Sun Modular Datacenter Fuels Momentum With New Customer Wins In Manufacturing, Healthcare, HPC And TelcoProject Blackbox Now Available as Sun Modular Datacenter S20, Design Innovation Changes Economics of Datacenter Expansion; New Sun Services Simplify Deployment and Management of Sun Modular Datacenter SANTA CLARA, CA January 29, 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced new customers and product availability for Sun Modular Datacenter (Sun MD) S20, widely known as Project Blackbox. These new implementations for Hansen Transmissions, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre (UMCN) a second unit at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) and Mobile TeleSystems OJSC (MTS), highlight the global demand for Sun MD and the broad applicability of a virtualized, modular datacenter housed in an enhanced 20' shipping container. Sun also announced a new Sun MD Suite of Services to support Sun MD deployment from site preparation to installation and testing, as well as integration of Sun MD into existing IT infrastructures.
Sun MD, the world's first virtualized datacenter, has generated tremendous customer interest. In the last year, it has visited 73 cities on 4 continents and been toured by more than 12,000 customers and partners. Sun MD leverages Sun's design innovation to engineer out complexity and provide a high-density, energy efficient and rapidly deployable solution to meet datacenter expansion and mobility requirements. Capable of 18 teraflops of compute performance or 3 petabytes of disk capacity in a heterogenous environment Sun MD is deployable in one-tenth the time it takes to design, build and deploy a typical brick and mortar datacenter, at a fraction of the cost. Sun MD, with its innovative watercooled design, also delivers 40 percent lower cooling costs, independent of payload, as compared to a typical datacenter. More information on Sun MD is available at: http://www.sun.com/sunmd. Sun Modular Datacenter S20 Attracts Broad Range of Customers
Hansen Transmissions "In planning for Hansen Transmissions' expansion in India, we considered building a new datacenter ourselves, but determined we needed to be able to offer IT services while the plant was under construction. Sun Modular Datacenter S20 is a great solution for us -- cost effective and easy-to deploy," said Marnix Maes, Hansen’s director of IT. "Using Sun Modular Datacenter, we'll be able to offer IT services in a semi-finished factory and start seeing ROI almost immediately. We also expect to use the same model to support our expansion in other countries."
Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre (UMCN) "Sun's Modular Datacenter S20 is a smart solution for rapid, easy deployment of very high-density computing. Sun MD allowed us to not only solve for our growing compute demands almost immediately, but UMCN has also gained significant cost savings in not having to power up an additional datacenter," said John van de Loo, Manager Services, UMCN. "Sun has really thought through the power and heat exchange requirements for the maximum payload Sun MD can hold, and this modular datacenter really runs as advertised."
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) "It is very exciting to have Sun Modular Datacenter S20 here at our center because of its simplicity. Every organization, whether it is a physics lab or a financial institution, is going to be faced with the same problem of running out of datacenter support resources. The chief benefit is this has allowed us to increase our data processing and computing capacity faster - by a factor of three, which we couldn't have done with any other way accessible to us," said Richard Mount, Director of Computing Services, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. "Sun Modular Datacenter helped us answer the very real challenge of how to scale up computing resources quickly, and this has meant the difference between success and failure." Sun Services Simplifies Sun MD Planning, Deployment and Management With the Sun Modular Datacenter Suite of Services, Sun can provide customers a complete turn-key solution for quickly expanding datacenter capacity globally - from preparing the site to installation, testing, and integrating Sun MD in existing IT infrastructures. Key services include:
For more information and a complete listing of new Sun MD services visit: http://www.sun.com/service/sunmd/. Pricing and Availability With today's announcement, Sun MD is available starting at $559,000 (US list price). For more information on the Sun MD go to: http://www.sun.com/sunmd. About Sun Microsystems, Inc.Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- "The Network is the Computer" -- Sun drives network participation through shared innovation, community development and open source leadership. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com. Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, and the Network is the Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and in other countries. Press Release Finder
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