| Santa Clara 21 August 2007
Sun Microsystems has publicly unveiled three active, new datacentres in Santa Clara, California; Blackwater, U.K.; and Bangalore, India. Put into operation between January and June of this year, all three datacentres were built using breakthrough designs and next-generation energy efficient systems, power and cooling. Sun estimates that the company's datacentre efforts will save the planet nearly 4100 tons of CO2 per year and trim 1% from Sun's total carbon footprint.
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The Santa Clara datacentre is the largest of the three datacentres at 76,000 square feet. Phase One of the Santa Clara project began with a hardware consolidation and refresh project that took three months, increased compute power by more than 450% and is expected to save $1.1 million in energy costs a year. Accomplished in an aggressive 12 months, Phase Two involved designing the Santa Clara space and installing the new hardware. Sun estimates that Phase Two will yield an additional 30% savings in energy costs. Silicon Valley Power, a local utility company, has recognized the breakthrough efficiencies and design of Sun's Santa Clara datacentre by giving Sun nearly $1 million in rebates and awards.
"There are many projects, big and small, that businesses can begin today to make a difference. It doesn't have to be complicated and the ROI can be larger than you'd imagine", stated Dave Douglas, Vice President of Eco Responsibility for Sun Microsystems. "We're opening the doors on our new global datacentres today to show what's possible in a relatively short time frame and because we believe strongly that sharing is the path to a greener world."
Through its efforts in California, the UK and India, Sun has reduced 267,000 square feet of datacentre space worldwide into approximately 133,000. Today, Sun will hold an event for customers at the Santa Clara facility to share best practices from the company's global datacentre efforts. Building on Sun's heritage of sharing and open source, the company will post key learnings from the project free of charge to help other companies green their own datacentres and be kinder to the planet.
"New standards in datacentre design and management are not only good for the environment, but they are also good for a company's bottom line", stated Sun Microsystems CIO Bob Worrall, who is responsible for reducing Sun's corporate datacenter energy usage by 20% in fiscal year 2008. "Most CIOs don't even see an energy bill, which makes little sense given that datacenters can consume a significant portion of a company's total energy draw. By working together, CIOs and CFOs can direct their efforts to successfully squeeze 'green' into - and out of - the datacentre."
The three new datacentres 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 also launched a suite of programmes and solutions under its Eco Innovation Initiative to help customers architect more energy efficient datacentres and save money. |
