Sun Microsystems consortium in ''eco innovation initiative in with AMD, APC - MGE, Hitachi Data Systems and Wipro

The alliance will edify customers on technology infrastructure, practices and methodologies that can help them cut costs, use less space, improve performance and efficiency and "green" their business on their own.

APC-MGE, a leading provider of global, end-to-end solutions for real-time infrastructure has been a longstanding proponent of an energy efficient environment. It will provide know-how of data centre infrastructure architecture as a potential solution to address power and cooling issues, wherein AMD will offer its advanced energy efficient computing technologies which will help customers reduce business energy costs substantially.

Hitachi''s breakthrough green storage solutions deliver improved utilization of storage assets, which significantly reduce power consumption and improve IT efficiencies within the data center. Wipro''s expertise in system integration and consulting will provide customers options of scalability in the same footprint and help translate technology into business solutions.

As part of the company''s ongoing commitment to greening its global operations, Sun Microsystems also publicly unveiled an active, new data centre in Bangalore. Put into operation in February of this year, this data centre along with two others Sun built in Santa Clara, California and in Blackwater, UK, was built using breakthrough designs and next-generation energy efficient systems, power and cooling.

Sun estimates that the company''s data centre efforts have already saved the planet nearly 4,100 tons of CO2 per year and trimmed 1 per cent from Sun''s total carbon footprint. The new data centres house Sun''s line of energy efficient products, including Sun Fire(TM) T1000/T2000 servers, Sun''s x64 servers and Solaris(TM) Operating System.

Through this data centre, Sun has reduced 10,400 square feet of data centre space into approximately 5,096 square feet, saved nearly $100K in utility costs in first 6 months and reduced power consumption by 17 per cent. This combined with the worldwide consolidation efforts have reduced the companies data centre portfolio by over 200,000 square feet resulting in millions of opex reductions.