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Power Dense Data Centers Seek Thermal Controls

Explore Data Center Knowledge (May 3 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing , Servers

...ciency that enables you to activate the appropriate cooling action needed sooner rather than later. Sun Microsystems reported data center managers can save four percent in energy costs for every degree of upward chan... (Read Full Article)

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CIOs Reduce Data Center Costs Through Power and Cooling Efficiency

Explore itbusinessedge.com (Feb 1 2012) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing , Servers

...st data centers operate within wide bands of cooling ranges because they estimate thermal profiles. Sun Microsystems reported that data center managers can save 4 percent in energy costs for every degree of upward ch... (Read Full Article)

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Oracle learns the dark side of hardware

Explore GigaOM (Dec 21 2011)

...finally learning that the hardware business is not the software business. Revenue for the company's Sun Microsystems-rooted servers fell 14 percent in the second quarter compared to the year-ago period. And gross mar... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Larry Ellison   Sun Microsystems   Oracle

HP Sees Enterprise Momentum for POD Modules

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Dec 15 2011) Construction , Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing

...ploy this?’” HP entered the container business in 2008, when the leading players in the market were Sun Microsystems, Verari and Rackable. The market has many more players now, and HP’s POD business has evolved along... (Read Full Article)

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Sandia Adopts Unique Cooling Approach

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Nov 1 2011) Servers

...rough the rows of racks and their cooling doors, the air is returned via a ceiling plenum. Emerson, Sun Team on Door and Pumping Unit Red Sky uses the Sun Cooling Door (also known as Project Glacier) designed jointly by Sun Microsystems and Emerson Network Power, which was demonstrated at the SC08 show. The Sun Cooling Door 5600 attaches to the back of cabinets and uses an inert refrigerant gas ... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook: 'Open hardware' integral to green IT infrastructure

Explore zdnet.com (Oct 30 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Sun Microsystems   James Hamilton

Facebook letting Open Compute Project go. Will it fly?

Explore GigaOM (Oct 27 2011)

...kers with foundation directors including Silicon Valley superstar Andy Bechtolsheim who co-founded Sun Microsystems and is now chief development officer of Arista Networks. Also on the board are Don Duet, head of gl... (Read Full Article)

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DealBook: Oracle to Buy RightNow for $1.43 Billion

Explore dealbook.nytimes.com (Oct 24 2011)

...ghtNow has nearly 2,000 clients. Oracle’s acquisition — which is its biggest since it purchased Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion in April 2009 — may also indicate that the enterprise company’s appetite for acqui... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Larry Ellison   Sun Microsystems   Oracle

DCK Guide To Modular Data Centers

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Oct 17 2011) Construction , Container , Cloud Computing

...ng garage. They even went so far as to propose a floating data center on cargo ships. + In 2006 Sun Microsystems unveiled project Blackbox, an energy-efficient, water-cooled turnkey data center housed in a shippi... (Read Full Article)

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Green Data Centres Will Be Measured On Money

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Oct 12 2011)

...” said Monroe. He would have delivered the same measure for $3.75, two years ago, when he worked on Sun’s sustainable data centres. Green Data Centres Will Be Measured On Money October 12, 2011 by Peter ... (Read Full Article)

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Green Grid Plans Online Data Centre Efficiency Tool

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Oct 12 2011)

...Mark Monroe (pictured), executive director of the Green Grid, and a former sustainability leader at Sun Microsystems. “They can benchmark themselves and filter by industry type and country. We expect people will asse... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Sun Microsystems   The Green Grid   Peter Judge

Data Center Firm MDC Stockholm to Launch New Modular Data Centers

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Aug 19 2011) Construction , Cloud Computing

...his fall, according to a report by Forbes on Thursday. Though modular data centers are nothing new, Sun Microsystems, HP and i/o have all made their mark on the space in recent years, MDC hopes to make a more stylish... (Read Full Article)

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The Battle for the Converged Data Center Network

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Aug 18 2011) Cloud Computing , Networking , Storage

...s to be seen. o Oracle: Well known for software that powers the Internet, Oracle combined this with Sun Microsystems equipment. It is still missing the networking piece, so it could be looking for an acquisition in t... (Read Full Article)

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Unix Servers Growing As Mainstay Of Data Centres

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jun 24 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

...are taking swings at each other. Oracle entered into the hardware business last year when it bought Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion. Through the deal, Oracle inherited Sun’s SPARC hardware business, bringing it into direct competition with HP and IBM. The competition wa... (Read Full Article)

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Today’s Fusion-io IPO Leads Wave of Fundings

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jun 9 2011)

...ore enterprises migrate to cloud-based services to drive their business.” WayIn raises $6.4 million Sun Microsystems co-founder Scott McNealy has raised close to $6.4 million in financing for one of his new ventures,......r one of his new ventures, stealth start-up WayIn. It looks like McNealy has brought along some old Sun colleagues, as Damien Eastwood, former VP of Legal at Sun, Bill MacGowan, former Chief Human Resources ... (Read Full Article)

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