Hewlett Packard has launched a new portable data centre to provide extra capacity when existing data centres require more compute power.
The Performance Optimized Data Centres, or PODs, are housed in 20 or 40-foot shipping containers and all businesses have to do is plug in cooling and power supplies and a network connection before they can use them.
Building a new data centre from scratch is both expensive and time consuming, so the data centre-in-a-box concept is expected to become increasingly popular as higher technological demands are placed on existing facilities.
Steve Cumings, director of infrastructure at HP's Scalable Computing and Infrastructure group, said the POD acts as a great complement to traditional data centres.
"HP's innovative POD approach allows customers to deploy world-class, scalable, highly power-efficient data centre resources quickly and ships in just six weeks." added Christine Martino, the group's general manager.
HP's announcement comes after IBM rolled out its own range of portable data centres.
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Last Updated: 18/07/2008 16:09
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