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Containerized data center equipment could increasingly become a way to add capacity to existing data centers without having to build entirely new data centers,IBM (NYSE: IBM) cloud VP Ric Telford predicted in a presentation Wednesday at the Interop Conference and Expo in Las Vegas.

In the last year or two, IBM and other companies like Rackable, HP, and Sun Microsystems have begun to sell shipping containers already preloaded with servers, networking and other data center equipment, and according to Telford, much of the early market has been for transient needs like when companies need a lot of capacity for a short period of time somewhere away from their main data centers.

We’ll have to see where the container type data center goes, it’s certainly not for everyone, but I still remain a fan of them for specific needs. It will be interesting to see what uses justify their deployment and if in effect they could be our own corporate equivalent of cloud?

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