Project Blackbox
The world's first virtualised data centre in a shipping container attracted Australia's top IT and Government professionals during it's recent 4 day Australian visit.
A thousand attendees from both public and private sector organisations experienced guided tours through the virtualised data-centre.
Project Blackbox is Sun's latest eco innovation designed to provide flexibility and meet customer demand for green IT solutions. A protype of the data centre of the future - it's designed to solve today's critical IT issues: cost, space, cooling and energy consumption.
Project Blackbox will be available in Australia from March 2008 and pricing will start at AUD$700,000.00
Take a glimpse of the Data Centre of the Future.
Project Blackbox delivers several unique advantages:
- Rapid, Easy Deployment: "Build once, deploy anywhere"
- Very High-density Computing: Capacity for over 700 CPUs, 2000 cores, or 8000 compute threads!
- Versatility and Flexibility: "What you want, where you want it, when you want it".
- Breakthrough Economics and Eco Responsibility: scalability, use of standard components, cooling innovation, low cost to build, efficiency, and Sun's recycling initiatives.
Learn how to:
- Grow your business without growing datacentre costs
- Increase efficiency and capacity within your datacentre
- Do more with less through datacentre consolidation
- Use innovation as a competitive advantage
Project Blackbox Interactive Tour
Join Dave Douglas for an interactive, 3D animated demo of Project Blackbox's key feature and benefits.
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Why Sun for Datacentre Virtualization?
Executive Vice-President John Fowler discusses Sun's latest innovation for virtualization.
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Project Blackbox Earthquake Test
Sun uses one of the world's largest shake tables at University of California, San Diego, to see how Project Blackbox would survive a magnitude 6.7 earthquake. Watch as inside cameras catch the shaking.
Video Support»
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Watch the Project Blackbox Storybook. Press play to view.
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Where is Project Blackbox
Follow Sun's Project Blackbox tour. Hear what people are saying about Project Blackbox. Learn more information about the world's first virtualized datacentre.
“ Sun has carefully studied the problems that keep IT management up at night, then created a product to address those problems. The Blackbox is a simple and elegant solution being introduced at exactly the right time. ”
- Jim Burton, Ideas International. Fast Company
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