Eco Responsibility

In October 2006, Sun clearly demonstrated our drive to create and deliver innovative, eco responsible, sustainable computing solutions with the introduction of the Sun Modular Datacenter, a radical new concept for the future of network infrastructure. The Sun Modular Datacenter — a scalable datacenter built into a standard shipping container — uses state-of-the-art cooling, monitoring, and power distribution systems and takes up significantly less physical space than a traditional datacenter. Together, these features will allow Sun customers to realize significant cost and environmental savings associated with operating their datacenters, not to mention enhanced computing performance.

Aside from the business benefits of rapidly building a datacenter or enabling increased datacenter capacity without having to undertake the cost and complexity of building a new class-A facility, the Sun Modular Datacenter also offers enormous potential for developing or disaster regions. Governments and global relief organizations could leverage the Sun Modular Datacenter's easy management and support for up to 10,000 simultaneous desktop users — without administrators — to bring computing to remote regions or closer to impacted regions to aid in disaster relief efforts.