Data Center Container

Data center container, also called as data center-in-a-box or modular data center, is a method of deploying data centers that is designed to add data center capacity and to reduce expenses incurred out of an organization’s cooling and power consumption. A container can be referred as a modular, portable self-contained environment that can easily be relocated and installed in parallel with others to build large modular data center. Also, installation of a data center container is faster than a traditional data center.

Even though the basic model of a data center container is a fully functional system; for advance benefits, however, you can add suitable option to the basic version. Today, data center containers are designed keeping costs, quick installation and improved energy performance in mind. Unlike, the earlier generation data center designs provided limited energy efficiency benefits. The designs were complicated by several infrastructure support requirements that includes use of water for cooling system.

Popularized by vendors – Sun Microsystems and Rackable Systems- data center container is considered to be part of the modern datacenter.