The test was the culmination of weeks of more subtle shock testing. With the SRMD we’ve observed Project Blackbox as it is subjected to less severe, but more normal shock such as might be incurred ...

The computing company is offering its Project Blackbox system for use in disaster recovery and consolidation. Sun Microsystems wants federal agencies to throw their information technology into ...

A portable datacenter may seem like pie in the sky, but in fact, Sun Microsystems has already constructed it. Whether Project Blackbox, which Sun calls the first virtualized datacenter, catches on ...

Project Blackbox, Sun Microsystems' prototype of a self-contained, virtualized datacenter is making the rounds via flatbed truck. Still in Beta, the unit has everything--an entire data ...

Sun Microsystems is putting an entire data center in a shipping container, betting that it could help overcome the escalating real estate costs, and can (literally) provide computing on demand. The ...

When the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center wanted to increase its computing capacity last year it considered a satellite datacenter or an extension to the existing building, but in the end it chose a ...