Sun Microsystems
is 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.