Billions of humans are using connected services, social networks and data sharing softwares every day. The increasing demand of technology is pushing Internet and Cloud Service Providers to build new, bigger datacenters every year.

Even if major IT players are doing tremendous progress within datacenter efficiency, installations are still huge. Datacenters require a lot of power to run and cool down computers. Moreover, they have a strong impact on the environment.

This is why we decided to create RuggedPOD.

RuggedPOD is a revolutionary modular computer chassis built in aluminium and filled up with organic dielectric oil. The electronic components go directly inside the oil. It doesn’t require any active cooling solutions, like air conditioners or humidity controllers. Its cooling technology is simply open air!

We designed RuggedPOD to limit as much as possible datacenter wastes and costs by reaching:

• a Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of 1;
  
• a Water Usage Effectiveness (WUE) of 0;
  
• an optimal Carbon Usage Effectiveness (CUE) with energy harvesting;
  
• a fast and easy deployment of critical computing resources.
  

RuggedPOD achieved all these goals thanks to a 2 years R&D program.

RuggedPOD in 6 Sentences

1) It doesn’t need any active cooling solution.

• No air conditioning
  
• No water usage or humidity control
  

2) You can use it everywhere.
RuggedPOD works in deserts, high humidity jungles, countryside fields, roofs, as long as you don’t expose it to direct sunlight.

3) It’s eco-friendly.
100% of the electricity brought to RuggedPOD is used by electronic devices. 

4) It’s fast and easy to deploy.
RuggedPOD is adaptive, modular, with easy redeployment and dismantling.

5) It uses standard electronic devices.
RuggedPOD supports Mini and Micro ATX boards and is compatible with Windows, Linux, OpenStack.

6) It’s open.
RuggedPOD is an Open Hardware project, so people can join us in developing the product or simply provide feedback to improve it.

Why a Crowdfunding Campaign

We believe that RuggedPOD will disrupt the cloud computing market, giving to cloud providers the possibility to sell virtual servers at an unbelievable, crazy price and radically reducing the environmental impact of online services.
Our mission is to "get the cloud back outside", building the world's first outdoor datacenter.

Our partner in this adventure will be Enter, a leading European Cloud Provider that runs a public cloud service based on OpenStack called Enter Cloud Suite.
Since cloud technologies and the OpenStack orchestrator allow to build highly reliable services on top of single unreliable components, a new challenge is open for them: build server and datacenter infrastructures using only consumer electronics.

This is why we will build together the first outdoor datacenter using only RuggedPODs, consumer electronics and OpenStack as the cloud software, being able to offer cloud servers at the unbelievable price of 1€ per month!

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