Date: 26-Nov-2009 URL: www.sun.com/solutions/eco_innovation/benefits.jsp

Sun Eco Innovation

Benefits

Sun's Eco Innovation Initiative can deliver the true potential of your datacenter for dramatic results. At one Sun datacenter, in just 90 days, we reduced our server count from 2,177 to 1,240, but increased compute power by 456 percent and server utilization by as much as 85 percent. We consolidated 738 storage devices to 225, yet increased storage capacity by 244 percent. In total, we decommissioned more than 5,000 servers, storage, and networking devices. As a result, we cut energy costs by over 60 percent, saving roughly $860,000 in the first nine months, and were awarded nearly $1 million in rebates and awards from Silicon Valley Power.

Through this experience, we developed three Sun Eco Ready Kits, so you can benefit too. It's a new day when the "greenest" datacenter is the one that can both save and make you the most money.

3 Simple Steps to Meet Your Goals

Three steps—Assess, Optimize, and Virtualize—can take you to significantly higher datacenter performance while cutting energy use and CO2 emissions. You can get started immediately with our new suite of Sun Eco Ready Kits:

Start reaping the benefits today.

Gain the Most from Your Resources

Get the performance needed to meet your customers' growing demands within your current space/power footprint. About 60 percent of datacenters are out of space, power, or cooling. But Sun can help. Innovative Sun products are designed from inception to be more energy efficient, take up less space, and deliver better datacenter economics.

Sun CoolThreads servers, Netra T2000 server, Sun Fire x64 offerings, and Sun Ray thin clients are some of the most energy efficient systems in their class.
Tape is the most energy efficient solution for data management. We invest in tape technologies while others have abandoned it. Sun's midrange disk products lead in price/performance.
Project Blackbox uses innovative cooling techniques that are at least 40 percent more efficient than those of a traditional datacenter.

Agility as Your Advantage

Worried about having enough space available to add new systems, and the power to run and cool them? Sun's virtualization solutions can help you optimize space, power, and energy savings to get the headroom needed to accommodate growth. Built upon industry-proven technologies, including Solaris 10 Containers and LDoms, Sun's comprehensive virtualization portfolio—desktops, servers, disk, tape—help increase system utilization from the industry's current levels of 5-15 percent to as high as 80 percent. And Sun systems and virtualization technologies have already helped customers to cut power and heating by more than 80 percent, delivered 10x better price/performance, and lowered operating costs by 75%¹. The ROI is huge and savings can add up to millions of dollars annually.

Good for Your Business, Good for Our Planet

You can cut the environmental impact of your datacenter's energy usage with Sun's energy-efficient products starting now. When you're ready to retire old gear, simply return it to Sun for recycling, reuse, or proper disposal. And because Sun products are manufactured with fewer harmful materials and more recyclable components, you'll be able to minimize your environmental impact even more.

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