Published on 20 August 2009
You have heard about them, read up on them and seen
them in pictures and video throughout the internet and with exception
to some of the biggest data center players in the world, some of
which produce the containers, you may have never seen one in a parking
lot or in a building.
The market for containerized data centers is questionable
at the moment. If we place containerized data centers onto Gartner’s
Hype Cycle chart it is likely that containerized data centers are
sitting in the trough of disillusionment.
That said there continues to be news about new design
and projects that revolve around containerized data centers. The
latest entry to the data center container list is a new partnership
between well known APC, a Schneider Electric Company and Australian
based Datapod.
To read further, please visit the Data Center Journal
website:
http://datacenterjournal.com/content/view/3111/43/
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