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"Data Center in a Box", by Sun

Back in 1994 or so, you could buy a thing called Internet in a Box, which was all the software you needed to get the Internet up and running on your Windows PC, in a box.

Now, Sun just rolled out a new "in-a-box" application: Project Blackbox. Now, a data center is just a matter of ordering up one of these 20' shipping containers and finding a place to park it. Sun does the rest, jamming the box full of everything you need. No more wrestling with multiple vendors, juggling floor space for a data center installation, or worrying about how you're going to upgrade your a/c to handle the cooling duties, or any other annoyances related to setting up a data center from scratch.

You can fit up to 150 servers, 10,000 desktop users, and 1.5 petabytes of database into disk on one of these babies. Install some nice BI stack on top, and you've got the ultimate in a turnkey BI system!

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