[1]A look at the Amazon Perdix container, included in a presentation at Amazon Technology Day.
Last week we noted a presentation from
Amazon Web Services that discussed the company’s use of
modular data centers [2] to deploy server capacity for its cloud computing operation. Amazon’s latest modular deployment has been noticed by local media in central Oregon.
On Saturday
The Hermiston Herald [3] reported that Amazon subsidiary Vadata has deployed six modules in Umatilla, Oregon. The paper describes the facility as “innocuous, bland structures — a row of six shipping containers gussied up with a few doors and vents. ” That description matches images of a modular design called
Perdix that Amazon’s James Hamilton discussed earlier this month at a technology open house.
Amazon.com joins major cloud builders Google, Microsoft and Yahoo in embracing factory-built components as a strategy to reduce the cost and deployment time for data center capacity. The Oregon construction is part of a larger effort by Amazon to prepare for a significant expansion of its data center capacity to accommodate the growth of its cloud computing business.
Amazon.com has submitted plans to build a similar facility with six modules in the Port of Morrow, and also has also resumed work at a site in Boardman, Oregon where the company
bought land in 2008 [4].
Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.
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[1] Image: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/amazon-perdix.jpg
[2] modular data centers: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/06/09/a-look-inside-amazons-data-centers/
[3] The Hermiston Herald: http://www.hermistonherald.com/opinion/woelk-data-center-could-be-big-boost-for-umatilla/article_a6c9b2e6-99a7-11e0-9664-001cc4c03286.html
[4] bought land in 2008: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/11/07/amazon-building-large-data-center-in-oregon/
[5] Rich Miller: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/author/richm/
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