Sun Microsystems unveils new data center solution

New Delhi : Sun Microsystems and Emerson announced the availability of
the new Sun Modular Datacenter (Sun MD) D20 paired with Emerson's power and
cooling infrastructure for a complete modular data center solution designed to
meet India's rapidly growing IT requirements.

Based on a standard 20-foot shipping container, the Sun MD leverages Sun's
design innovation to meet data center expansion and mobility requirements.
Capable of supporting up to 50 teraflops of compute performance or three
petabytes of disk capacity in a heterogeneous environment, the Sun MD is
deployable in one-tenth the time it takes to design, build and deploy a typical
brick and mortar data center, at a fraction of the cost.

Sun has partnered with Emerson Network Power to launch the Sun Modular
datacenter in India. Speaking on the occasion, R Vasudevan, VP-Enterprise
Solutions, Emerson Network Power India said, "At Emerson, we are committed
to provide energy efficient integrated solutions for power and cooling that will
help our customers reduce operating cost without compromising reliability. We
pioneered the concept of EnergyLogic that has been hugely successful and has
helped customers reduce power consumption by almost 40 percent."

Vasu further added, "This partnership is aimed at combining the expertise of
both Sun Microsystems and Emerson to provide customers with a world class
solution in the data center space."

Peter Chadford, Director-Sales Development, APAC and Emerging Regions, Sun
Microsystems said, "Sun Modular Datacenter radically changes the way in
which data center capacity is deployed. In emerging markets there are many
companies who are experiencing explosive IT growth, but are unable to meet
demand due to infrastructure limitations. We are pleased to partner with
Emerson, which is a technology leader in business critical continuity space
worldwide to offer the Sun MD as an appropriate solution not only for customers
who are out of data center space and need to add capacity rapidly but also for
those who want to deploy their IT infrastructure anywhere worldwide-or be able
to redeploy to new locations as requirements change.