Black Box: SUN Proves the Network is not the Computer

It’s a Shipping Container. No, It’s a Data Center in a Box

MENLO PARK, Calif., Oct. 16 — Sun Microsystems has developed a novel “data center in a box” in an effort to transform the fundamental economics of corporate computing.

The expandable computer system, called Project Blackbox, is based on a standard 20-foot shipping container and can be deployed virtually anywhere there is electricity, chilled water and an Internet connection.

Designed by Danny Hillis, giant among nerds.