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Image Courtesy Rackable Systems Website
Third in my series of overviews on containerized datacenters is Rackable Systems ‘Ice Cube’. Rackable Systems boasts the highest processor, storage and rack unit densities of all three systems I’ve reviewed. HP is going to kick themselves, but I found out about these guys by watching the background of the HP promotional video of their POD containerized datacenter solution.
Here are the basics of Rackable Systems’ solution: The Ice Cube
HP has been promoting their containerized datacenter solution as a ‘cloud computing’ solution, implying that this is a datacenter virtualization product as well, even though it is primarily infrastructure and the computers, disks and tape storage devices are all extra. I put together the basic statistics on the HP POD for you.
The HP’s Solution: The Performance Optimized Datacenter (POD)