Comments on: A Closer Look At Rackable’s CloudRack http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/10/31/a-closer-look-at-rackables-cloudrack/ News and analysis about data centers, cloud computing, managed hosting and disaster recovery Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:24:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: David Lee http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/10/31/a-closer-look-at-rackables-cloudrack/comment-page-1/#comment-1555 David Lee Sat, 01 Nov 2008 01:57:05 +0000 http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/?p=4422#comment-1555 @Chris Sears It's definitely a lot more storage than most would think they'd need in a single chassis, but it does has a number of good applications: -Large scale hadoop clusters -map reduce clusters -web host farms -distributed file or iscsi architectures @Chris Sears

It’s definitely a lot more storage than most would think they’d need in a single chassis, but it does has a number of good applications:

-Large scale hadoop clusters
-map reduce clusters
-web host farms
-distributed file or iscsi architectures

]]> By: Chris Sears http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/10/31/a-closer-look-at-rackables-cloudrack/comment-page-1/#comment-1548 Chris Sears Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:33:42 +0000 http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/?p=4422#comment-1548 That seems like way more local storage than is really needed for most cloud computing nodes. It looks like you could take out 4 drives and fit a whole second motherboard in there for 2 servers in one box sharing a power supply like the Supermicro Twin. Seems like there would be more demand for something like that in this sort of naked server / Google-style rack form factor. That seems like way more local storage than is really needed for most cloud computing nodes.

It looks like you could take out 4 drives and fit a whole second motherboard in there for 2 servers in one box sharing a power supply like the Supermicro Twin. Seems like there would be more demand for something like that in this sort of naked server / Google-style rack form factor.

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