Google has provided a fantastic video tour of their container based computing solution. They do a fantastic job of showing the amount of infrastructure required to effectively run a datacenter in a container. They also outline the “best practices” that this facility and method use. As well as their PUE of 1.25 – which is [...]

As data center space becomes harder to find, alternate forms of data storage like data center containers are becoming more popular.  This is clear, for example, from Active Power’s recent success with its Power House systems.  These act as extensions of more conventional data centers, providing extra space in the form of containers, typically until [...]

Well, Google originally filed for a patent in 2003 and finally secured a patent for the mobile data centers . It isn’t surprising that forward thinking Google came up with the idea, if that is tuly the case. Blogger Leila Thomas said, “I think this proves that Google was thinking ahead four years ago. They [...]