Sun Microsystems, Emerson Debut Sun Modular Datacentre D20

Sun Microsystems and Emerson have announced the availability of the new Sun Modular Datacentre (Sun MD) D20 paired with Emerson’s power and cooling infrastructure for a complete modular data centre solution designed to meet India’s rapidly growing IT requirements. Deployable virtually anywhere in the country, the Sun MD and Emerson infrastructure are an ideal solution for Indian companies and government agencies looking to rapidly expand their data centre capacity regardless of location.

Based on a standard 20-foot (6.1 m) shipping container, the Sun MD leverages Sun’s design innovation to engineer out complexity and provide an energy efficient and rapidly deployable solution to meet data centre 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 with its innovative water-cooled design, also delivers over 40 percent lower cooling costs, independent of payload, as compared to a typical data centre.

Sun has partnered with Emerson Network Power to launch the Sun Modular data centre in India as Emerson has devised a containerised power and cooling solution with properties of scalability and modularity required for a concept like Sun Modular Datacentre.

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. The concept of EnergyLogic devised by us has helped customers reduce power consumption by almost 40 percent.”

“This partnership is aimed at combining the expertise of both Sun Microsystems and Emerson to provide customers with an efficient solution in the data centre space.”

Peter Chadford, director, Sales Development, APAC and Emerging Regions, Sun Microsystems, said, “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 to offer the Sun MD as an appropriate solution not only for customers, who are out of data centre 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. Two critical aspects of the Sun MD that I believe will influence a CIO’s purchasing decision towards the solution are the durability and mobility of the Sun Modular Datacentre.”

The Sun MD is enhanced with up to eight high-density racks, a water-based cooling system, and shock absorption technology for ultimate transportability. Multiple units of the solution can be distributed geographically to provide a complete global datacenter or disaster recovery solution.

Each Sun MD hosts one 12.5-kW rack for network and system management equipments and six (D20) or seven (S20) 25-kW-capable general-purpose racks for servers, storage, or other equipment. This makes it an ideal platform for the new generation of blade servers and other high-density equipment.
The Sun Modular Datacentre is an ideal solution for customers, who want to quickly add incremental data centre capacity virtually anywhere, with the flexibility to reconfigure and move it as business needs change at a lower cost than traditional alternatives.