Containers are a New Category Green Data Center Blog

From all the traffic and interest in Containers. I created a new category on my blog for Containers.  In the month of April since Microsoft presented its Container Strategy in more detail at AFCOM, I've written 14 posts.  There have been snippets of information by Microsoft on containers in the past, but it looks like AFCOM was Microsoft's strategic move in Containers.

I expect there to be more news from vendors and customers.

/container/index.html is the link to the category.

I have on my list of things to do is to create RSS Feeds per category, but with Earth Day tomorrow, I won't get to this until later.

Comments

[Andrew Graham]

I understand the use of a container for a small site, emergency data center, or mobile application, but I don't understand the data center RV park application unless it is for a co-location use & even then you are going to have to harden the rest of the site to accommodate the electrical, mechanicals & communication to support the containers. There are "Green" modular panel solutions that can be used for a quick build, reusable & expandable large scale data center that would encompass the entire footprint and set-up pods for users to provide protection from theft, water, fire, acrid gases, EMI & RF interferences while not limiting the levels of capacity & redundancy we can achieve.

[Dave Ohara]

Yes, containers can be used in small and mobile scenarios. But,in the presentation that Mike Manos gave at AFCOM's Data Center World he showed rows and rows of diagonally parked trailers (looking like a bunch of RVs), demonstrating how Microsoft was planning on deploying 10,000s of servers using containers. All of these containers are within the building not outside, so the containers are not exposed to the environment and security is not an issue.