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Eco Responsibility
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We already produce a line of servers that are more energy efficient than most, if not all, of our competitors' products. We're also determined to develop increasingly energy-efficient yet powerful processors and expand their use throughout our server lines.
Our UltraSPARC T1 processor with CoolThreads technology uses less than half the power of standard processors — just 72 watts, or about the same as a single incandescent light bulb. As a result, our energy-efficient servers provide the same performance as a rack of standard servers, while using less energy, generating less heat and taking up less space. Along with the environmental benefits, our customers see cost savings on power, cooling, and real estate.
Because of all this, it's not surprising that customer demand for our energy-efficient servers continues to grow. In fiscal 2007, the revenue recorded for the Sun Fire and Sun SPARC Enterprise servers with CoolThreads technology more than doubled to approximately $550 million. And our customers are pleased with the results, as these testimonials show.
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"We're so impressed with the performance and cost of the Sun Fire T2000 that we're adopting it as our standard platform for all UNIX-based applications. There is no better choice for an organization like ours, which is facing unlimited growth while trying to reduce operating costs. It's a great solution for the budget and the environment."
Ed Molina
Manager of Strategic Services
City of Henderson, Nevada
"With the Sun Fire T2000 servers, we'll be able to replace our current servers at a ratio of 4:1 while doubling our performance. And if that's not enough, it looks like we'll be able to cut our energy use from 5.2 to 0.35 kWh/hour. That's a factor of 14. Amazing!"
Matthias Schorer
Chief Architect
Fiduci IT AG
"If I can save $4000 a month, that's someone else I can hire to improve our service to our customers."
Joyent provides email and storage services. They saw immediate benefits from moving to UltraSPARC T1 processor-based systems. With their customer base doubling in each of the past two years, Joyent needed to increase capacity without increasing their poweruse. They consolidated a number of older Intel-based Dell servers onto 20 Sun CoolThreads servers. Today, the company is saving more than $1000 per server per year in power and cooling costs and receiving an additional $1000 per year in rebates from their utility provider."
Joyent provides email and storage services. They saw immediate benefits from moving to UltraSPARC T1 processor-based systems. With their customer base doubling in each of the past two years, Joyent needed to increase capacity without increasing their power usage. They consolidated a number of older Intel-based Dell servers onto 20 Sun CoolThreads servers. Today, the company is saving more than $1000 per server per year in power and cooling costs and receiving an additional $1000 per year in rebates from their utility provider.
David Young
CEO
Joyent
System Power Calculators
As part of our commitment to transparency, we provide power calculators for a number of our products. These enable customers to see for themselves how much energy different configurations of our products will use. Our goal is to have power calculators available on our Web site for all Sun systems by the start of fiscal 2009.
Rebates
The first generation of Sun energy-efficient servers, the Sun Fire T1000 and T2000, continues to qualify for Pacific Gas and Electric's (PG&E) first-of-its-kind rebate program for companies using energy-efficient servers. BC Hydro, a utility serving British Columbia, Canada, now also includes these servers on their list of energy-efficient products.
We believe that rebate programs offer a powerful economic incentive for both customers and utility providers to promote energy-efficient choices for datacenters. We're continuing to work with several utility providers to develop compelling rebate programs for our mutual customers.
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Partnerships
We're working with partners, competitors, governments, and others to solve our industry's challenge of creating more energy-efficient and sustainable IT infrastructures. Here are a few examples:
- Sun is a board member of The Green Grid, a global consortium seeking to improve energy efficiency in datacenters around the world. The consortium's work includes research, standards development, publishing studies, and education. Its goal is to promote the adoption of energy-efficiency standards, processes, measurements, and technologies.
- As a sponsoring member of the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, a group committed to bringing together industry, consumer, and conservation organizations to increase the energy efficiency of computers, we commit to producing products that meet specified energy-efficiency targets and to purchasing energy-efficient products.
- In fiscal 2007, we began a partnership with the University of Colorado to develop a full accounting system for the energy saved through our Open Work program. The study will investigate energy used in the office versus energy used by those working remotely. Once completed, in fiscal 2008, we will know just how much energy Open Work saves us.
We also support:
- Business Council on Climate Change
- CBI Climate Change Task Force
- Confederation of British Industry (CBI) Environmental Panel
- Connected Organizations for a Responsible Economy (CORE)
- Corporate Leaders Group (CLG) on Climate Change
- Electronic Industry Code of Conduct (EICC)
- Forum for the Future UK
- Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI)
- Transforming Energy & Markets (TEAM)
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