Back in my college years I applied for a job at a company that provided computing power for a stock trading company. Understandably here, time was money, and so part of their disaster recovery plan was a complete duplicate of their internal setup that was, and I quote, ‘kept in the back of a lorry round the corner’. <\/p>\n The intention was that in the event of some sort of failure, they could bring the hardware out of storage and get the system back up and running within a couple of hours. <\/p>\n Sun now provides something similar, but perhaps more off-the-shelf than a custom built setup in a lorry, in the form of Project Blackbox<\/a>. The concept is interesting — take a standard-sized shipping container, stack it full of the equipment you want and then provide a single access point on the outside with power, networking and cooling connections to provide a ready to run datacenter.<\/p>\n<\/img><\/a><\/p>
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