Blackbox is Real
17 Oct '06 - 21:15 by benrAfter I learned of Project Blackbox I got excited... real excited. Anyone who has been around Sun in the Bay Area will recognize in the video the building behind it: the Executive Briefing Center on the Menlo Park Campus. I live across the bridge so I kicked my Volvo S70 T5's turbo into action and flew across the bridge. And I found what I sought....
It is really real. On the net the thing looks like a gag... a complex and complete one, but still a "Is this April?" check is called for. Clearly Sun planned this out ahead of time quite well, there was tons of poster sized pictures around the Briefing Center and even little scale models of it (gotta get me one of those).
Sadly, it is cramped in there and so many customers were being toured through it that I only got to walk around it.... but visable from the door was this:
Force10 Networks... hell ya. Force10 is a company that I'm watching very closely. I'm very interested in deploying these babies for my high speed iSCSI data fabric and seeing several of them (2 32port switches were below this chasis) installed was a very pleasent supprise.
One last look at the hookups...
See? Just disconnect your washer and dryer and place your orders now!
On a more serious side. I'm suprised by the Wall Street reaction. Customers seem to be excited (from the buzz I heard around the demo onsite today) and people are lining up to get a look at it. This is one very serious show of engineering force. Has the idea been thought of before? Yes. But did they dare to do it? No.
I'm reminded of an interview that Mike Judge did with Jay Leno about 'Beavis & Butthead', Jay had him do the voices and said "What? I could have done that!" to which Mike quickly snapped "But you didn't! I did!" A classic line. I'm sure HP and IBM and others will downplay this offering, but it says something powerful about Sun, they aren't just talking, their doing. Opening Solaris happened, putting a datacenter in a box happened, making the global network the computer happened, and building a platform that ran anywhere for everyone happened.
And so then why, might I ask, did wall street give Sun a slap?. I can venture several guesses, but I don't like any of them. Whether this product takes off or just becomes a page in the history book, one thing is clear, its a defining moment for the industry and for Sun and one that everyone should be very very proud of.
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Somewhat OT – I notice that the Sun logo on the container exterior is green rather than the traditional, light blue. Some of the shots on the site, with white containers, showed the blue Sun logo. Is Sun changing its logo to reflect how deep its green commitment is?Gimlet - 17 October '06 - 23:36
I think these “data centres in a box” are a great idea and see them being quite popular with those who use lights out datacentres – who knows, maybe the worlds favourite search engine may buy a few dozen.What better way to get highly concentrated computing power that drops you nicely into the top 200 supercomputers in the world. And all in one go – no need to planning permissions either, just bung it in a spare parking space or on the roof of your building.
Great idea and I really hope it gains traction.
Colin (URL) - 18 October '06 - 12:48
Now that’s a solaris container!johan (Email) (URL) - 18 October '06 - 13:34
Once you go black, you never go back?pandora (Email) (URL) - 18 October '06 - 13:51
Absolute insanity. Perhaps I can rob a bank and put it outside my dorm.geof (Email) (URL) - 18 October '06 - 16:24
These are pretty cool! I want one!As for those switches, wow, very nice. I want those too!
Looking for a nice infrastructure for building out our iSCSI environment.
Have you had a chance to work with these switches?
Do all good Solaris SAs drive volvos? ;-)
I ‘had’ a 2003 S60 T5 (blue) What a great car! Wife had a S70 SE.
But had to sell when I moved to Japan. :-(
Chris Steinke (Email) - 19 October '06 - 22:27
straight out of a William Gibson novel. That has got to be one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen.luke crawford (Email) (URL) - 23 October '06 - 22:25
> Do all good Solaris SAs drive volvos?I guess everyone in my company (a UNIX consultaning agency) must be horrible then. We all drive Volkswagen :)
But yeah, these “server rooms to go” look pretty sweet!
Cailin Coilleach (Email) (URL) - 25 October '06 - 07:30
as steve martin once said, “I’ve got the googlephonic stereo with the moon rock needle—eh, it’s good enough for my car.”but seriously, I read the article on sun.com, and I must be missing something. some Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity services will drive up an 18-wheeler full of equipment, and run your business-critical applications from the parking lot.
so I guess the dumpster full of sun equipment just doesn’t thrill me.
erik (Email) (URL) - 26 October '06 - 22:12
“dumpster full of sun equipment just doesnt thrill me.”The whole dumpster outside perspective is a turnoff as well, but I suppose it beats an RV, right?
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God damn yuppies.What could be cooler than a giant cargo container full of sun equipment? The utilitarian look adds to the coolness, imho.
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