The HP POD takes advantage of the hot aisle/cold aisle layout of the racks to increase the efficiency of the cooling system, HP said.

"Customers want flexible, open data center PODs that mirror the technologies found in their data centers today," said Paul Miller, vice president, marketing for enterprise servers and storage at HP. "HP believes this is a requirement to win in the data center container market and has specifically designed the HP POD to meet customer expectations for modular data centers."