Emerson Network Power and Sun Microsystems Inc have announced a global sales alliance that will help provide businesses and organisations with roadmaps and technologies to increase the productivity and energy efficiency of their datacenters. Globally, datacenter energy consumption is driven by businesses’ demand for greater computing capacity and increased IT centralisation. When combined with increasing global electricity prices, the financial implications are significant.
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, it is estimated that U.S. corporations and public agencies spent USD4.5 billion in 2006 to power their datacenters, and national datacenter energy consumption could nearly double in the next five years to more than USD7.4 billion annually, making datacenter efficiency a leading priority for customers. The power and cooling infrastructure that supports IT equipment in datacenters can account for more than 50 per cent of total data center energy consumption.
Sun's datacenter efficiency consultants will work directly with Emerson’s local Liebert power, cooling and services specialists throughout the world to assess, develop and maintain solutions to a variety of customer datacenter problems. The companies will deliver not only the plans but also the products and services for improved data center productivity and efficiency.
Dr. Robert W. Leland, director, Computing and Network Services Center at Sandia National Laboratories, said, “Right away, we recognised the great value of our association with Sun and Emerson Network Power, and we believe that our collaboration on a new and highly advanced HPC (High-Performance Computing) solution will provide leading-edge performance to our customers with substantially less environmental impact and much lower lifetime cost than the other options we had considered.”
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