{"id":735,"date":"2007-03-26T22:45:15","date_gmt":"2007-03-27T04:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/?p=735"},"modified":"2007-03-26T22:45:15","modified_gmt":"2007-03-27T04:45:15","slug":"showdown_at_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=735","title":{"rendered":"Showdown in the trailer park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sun, which has its Blackbox containerized data center out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun.com\/events\/st\/loc.jsp\">on tour<\/a>, is suddenly facing some tough competition in the burgeoning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/archives\/2006\/10\/trailerpark_com.php\">trailer park computing<\/a> market. Rackable Systems is rolling out a copycat product called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rackable.com\/solutions\/concentro.htm\">Concentro<\/a> that may just outdo the original. Besides sporting a most excellent name &#8211; if Flash Gordon had a computer, it would be called Concentro &#8211; Rackable&#8217;s portable data center comes in a 40-foot shipping container, making Sun&#8217;s 20-foot model look downright wimpy, and it can be packed with 9,600 processing cores or 3.5 petabytes of storage. Best of all is the interior. Check it out:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"concentro05_lg.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/images\/concentro05_lg.jpg?resize=450%2C270&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"450\" height=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stick David Bowie in there, and you&#8217;ve got your moody sci-fi epic half made.<\/p>\n<p>For more details, see articles by the Register&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2007\/03\/26\/rackable_concentro\/\">Ashlee Vance<\/a> and IT Jungle&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itjungle.com\/breaking\/bn032607-story02.html\">Timothy Prickett Morgan<\/a>. Prickett Morgan notes that Concentro comes equipped with LoJack, just in case some meth-addled kid decides to hook it to the back of his Ram Charger and go for a joyride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8211; if Flash Gordon had a computer, it would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}