Sun, which has its Blackbox containerized data center out on tour, is suddenly facing some tough competition in the burgeoning trailer park computing market. Rackable Systems is rolling out a copycat product called Concentro that may just outdo the original. Besides sporting a most excellent name – if Flash Gordon had a computer, it would be called Concentro – Rackable’s portable data center comes in a 12m shipping container, making Sun’s 6m model look downright wimpy, and it can be packed with 9600 processing cores or 3.5 petabytes of storage. Best of all is the interior. Check it out:

another “cluster in a container”. see also, microsoft is stealing a page from the sun playbook.

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