http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/archive/2008/04/02/microsoft-data-center-in-a-box.aspx&#8220;Microsoft is in the process of building the industry's first container-based datacenter.&#8221; The whole datacenter topic is one I expect to find myself talking about more and more over the next year. A whole new game is emerging that some callen-GBCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/archive/2008/04/02/microsoft-data-center-in-a-box.aspx#8352711Thu, 03 Apr 2008 02:53:28 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8352711Stu<p>“Microsoft is in the process of building the industry's first container-based datacenter.”</p> <p>Is this not the same thing that Sun was doing a year or two ago?</p> http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/archive/2008/04/02/microsoft-data-center-in-a-box.aspx#8352893Thu, 03 Apr 2008 05:14:16 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8352893Cala<p>this actually Shipped from Sun over a year and half ago - and was well-exhausted through the blogosphere back then. &nbsp;Where the hell have you been?. &nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/10/17/In-A-Box">http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/10/17/In-A-Box</a> &nbsp;</p> <p>Industry's First? &nbsp;Come again? &nbsp;This is a product that's been shipped repeatedly, and while an excellent idea, this pompom waving on the behalf of MS is pretty ludicrous.</p> http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/archive/2008/04/02/microsoft-data-center-in-a-box.aspx#8354608Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:24:57 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8354608C. Watford<p>Sun was the first, but don't forget Google and HP, both have them and Google has patents on them.</p> <p>MS is the last by far.</p> http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/archive/2008/04/02/microsoft-data-center-in-a-box.aspx#8354610Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:25:04 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8354610C. Watford<p>Sun was the first, but don't forget Google and HP, both have them and Google has patents on them.</p> <p>MS is the last by far.</p> http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/archive/2008/04/02/microsoft-data-center-in-a-box.aspx#8357507Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:46:35 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8357507Sarah In Tampa<p>Microsoft became the first company to publicly announce a data center designed out of shipping containers. The announcement was made by Mike Manos, who leads the Microsoft Global Foundations Data Center team, at</p> http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/archive/2008/04/02/microsoft-data-center-in-a-box.aspx#8365410Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:03:56 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8365410Ryan Coates<p>Steve, that MS Chicago facility must be immense, I wonder how long before we see container ports cropping up awfully close to power plants! :)</p> http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/archive/2008/04/02/microsoft-data-center-in-a-box.aspx#8366069Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:10:28 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8366069The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck<p>After having spent many years in the transportation business, this story is somewhat fascinating... there</p> http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/archive/2008/04/02/microsoft-data-center-in-a-box.aspx#8366388Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:29:26 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8366388stevecla01<p>can anyone confirm if Su have them in a production facility?</p> <p>also, those Sun boxes look great in black but not so great when you want to keep these things as cool as possible no?</p>