Datacenter in a suitcase

Datacenters are all the rage at the moment – here is one I found in a suitcase earlier today. Not by the side of the road though, I found it on Dave Ohara’s blog.

This suitcase packs a datacenter punch though with two servers running dual-core, 2.5 GHz Intel processors (Harpertown), 32 GB of memory, 4 TB of disk space for storage, a power supply, a 5-port Gigabit Ethernet Switch and even some solid-state drives into a metal box. The box consumes about 325 watts. Nice. It’s be cool if I could pop Azure on that and run my own private cloud :)

It turns out this is a Dell suitcase that that Jimmy Pike, Director at Dell’s Data Center Solutions, uses to demo their wares.

It’s a far cry from my first PC that had an 8Mhz processor, 512k of RAM and 40GB 40mb hard disk.

Comments

• Anonymous
  October 17, 2009
  Hi Steve, Was your first PC 40GB HD or 40MB? 40 GB sounds far too big for that time :)