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Hewlett-Packard Co. has announced plans to offer container-based data centers similar to those offered by Sun Microsystems Inc., Rackable Systems, Inc. American Power Conversion and IBM.
Interest in containerized data centers stems from companies with significant data center footprints that have run out of space and/or power capacity.

“As we talk to customers, we hear more and more concerns over power and space limitations, and [the time it takes] to build out brick-and-mortar space — it is costly and can take anywhere from 12 to 18 months to complete,” said Steve Cummings, the director of scalable computing infrastructure at HP.

Very cool, do check out this interesting article talking about HP’s data center container solution. I can certainly see the reasons why this might be something of interest to different user groups. It will be interesting to see the different solutions, uses and organizations that adopt these solutions, what configurations will they use?

Could the data center in a container be the ultimate virtualization platform for the enterprise or consultancy? Want your data center virtualized, we just need to plug in our container, get the virtualization disk out and press go.

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