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Over a year ago, we have announced the Sun Modular Datacenter 20. Some people asked about our mental status because of this announcement. But it doesn´t seem so dumb at all, as HP has announced a datacenter container on it´s own: HP Performance-Optimized Datacenter

Interesting article about the different mindsets of AIX and Sun admins. To a part, i can confirm his positions: There is a strong affection of IBM admins to slice servers into pieces. *Pars is the strongest argument of IBM to sell servers to this group, making expensive racks for 4-core servers out of a midrange or high-end machine. And by the way: They tend do do it with the machines of competitors, too. I saw Sun Fire 25K sliced into 18 4-Proc (or E10K in 16 4-procs) domains leaving me with raised eyebrows about such a strange configuration.

And the last paragraph of this article speaks a very true word:

And that’s the people problem at the heart of this whole business of trying to predict data center costs under alternative Sun and IBM scenarios: it’s the people in charge, not the technologies, that really make the difference - and because they’ll always do is what they know how to do, failure to align skills sets with technologies before you buy means your costs will be about the same no matter what technology you hand them.

No, a fan from HP. I´ve already reported about the new fan technology out of the HP labs. This is what you get, when you solve the cpu heat problem at wrong end. HP designed this beast of a fan.

It´s obvious you can find better solution. You can buy already one from Sun. The solution is called UltraSPARC T1

(via cuddletech and uadmin)