Sun Eco Innovation

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Eco Innovation Sun's Eco Innovation solutions offer you a clear and actionable path to cut your energy bills and IT environmental impact, helping to transform your technology infrastructure into eco friendly datacenters. It's a simple three-step approach that leads you through Assessing, Optimizing and Virtualizing your infrastructure, using the proven, pre-packaged tools, solutions and methodologies we learned from the redesign of our own datacenters.

Sun's 3-Step Approach to Greening the Datacenter

Take advantage of our proven, straightforward process for gaining energy, space, and cost savings in the datacenter, all while preserving the environment:

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CIO Magazine Webinar: CIOs Get a Green Thumb

Arne Jokela, President and CTO for Fotolog, and Dermot Duggan, Senior Director at Sun Microsystems, explore why and how technology executives should design more energy efficient data centers, and the benefits of doing so.

Sun Eco Podcast Series: Siteworx, Inc.

Sun helps Siteworx improve energy and space efficiency in their datacenter.

NetTalk: Save Money & Resources with Eco Responsible Datacenters

Discusses the ecological impact of today's technologies and how Sun is innovating to drive efficiency and cost savings in the datacenter.

Sun's Energy-Efficient Datacenter
By using best practices in datacenter design and hardware consolidation, Sun was able to cut its its utility bill by over 60% and earn over $1M in rebates. See just how Sun did it in this interactive tour of the Santa Clara, CA facility.

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Greening Our Datacenters

We are working hard to make our datacenters smaller and more energy-efficient so that they will emit less carbon and cost less - without compromising compute capacity or security. And we are sharing the knowledge we learned in this process with you through interactive tours and solution briefs.

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In the Spotlight

Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440
Get the breakthrough performance, eco efficiency, and cost effectiveness of Sun's chip multi-threading (CMT) architecture, along with the scalability and reliability of a traditional midrange system.

Sun BluePrint: Energy Efficient Datacenters
A showcase of how Sun was able to design a Datacenter that facilitates—rather than limit—growth, density, flexibility and rapid change.

CIO2CIO Perspectives: Energy Efficiency
The green tide is coming: pressure builds for an energy efficient data center.

Sun Datacenter Strategy, Design, Build Services
Sun can help consolidate, retrofit or build a new datacenter, based on your specific requirements, leveraging what we learned in our own award-winning datacenter consolidation efforts.

Customer Success Stories

Energy Savings in the Datacenter - Case Studies

Sample case studies are based on customer facility assessments - the issues, the recommendations and the savings.

Internet Archive Chooses Sun Solution to Reduce Costs and Energy Use

The organization invested in Sun products to build a datacenter that can be set up quickly and that significantly reduces space, energy, management, and maintenance needs.

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How Sun Can Help

Sun Eco Innovation solutions can address concerns over rising energy demand, its cost and the impact it has on the environment by helping you to:

  • increase server utilization and efficiency
  • reduce computer room and datacenter cooling requirements
  • minimize power surges and shortages affecting business
  • dispose of old equipment in an environmentally safe way
  • respond in a changing regulatory climate

Energy Efficiency Award
Flex Your Power selected the Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers as the Energy Efficiency winner for the 5th Annual Flex Your Power Awards