NEW DELHI, INDIA: 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."