New datacenter solution from Sun, Emerson

BANGALORE,INDIA: Sun Microsystems, an IT service provider and Emerson, a provider in software and engineering solutions, announced on Wednesday the availability of the new Sun Modular Datacenter (Sun MD) D20 paired with Emerson's power and cooling infrastructure for a complete modular datacenter solution designed to meet India's rapidly growing IT requirements.

It is an ideal solution for Indian companies and government agencies looking to rapidly expand their datacenter capacity regardless of location, said a press release.

The solution is built on a standard 20-foot (6.1-meters) shipping container, the Sun MD leverages Sun's design innovation to engineer out complexity and provide a rugged, energy efficient and rapidly deployable solution to meet datacenter expansion and mobility requirements.

It is capable of supporting up to 50 teraflops of compute performance or three petabytes of disk capacity in a heterogeneous environment and is deployable in one-tenth the time it takes to design, build and deploy a typical brick and mortar datacenter, at a fraction of the cost, it added.

R. Vasudevan, vice president, 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.”

He added that they have pioneered the concept of EnergyLogic that has been hugely successful and has helped customers reduce power consumption by almost 40 per cent. According to him, this partnership is aimed at combining the expertise of both Sun Microsystems and Emerson to provide customers with a world-class solution in the datacenter space.

Peter Chadford, director, Sales Development, APAC and Emerging Regions, Sun Microsystems said, “Sun Modular Datacenter radically changes the way in which datacenter 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.”

He added they were pleased to partner with Emerson that 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 datacenter space and need to add capacity rapidly but also for those who want to deploy their IT infrastructure anywhere worldwide.

The Sun Modular Datacenter is an ideal platform for augmenting existing data centers, for datacenter consolidation and migration, for remote deployments, and for business continuity solutions, said a press release.