Sun Modular Datacenter

Rapid Deployment

Deploy a Sun Modular Datacenter in 1/10th the time it takes to build a traditional brick & mortar datacenter. Because the Sun MD is a containerized form-factor, it deploys by plane, ship, or truck anywhere in the world, within weeks!

Not only does this give customers unparalleled flexibility it also gives them greater control over their IT assets instead of having to outsource the hardware or applications.

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Game-changing Economics

The Sun MD enables customers to reduce financial commitments on new datacenters by allowing them to purchase new capacity incrementally.

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Mobility Enables Flexibility

The Sun MD is a perfect solution for remote areas or urban settings with space restrictions. It gives you the flexibility to deploy and relocate according to changing business needs. You can even deploy the Sun MD as a research and development platform and then relocate it to another site as a disaster recovery solution. The possibilities are endless.

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High-density Computing

The Sun MD packs a lot of punch into a small footprint. At only 160 sq ft, each Sun MD hosts a 12.5kW rack for network and system management equipment and seven 25kW-capable racks for servers, storage, or other equipment. This is 4-times denser per rack than a typical datacenter. Which makes it an ideal platform for the new generations of blade servers. The high power and cooling efficiency of the Sun MD make it possible to help reduce clutter and chaos in the datacenter by serving as the ultimate consolidation and virtualization platform.

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Eco Value

The Sun MD makes good sense ecologically and economically. It can help reduce CO2 emissions by over 1459 metric tons per platform over a five year deployment, which can help businesses meet new, more stringent environmental regulations.

Thanks to its unique closed-loop water cooling system, the Sun MD is more than 40% more energy efficient at cooling than a typical datacenter. With high efficiency water cooling in a small enclosed area, much less energy is consumed per compute unit than in an air-conditioned datacenter. Energy costs can be reduced even more by locating the unit near less expensive power sources.

Because of its commitment to eco responsibility and reducing eWaste, Sun Microsystems will take back any unit and its contents, from anywhere in the world, and reuse, recycle or dispose of it in an environmentally responsible way.