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Perspectives
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News and Reviews
The Sun Modular Datacenter may provide the best out-of-the-box thinking ever put in a box. Hear what people are saying about this 20' x 8' powerhouse that is the perfect fit for any business.
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Customer Success Stories
The Internet Archive Project
The Internet Archive Project (IAP), which maintains a library of the world's digital assets, including all Web sites and legally accessible digital books, music and videos, has been growing at a rate of 100 terabytes every two months, and was in search of a new hardware and file system as well as a datacenter option that would increase flexibility, responsiveness and capacity for growth.
Recently, the IAP switched from a customized architecture to key Sun Storage and Systems solutions to manage their explosive growth requirements. Specifically, the IAP selected Sun's Open Storage products and technologies including ZFS to archive its data and Sun Modular Datacenter, with its 3 petabyte capacity, as its primary datacenter.
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) faced some increasingly common challenges in extending its computing resources. The IT team had a growing number of requests for servers, but couldn't fill them because its datacenter was packed to the limit. There was no further power and cooling capacity in the building to support more servers, and re-tooling these utilities is costly and time-consuming. A separate project to install a row of water-cooled racks had taken a year to complete, again because of the struggle to bring sufficient power and cooling into the building.
“ It is very exciting to have the Sun Modular Datacenter here at our center because of its simplicity. Every organization, whether it is a physics lab or a financial institution, is going to be faced with the same problem of running out of datacenter support resources. Sun Modular Datacenter helped us answer the very real challenge of how to scale up computing resources quickly, and this has meant the difference between success and failure. ”
— Richard Mount, Director of Computing Services, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
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SLAC Customer Testimonial
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center discusses their use for Sun Modular Datacenter, widely known as Project Blackbox.
Sun Modular Datacenter at SLAC
A video collage of timelapse sequences shot by local webcam and SunBTV.
Hansen Transmissions
Hansen Transmissions, a Belgium-based wind turbine and industrial gearbox designer, manufacturer, and supplier, is responding to the increasing demand for wind power with the expansion of its manufacturing facilities in India and China. In this multi-phase construction project, Hansen selected Sun MD to help ensure the Coimbatore, India plant would be up-and-running as quickly as possible.
“ In planning for Hansen Transmissions' expansion in India, we considered building a new datacenter ourselves, but determined we needed to be able to offer IT services while the plant was under construction. The Sun Modular Datacenter S20 is a great solution for us — cost effective and easy to deploy. Using the Sun Modular Datacenter, we'll be able to offer IT services in a semi-finished factory and start seeing ROI almost immediately. We also expect to use the same model to support our expansion in other countries. ”
— Marnix Maes, Director of IT,
Hansen
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In the News
Dot-com meets green in Sun Microsystems' Blackbox
Solar Synergy, March 19, 2008
The computing industry likes to brag about how much power it puts at our fingertips, but what it doesn't mention are the megawatts all those computers draw off electrical grids.
Stanford center turns to Sun Blackbox for extra capacity
Infoworld, January 30, 2008
When the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) wanted to increase its computing capacity last year it considered a satellite datacenter or an extension to the existing building, but in the end it chose a faster and more novel approach: it ordered a datacenter in a box.
Sun Gets 'Blackbox' Ready to Roll
eWeek, January 29, 2008
After a year of touring and promotion, Sun Microsystems' mobile data center is ready for sale with new services and a new name.
Sun Finds Takers For Rebranded 'Blackbox'
Internetnews.com, January 29, 2008
Sun Microsystems introduced the Blackbox, a portable datacenter in a 20-foot shipping container, amid some hullabaloo in late 2006 and thenÂ… nothing.
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Sun ships 18 TFlops datacenter in a box
TG Daily (also appeared on Tom's Hardware), January 29, 2008
Sun's Project Blackbox is shipping, literally: Now called the Modular Datacenter S20, Blackbox is a datacenter built into a 20 ft container that is sent to customers via ship or airplane.
Sun Rebrands Blackbox as 'Sun MD'
Data Center Knowledge, January 29, 2008
Sun Microsystems (JAVA) is rebranding Project Blackbox, its data center in a shipping container, which will now become Sun Modular Datacenter, or Sun MD S20.
Sun Blackbox deliverable datacenter now for sale and shipping
SlashGear, January 29, 2008
Its technically been renamed to the Modular Datacenter S20 (probably because its not black) but its still the same 20 ft. shipping container with a datacenter inside that was previously mentioned. With this you can literally have up to 18 teraflops of performance and a max of 3 petabytes of storage delivered to your front door.
Sun Blackbox Deployed Across Russia
Data Center Knowledge, January 25, 2008
Sun Microsystems (JAVA) says its portable data center, Project Blackbox, has been deployed in remote areas of Russia by that country's largest mobile phone company, extending service to places where it would be difficult to build data centers.
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