IBM thinks outside the box with containerized data centres (The Register)

December 7, 2009 | NEWS

Looks like we got a convoy The idea of putting servers, storage, and networking gear into metal shipping containers and linking them together into a data centre cluster is not a new idea – Sun Microsystems was the first to propose the idea back in October 2006 – but it is catching on enough that IBM is endorsing the concept and shipping a product.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud
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