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Sun's 'portable' Blackbox data center
Created: 10/17/2006
Video description: Sun Microsystems' CEO Jonathan Schwartz showed off the company's new "Project Blackbox" in a Menlo Park, Calif., parking lot Tuesday. Sun says the gear is not only preassembled, but it's tough and arrives ready to run.

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