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Overheard: HP container datacenter to be vendor neutral



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
HP, DataCenter
hp_pod.jpg Customers don’t want a container that only supports HP equipment. Customers want to be able to mimic their own data centers, so we’ve designed the POD to support any vendor’s hardware.

Steve Cummings, as quoted in HP’s POD: The newest containerized data center

Another modular data center is on the way — this time from HP. Here’s the press release.

At one point Google tried to patent the idea.

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