cooling.

It is the mark two version of an earlier Concentro system, which was a supercomputer-like system in terms of processing power. It has been well and truly beaten with the new Integrated Concentro Environment, or ICE Cube, echoing in its name a popular hip-hop artist who helped originate gangsta rap.

ICE Cube comes in a full size (40 foot) or half size (20 foot) container. The big one can hold 28 racks of servers totalling 2,800 quad-core Intel Xeons, that’s 11,200 cores, or 4.2 petabytes of storage. This is four times more server racks or almost three times more disk storage than Sun’s pioneering Project Blackbox containerised datacentre can hold. That was introduced in October, 2006.

This does sound very cool, I still think these kind of solutions could be a great way of providing functionality for that small/medium business short term or in a disaster recovery situation where you need more systems or performance?

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