HP launches half-size containerized datacenter
Thursday, 04 February 2010, 19:23 IST
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Bangalore: Hewlett-Packard now has a smaller, 20-foot containerized datacenter apart from the original 40-foot version in its Performance-Optimized Datacenter (POD) portfolio, the company has announced, reports ChannelWeb. "We have some customers who are never going to need the 22 racks in a single container," said Jean Brandau, HP's POD Product Manager, explaining the Palo Alto, California based company's decision to add a smaller unit to its POD lineup. The smaller shipping containers are also easier for HP to transport to customers around the globe. The new POD comes with ten 50 unit industry standard server racks that support up to 1,600 server nodes or about 5,400 hard drives, and provides up to 290 kilowatts of non-redundant power capacity or 145 kilowatts of redundant capacity. Those racks support any industry standard IT hardware - though Brandau said the company would 'obviously prefer' customers to populate them with HP products. Other key benefits to going the containerized route include the ability to scale out IT quickly, better energy efficiency returns than with brick-and-mortar datacenter builds, and higher equipment density. The 20-foot POD actually slightly beats the 40-foot unit on density averaging 29 kilowatts per rack to the 40-foot POD's 27 kilowatts per rack, according to HP.

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