Proof-of-Concept Testing

Internet Initiative Japan adapts its green data center design with US market trend of ambient air cooling and shifts into proof of concept ahead of commercializing new container data center product. ...

... "They will build a modular data center with a cooling system that directly uses outside air, and operate it for one year starting in February 2010, with the aim of commercialization. This will be the first data center in Japan with a container unit cooled all year round by outside air. " ...

Via Internet Initiative Japan: Proof-of-Concept Data Center

Proof of Concept

University proof of concept centers are seeing success from mentoring and collaborating on the commercialization of emerging technology projects. ...

... "Results thus far suggest that the proof of concept center is a good model. By early 2008, the two centers combined had given out nearly $10 million in grants, producing twenty-six spinout companies that raised an additional $159 million in private investment. And the process is useful even when it demonstrates that a research idea will not be viable. " ...

Via The Kauffman Foundation: Proof of Concept Centers