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Video: Oracle’s CIO on ‘Project Sequoia’ by ZDNet 's Larry Dignan -- At the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco, Oracle CIO Mark Sunday explains the techniques behind Project Sequoia, the company’s new data center in Utah. By utilizing outside air, hot aisle containment, and independently controlled supercells, he says this will be its most efficient center yet.

Datacenter-in-a-box as a concept has been around for a while. The most popular example of this is Sun's Modular Datacenter S20 . This is a 320 rack unit datacenter literally in a box - a shipping container - that can be used for rapid deployment of a datacenter with greater density than a traditional fixed datacenter. At LinuxWorld 2008 Rackable®Systems showed off their ICE Cube TM Modular Data Center . This has a much higher density than the Sun solution with 28 racks of servers, offering 1400 rack units in all, fitting into a 40' container. The datacenter uses water cooling to reduce costs compared to traditional datacenters. Here are some pictures of the ICE Cube TM :