Storage Effect

Containerized computing will do for data centers what shipping containers did for shipping

Patrick Thibodeau and Eric Lai at Computerworld explored the new world of modular, containerized data centers.   They see containerized computing transforming data centers at the level that containers reinvented the shipping industry last century.

Everyone’s seemingly getting in the game -  IBM, Sun, Rackable, Verari Systems for starters.

Reinventing scale

This technology will help deal with the challenges of scale in Web 2.0-driven datacenters.  I posted previously on a smaller version of this technology, but with a twist: hosting in Iceland.