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Sun goes eco-friendly with data center compression

Jan

FIrst thing I noticed on the photo 

Posted Wednesday 28th January 2009 10:31 GMT

First thing I noticed on the photo was the big p595 on the left. And thats not exactly a server manufactured by SUN.

Smart choice of a photo, really...

Steven Jones

questionable canine connections 

Posted Wednesday 28th January 2009 10:31 GMT

"If this isn't eating your own dog food, then is at least living in its own dog house. And, not coincidentally, it's trying to get out of the dog house"

This being a coincidence entirely of the autor's own making by moving from an IT cliche via a tenuous link to a dog house to another cliche. Not to mention the inconsistent notion of it (presumably) being a good thing living in your own dog house whilst simultaneously trying to leave it to please others.

Anonymous Coward

Not true....... 

Posted Wednesday 28th January 2009 19:50 GMT

Joke

There are 2 containers @ the sca data center.

Possibly for rif collection?

Anonymous Coward

Or is that a mainframe? 

Posted Wednesday 28th January 2009 19:50 GMT

Could be an IBM p5-595 or it could (more likely) be an IBM z9 mainframe. Both would help Sun reduce its server count significantly more than its own gear!

Anonymous Coward

Non-Sun Servers in Broomfield 

Posted Thursday 29th January 2009 01:01 GMT

Consolidate first. Replace second.

Matt Bryant

RE: FIrst thing I noticed on the photo & Or is that a mainframe? 

Posted Friday 30th January 2009 18:14 GMT

Happy

As mentioned in the text of the article, Sun cannot run their business without using mainframes, which just goes to show the limits to what can be done with Sun kit. At a guess, I'd bet that's probably the shot which showed the least non-Sun kit.