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Reduced IT Costs Have a Real Impact on the Bottom Line

“Greening Your Data Center: The Real Deal,” an article on eWeek.com by Matthew Sarrel, reports on the interesting current phenomenon in IT, the “greening” of the data center. Striving after ever bigger market share is only part of the motive in this game, Sarrel writes. The other elements involve being able to offer customers both reduced carbon footprints and reduced IT costs as well.

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An Opinion is Offered on Expected Growth Areas

In 2009, multitudes of IT departments had to reassess their datacenters, and many are making enlightening discoveries, like air cooling can be sufficient in keeping systems in optimum condition or 15-30 percent of what is consuming power in their datacenters can be turned off with no harmful effect. So what does this type of complete and thorough datacenter inventorying translate to for the IT industry in 2010? ServerWatch’s Andy Patrizio offers his opinion.

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An Intimate Conversation with Sun’s Datacenter Experts

A multi-city tour is planned to discuss datacenter design. The half-day event offers a presentation and panel discussion with information on Sun’s experiences in building some of the world’s greenest datacenters along with tips on building better datacenter efficiencies. Registration is currently underway.

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Ranks the 500 Largest U.S. Companies

Newsweek along with environmental researchers KLD Research & Analytics, Trucost, and CorporateRegister.com recently ranked the largest U.S. companies based on their actual environmental performance, policies, and reputation. Sun came in at number 14 in the list of 500 in Newsweek’s inaugural green rankings for 2009.

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By Uptime Institute’s Global Green 100 and Greenpeace

The Uptime Institute 2009 Global Green 100 is a list of companies demonstrating an integral commitment to and progress toward reducing their energy consumption and carbon footprint. Sun is one of the 100 recognized this year. Greenpeace also is honoring Sun as the IT leader in its Climate Leadership Challenge.

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McKinsey Report Suggests It Can Be Done in 3-4 Years

There are several steps companies can take to improve the energy efficiency of their data centers in short order, writes Darrell Jordan-Smith in his blog “Greening the Data Center.” Given that the demand for data center capacity will likely continue to increase at a dramatic rate, cutting energy costs is an essential consideration, he notes.

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Sun has approved Active Power, Inc.’s PowerHouse system as a complimentary solution to the Sun Modular Datacenter S20. Active Power provides efficient, reliable and green critical power solutions and uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems to enable business continuity in the event of power disturbances.

Its Powerhouse system is based upon the company’s flywheel-based UPS system and offers a standby generator, chiller and switchgear. It is ideal for containerization due to its rugged design and ability to operate in wide ambient temperature ranges (0 to 40 degrees Celsius). The company claims PowerHouse can save customers up to 45 percent in total cost of ownership due to its high-efficiency and pre-packaged system design.

“Energy consumption and facility space continue to be pain points for data center operators,” said Michael Markides, analyst at IMS Research. “The challenge lies in how to help organizations reduce their energy consumption with green products that don’t consume a lot of space, but that also carry low capital and operating expenses. Green solutions that can offer these attributes along with scalability will continue to be sought after from end users, particularly from those organizations that are building new data centers.”

More information about Active Power’s PowerHouse system and its compatibility with the Sun Modular Datacenter can be found at http://www.activepower.com/solutions/powerhouse/.