Currently in the late prototype phase, it is a pre-configured, fully contained datacenter service.

Sun Microsystems, a provider of technology in servers, storage, software and services, today unveiled Project Blackbox, a systems innovation designed to reset datacenter economics.

Project Blackbox packages compute, storage and network infrastructure, along with high-efficiency power and cooling into modular units based on standard shipping containers. The Project Blackbox prototype is designed to be deployed anytime, anywhere.
It offers quick web 2.0 build-outs, brings computing resources to web 2.0 companies that have a need for datacenter space, advanced military applications.

Project Blackbox is a pre-configured, fully contained datacenter, optimized for maximum density, performance and efficiency, and complete recyclability, claims the company.

"Just about every CIO and startup i meet says they're crippled by datacenter energy and space constraints, today's solutions are clearly failing to meet the needs of web 2.0, rather than trying to improve upon today's datacenter, designed for people babysitting computers, Project Blackbox starts from the world's adopted industry standard, the shipping container, and asks, how can we create modular, lights-out datacenters from this base?, The answer with one-hundredth of the initial cost, one-fifth the cost per square foot, and with 20 percent more power efficiency, we can deliver an immense multiple of capacity and capability anywhere on earth," said Jonathan Schwartz, CEO and President, Sun Microsystems.