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un Modular Datacenter S20, widely known as Project Blackbox, is revolutionizing how companies, universities, and governments add datacenter capacity. With its high-density, eco-friendly design that enables rapid deployment, game-changing economics, and unimaginable mobility, Sun Modular Datacenter is reaching new customers world-wide who have been waiting for just this type of break-through solution.
That prospect means such boxed data centers could not only replace the corporate data center, they could also transform the computer experience for all of us. “Project Blackbox symbolizes a big bet we’re making as a company,” Papadopoulos explains. “It’s a bet that the billions and billions of client machines we’ll have in the future—desktops, handhelds, iPods, whatever—will spend most of their time interacting with the network.” These devices will have little need to store and run common software applications the way most computers do today. Instead they will simply access programs online that enable word processing, spreadsheets, and so on.
Sun’s goal is to offer a way out. The big companies such as Qwest, Level 3, Akamai and Google that erect the huge server farms that support the Internet’s ever skyrocketing traffic could add capacity much faster by linking together the prefab containers, saving millions of dollars in the process. They and other firms could also sprinkle Blackboxes around in numerous other places to create nodes in the expanding grid.
