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Hewlett-Packard is still one of the big believers in containerized data centers, and the reason is simple: A select number of customers who are focused on power efficiency, speed of deployment, or both pay HP money to weld these things together and slap a coat of paint on them. At the HP Discover customer and partner …

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  1. John Smith 19 Gold badge
    Coat

    So does this make the designers and production staff

    POD people?

    You can guess what 50s SF movie I've got in the pocket.

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  2. M Gale

    Odd picture.

    From the outside it looks like a printer or a photocopier with wires on the outside. No idea of scale, unless this uses some kind of freaky TARDIS tech.

    Also "click to enlarge" reduces the image size. More TARDIS shenanigans?

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  3. Anonymous Coward
    FAIL

    Hot as hell aisle

    Pitty the poor bastard who has to service the hot aisle when faced with 7 million BTU flowing through. Not to mention any cables or other components in the hot as hell aisle.

    It would be nice to have a more analytical article vs. merely regurgitating HP's marketing BS. What's the price for a redundant power configuration with massive redundant back-up diesel generators, transformers, and UPS systems? When factoring the entire cost of site preparation, the entire facilities installation, etc., what is the real value proposition vs. a more standard, modular approach?

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  4. alwarming
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    69 per rack ?

    More than 2 people must be involved, surely.

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