Sun Blackbox appeared in October last year when Sun presented its new mobile server concept. Blackbox is just what the name says; a big black box in the form of a freight container filled with the latest server technology. Sun’s idea was to create a mobile server hall which could easily be transported between locations and then it’s hard to find a better format than a freight container. Sun Blackbox is still a bit of a project in testing, but Sun claims that the response have been very positive and that it is planning on expanding the concept to a more commercial product.
At Ars Technica they’ve published an article about Sun Blackbox after being offered a visit to the mobile server hall. There is no doubt that this is an interesting concept and we’re curious to see how Blackbox will perform on the commercial market as it is expected to arrive in June. The price of Sun Blackbox will be somewhere around $300,000 to $500,000, excluding the servers and trailer.
