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The idea of putting servers, storage, and networking gear into metal shipping containers and linking them together into a data center cluster is not a new idea–Sun Microsystems was the first to propose the idea back in October 2006–but it is catching on enough that IBM is endorsing the concept and shipping a product.

Big Blue was showing off its riff on the containerized data center, which is called the Portable Modular Data Center, at the 28th annual Gartner Data Center Conference, in Las Vegas, last week. And as you can see, it is a shipping container with a paint job–well, at least on the outside.

Its great to see IBM offering the data center in a container, that the choice and innovation in this sector continues has to be a good thing, it will be interesting to see the specifications and more information, this blog had some great detail, do check it out.

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