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Sun Eco Innovation

Here's a collection of resources to help you identify, measure, evaluate, and eliminate inefficiencies throughout your IT infrastructure. These are our best "green resources" to help you save a tree and save a buck at the same time.

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Sun Eco Podcast Series: Siteworx, Inc.

Sun helps Siteworx improve energy and space efficiency in their datacenter.

Sun's Energy-Efficient Datacenter
By using best practices in datacenter design and hardware consolidation, Sun was able to cut its its utility bill by over 60% and earn over $1M in rebates. See just how Sun did it in this interactive tour of the Santa Clara, CA facility.

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Tools

power calculators

Sun Power Calculators provide guidance for estimating Sun systems' real-world power consumption.

SWaP (Space, Watts and Performance) Metric
Calculate the impact that a system will have in your datacenter by accounting for its power, air conditioning, and space requirements.

High Performance Computing Calculator
Get estimates for price, space and power consumption for your high-end HPC solution.

Virtualization Resources
Range of free resources and tools on virtualization and consolidation.

White Papers

CIO2CIO Perspectives: Energy Efficiency
The green tide is coming: pressure builds for an energy efficient data center.

Simply Green
Published by the Center for Digital Government, this paper addresses steps the public sector can take toward integrating greater efficiencies and sustainability into its IT operations.

Eco Computing for Government
Learn how Governments can leverage the expertise of Sun and our partners to help reduce the energy consumption, IT footprint, and operating costs of their datacenters.

Datacenter Reference Guide
A general overview on how to build an Eco-friendly datacenter applying Sun's best practices and energy efficient technologies.

Sun Blade 6000 Modular System Power and Cooling Efficiency
Describes the competitive power and cooling efficiencies of the Sun Blade 6000 Modular System over similar products in the market today.

IDC Virtualization
Learn how virtualization can be used as a tool for consolidation as well as a means to reduce space and power requirements, and more recently, a way to bring business continuity to more of the organization's IT infrastructure.

Reference Architecture

Sun's Data Warehouse Reference Architecture for Structured and Unstructured Data
Integrated solution that defines the components needed to support over 1 PB of source data that uses 90 percent less storage, consumes 91 percent less energy and generates less heat and carbon dioxide than conventional solutions.

Blogs

Dave Douglas Eco Responsibility Blog
Learn more about Sun's approach to Eco Responsibility and get Dave's take on market trends and opportunities around sustainability issues.

Customer Successes

Sun's customers are saving energy, saving money, and saving the planet.


Sun BluePrints

Energy Efficiency Strategies: Sun Server Virtualization Technology
Virtualization technology is a key to transforming an IT organization's server, storage, and network devices into a shared, global pool of resources. This can help reduce space, power, and cooling requirements.

The Sun BluePrints Guide to Solaris Containers: Virtualziation in the Solaris Operating System
Provides an overview of the resource management concepts and technologies that comprise Solaris Containers, and explains how to create, use, and integrate Solaris Containers within a system and infrastructure.

Beginners Guide to LDoms: Understanding and Deploying Logical Domains
This Sun BluePrint is intended to assist the reader in gaining an understanding of how to easily and effectively deploy Sun's Logical Domains, or LDoms, technology.

Newsletter

Clipper Report - Tape and Disk Costs
Learn what it really costs to power the devices.

Solution Brief

Sun Mainframe Storage Solutions - Unconditionally Green
The amount of resources it takes to store your data is continually rising. Fortunately, so is Sun’s commitment to developing the latest, most eco-friendly mainframe storage solutions.

Brochure

Being Ecologically Sound Makes Economic Sense
Read how Sun's energy-efficient and eco-responsible technologies, methodologies, and solutions really do contribute to your business' bottom line - and to the environment.

Greening our Datacenters

We are working hard to make our datacenters smaller and more energy-efficient so that they will emit less carbon and cost less - without compromising compute capacity or security. And we are sharing the knowledge we learned in this process with you through interactive tours and solution briefs.

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