Sun builds green data centre

Sun Microsystems is moving into the green IT market, responding to market demand for more energy-efficient data management, with the largest data centre consolidation project in the company's history, states PC Mag.

The new site is estimated to save more than $1 million (R10.1 million) in electricity costs and

11 000 metric tons of CO2 per year, achieving dramatic footprint compression via energy-efficient SPARC and x64 servers, Open Storage and tape products, and the OpenSolaris operating system.

Sun will also employ SPARC Enterprise T5440 and M5000 servers, as well as the SunStorageTek SL8500 modular library system, the Sun Fire X4500 storage server and Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems.

Cisco Systems is looking to reduce the energy consumption of network attached devices such as IP phones, laptops and access points using a new architecture called EnergyWise, says IT World.

Using EnergyWise, network administrators will be able to control power over Ethernet connected devices. So IP phones or wireless access points can be turned off when they are not in use, for example, after work hours or on weekends.

Cisco Sweden CTO Henrik Bergqvist says during the third quarter Cisco will add support for EnergyWise to PCs, laptops and printers, and by the end of the year, support will also be added to its own access points and IP phones.

ITC Infotech, a wholly owned subsidiary of ITC, is focusing on green IT in its future plans, reports Business Standard.

Given the amount of outsourced IT solutions and services to the company through its wholly-owned subsidiaries in the UK and US, ITC Infotech will invest into green IT and enterprise performance management.

"While it is quite premature to put a number, we intend to invest a lot on green IT for the next few years. It is quite alarming that two-thirds of the global carbon footprint comes from computing power. Moreover, two-thirds of global sourcing comes to India. In such a scenario, if we need to progress, we will have to focus on green IT and consume less energy to stay ahead," says ITC Infotech MD Sanjay Puri.