I’m not sure about the use of a container for VAX mini’s. I know certainally the company and places I’ve worked have replaced a football sized amount of VAX’es with emulated “Charon” boxes, which take a couple of racks. Emulation of older technologies (especially with such rock-solid techniques as Charon) make such a system fine.

I do totally agree with your argument on the “easily” stealable DC though - this is my theory as to why the containerised DC’s will have limited scope in permanant deployements.

I can however see them being used in DR scenarios as a valid scenario. If for example you have a major fire alarm failure, and thus soaked DC, a DC in a box is a perfectly great system to get back on the road quickly. Patch the container to comms, and start reinstall, then slowly relocate the new DC inside once its dried out. One container could easily contain enough storage, network and server capacity to accomodate a mid-large (but not enterprise) sized business I would imagine - and key point is a container can be moved quickly coast to coast (in US), or in most cases under a day in the UK. So you don’t have to move an entire IT staff to a DR site some 100+ miles away to do a rebuild - this is better for the staff (and their familys) - and also in costs, as in a large business the hotel and living expenses of staff in a real disaster would be quite large (of course this not covering for complete loss of site - in which case the savings in this matter are obviously non-present).

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