The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well.
Anne & Lynn Wheeler <l...@garlic.com> writes: > At the time, some internal locations were bursting at the seams in terms > of raised floor and 4341s were solution to installing additional > computing power ... out in department areas (at some locations, > conference rooms became a very scarce resource ... because so many were > being taken over for 4341s). re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#82 Small Server Mob Advantage http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#83 Small Server Mob Advantage http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#0 Small Server Mob Advantage http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#1 Small Server Mob Advantage alternative to taking over all the conference rooms (something that happened with big spike in 4341 installs a couple decades ago) IBM thinks outside the box with containerized data centres http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/07/ibm_data_center_containers/ from above: 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. ... snip ... -- 40+yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
