My own little Blackbox on Tour

See you on Monday for the real thing.

My first blackbox tour

I just had my first (private) little tour through a Sun Blackbox, an exemplar of which happens to be in Vienna these days (see also m³s coverage).



Boy that was cool...

to see how each rack is mounted on shock absorbers...
to actually see how you can save space in a data-center when you can design for it...
and just to think that you can plug a regular RJ45 jack onto that machine for network connectivity ... ;-)

More on Sun's Blackbox

Just found this on Jonathan's blog:
Blackbox on a Shake Table: "Blackbox on a Shake Table"

Earthquake simulation for the blackbox... here's the YouTube video for it.

Sun Blackbox in Vienna

I'm so eager to get a glimpse the Sun Blackbox ever since I first learned of it.
The first datacenter in a Box, as they call it.

Now, finnaly, it comes to Vienna on June 18th. I will be there. That should even give me the chance to look and walk into it.

(for full disclosure: I'm a Sun Microsystems employee)