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http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/07/16/HP_to_offer_data_centerinabox-IDGNS_1.html

Hewlett-Packard became the latest vendor to announce a “mini-data center” housed in a shipping container, which can provide a way for companies to add compute capacity when power and cooling systems in their existing data centers are maxed out.

HP’s Performance Optimized Data Center, or POD, will be available in the U.S. by the end of the third quarter and worldwide a few months after that, the company said Wednesday. HP joins Sun Microsystems, Rackable Systems and IBM, among others, who sell similar products.

Very cool, I read this article with interest to see what the reception will be to it. That we have several vendors offering their own mobile data center has to be a good thing for innovation of the data center and the servers/management tools, bringing more options and choice to the end user.

Check out their site, it’s an interesting read all about the solution and has a video, it’s always great to see what the possibilities are with the platform, what technologies they’re using and what they see it being used for: http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/cache/595887-0-0-0-121.html?jumpid=products/pod.

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