Sun Microsystemsis inviting IT
directors to visit its new datacentres in the US, UK and India,
which have been designed to lower the company's power
consumption.
Sun has estimated that the
company's
datacentre efforts will save the planet nearly 4,100 tons of
CO2 per year and trim 1% from Sun's total
carbon footprint.
Sun Microsystems CIO, Bob Worrall, who is responsible for
reducing Sun's corporate datacenter energy usage by 20% in 2008,
said "Most CIOs do not even see an energy bill, which makes little
sense given that datacenters can consume a significant portion of a
company's total energy draw."
Dave Douglas, vice-president of Eco Responsibility for Sun
Microsystems, said, "We are opening the doors on our new global
datacenters today to show what is possible in a relatively short
time frame and because we believe strongly that sharing is the path
to a greener world."
As part of the company's energy-efficiency drive, Sun announced
a suite of programmes under its Eco Innovation Initiative, designed
to help businesses design more energy efficient datacenters and
save money.
Ian Brown, senior analyst at Ovum, said, "For most large
enterprises, running power-efficient datacentres is not a core
competency for infrastructure services providers it should be." He
believed business users could benefit by outsourcing responsibility
for their data centre's carbon footprint to an IT services
providers, who would have the expertise to design and implement
energy efficient IT.