September 24, 2007—Sun Microsystems recently announced a comprehensive suite of programs and solutions to help customers make their data centers more eco responsible, and opened three new energy-efficient data centers in the US, UK, and India.
Sun says its Eco Innovation Initiative leverages the company’s technology innovations and helps customers architect more energy-efficient, eco-responsible datacenters, and save money. Joining Sun’s award-winning SunFire servers, Solaris Operating System(OS), inventive throughput computing technology, and storage technology, the new Eco Innovation Initiative adds Sun Eco Ready Kits and a suite of Eco services designed to empower IT departments worldwide to utilize smart, energy-saving technology.
Among the tools announced are three Eco Ready Kits: The Sun Eco Assessment Kit, The Sun Eco Optimization Kit, and The Sun Eco Virtualization Kit. These Kits are designed to assist customers in creating an energy-efficient data center while saving money in the process.
In addition, the new Sun Eco Services Suite is designed to help customers improve their data center energy utilization and tune their cooling air distribution and other infrastructure systems that can impact both operational costs and service levels. The suite includes: The Sun Eco Assessment Service for Datacenter, Basic; The Sun Eco Assessment Service for Datacenter, Advanced; The Sun Eco Cooling Efficiency Service for Datacenter; and The Sun Eco Optimization Service for Datacenter.
Sun also unveiled three active, new datacenters in Santa Clara, CA; Blackwater, UK; and Bangalore, India. Put into operation between January and June of this year, all three datacenters were reportedly built using breakthrough designs and next-generation, energy-efficient systems, power, and cooling.
The new datacenters run exclusively on Sun’s line of energy-efficient products, including Sun Fire T1000/T2000 servers, Sun’s x64 servers, and the Solaris Operating System. Sun estimates that the company’s datacenter efforts will save nearly 4,100 tons of CO2 per year and trim 1% from Sun’s total carbon footprint.
Sun plans to share best practices from the company’s global datacenter efforts, posting key lessons learned from the project free of charge online to help other companies green their own datacenters and lessen their impact on the planet.
