HP Pod Data Center Container

We recently got a tour of the HP POD (Performance Optimized Datacenter), which is HP's entry in the data center container market. HP's Steve Cumings provides a tour of container and some of its features, including the ability to maintain the cold aisle temperature at up to 90 degrees, much warmer than the 68 to 72 degrees seen in traditional data centers. The POD features taller 50U racks to separate and contain the hot and cold aisles.

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Science & Technology

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• datacenter
• hp
• server
• datacentre
• container
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[joepkusters]

good questions, good answers, good presentation...

[erinqueen]

movieanatommy, -- cost is actually on par with a traditional datacenter cost, or sometimes even less. List price of $1.2M for the POD itself --plus the cost of whatever IT goes inside.

[loko95ftp]

its like a big computer lol

[enigmaticottawa]

@mattmirai Your question is answered at just after 6 minutes into the video.

[joshbulldog1661]

@mattmirai pods are kept in another building

[TrueGamingMedia]

needz moar pod

[mattmirai]

@DataCenterVideos I have one question about the POD, I'm not sure if you can answer me but, the question is: What if the weather is something like the Canadian winter in Newfoundland, e.g., how can I open the back of the POD without any risk to my infrastructure? I mean, it'd be extremely cold and it may harm the racks etc.

[mattmirai]

Really interesting equipment. 

[scott93257]

Great questions and awesome answers...This gentleman really knows his hardware... Would love to have a job like his :)

[nxadmon]

This thing is a piece of junk, here's why:

All those boxes on the outside will get ripped off if you plan to ship this overseas. There's no space or planning for uninterpretable power units. There was no mention of fire suppression which is just silly. For the price you might as well engineer your own shipping container. Plus this is useless for playing Crysis :].