[AusNOG] Big Thanks to Datacenter Limited

[Tim Jones]

Cirrascale do one:

http://www.cirrascale.com/products_forestcontainer.aspx



From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Joseph Goldman
Sent: Wednesday, 13 July 2016 2:37 PM
To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Big Thanks to Datacenter Limited

I can't remember the name of the company - but I remember reading (possibly on reddit) of a company that builds shipping container DC's, mostly for PoP's to go into regional areas (buy small block of land, lay a concrete slab, slot in a shipping container close to major infrastructure).

For customer indoor units it doesn't make much sense to me over just building cages, but each to their own I guess. I know Google did (or still does) have a similar model but there's truly is modular to just plug in a new container and scale up iirc.
On 13/07/16 14:31, Mark Newton wrote:
On Jul 13, 2016, at 2:06 PM, James Braunegg <james.braunegg at micron21.com<mailto:james.braunegg at micron21.com>> wrote:

Does anyone have any photos of inside the containers (which they can publically share), or technical specifications ... I love all things datacentre related ... and containers are always sexy to look at !

Do they also have containerized UPSs, generators, cooling capacity? Or do they dock the containers along a services spine?

I'm kinda surprised they're being used - they were a solution to nobody's problem (except, perhaps, the US Army) when they came onto the scene in the early 2000's.

They never really caught on in private enterprise. Lots of hype, lots of articles and headlines in the parts of the tech press that regurgitate vendor press releases, virtually nothing actually sold.

Tier5 in Adelaide tried something similar with per-customer modules indoors made out of refrigeration panels.

It'll be interesting to see how this venture pans out.

  - mark






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