Sun Microsystems debuts new Sun Modular Datacenter Solution

Company Brief

New Delhi, November 19, 2008

Sun Microsystems and Emerson today announced 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. 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 datacenter capacity regardless of location.

Based 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. 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 datacenter, at a fraction of the cost. Sun MD, with its innovative watercooled design, also delivers over 40 percent lower cooling costs, independent of payload, as compared to a typical datacenter.

Sun has partnered with Emerson Network Power to launch the Sun Modular datacenter in India as Emerson a leader in Business Critical Continuity, has devised a containerized power & cooling solution with the inherent properties of scalability and modularity required for a unique, innovative concept like Sun Modular Datacenter.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr. R. Vasudevan, Vice President Enterprise Solutions, Emerson Network Power India said, “At Emerson, we are committed to provide energy efficient integrated solutions for power & 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%. ”

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 datacenter space.”

Speaking at the press conference, Mr. 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. 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 datacenter 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. In addition to the performance boost, costs savings and the eco features of Sun MD, two critical aspects that I believe will influence a CIO’s purchasing decision towards the solution is the durability and mobility of the Sun Modular Datacenter."

“The Sun MD along with the Total Infrastructure Solution offered via Sun Professional Services enables companies in India to dramatically increase time deployment of new IT resources where they want it - not where they are limited by local infrastructure” Peter further added.

Engineered to minimize energy and space requirements and maximize compute density and operating efficiency, Sun MD delivers compute capacity quickly, where and when it’s needed most in roughly 1/10th the time to deploy a bricks-and-mortar datacenter.

The Sun MD is enhanced with up to eight high-density racks, a unique water-based cooling system, and shock absorption technology for ultimate transportability. Designed to house a payload of 19-inch rackmount servers, storage, telecommunications, and networking equipment, the Sun MD can be installed permanently or repurposed and relocated to meet ever-changing business demands. Multiple units 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 generations of blade servers and other high-density equipment that many existing datacenters today are unable to support due to their limited power or cooling capabilities. With the ability to power and cool as much as 25 kW per rack and four times the density per rack of a typical datacenter, the Sun MD can also help reduce clutter and chaos in the datacenter by serving as the ultimate consolidation and virtualization platform.

The Sun MD D20 is the new deeper rack model of the Sun S20 and provides customers with new choices for deploying a broader spectrum of enterprise-class servers and storage in their modular datacenters. The deeper rack configuration is particularly beneficial for customers who run larger database applications or who want to use Sun MD for back up and recovery or other business critical solutions which require larger amounts of disk and tape.

From the Sun portfolio, the new Sun MD D20 supports systems including the Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 and M5000 servers, Sun StorageTek SL500 Modular Library, and the Sun StorageTek 9985V System. Sun MD also supports a wide range of third-party equipment in both the standard and deep rack configs.

Since its official, global launch in January 2008, the Sun MD has taken the world by storm and generated tremendous customer interest. In the last year alone, it has visited 73 cities on four continents and been toured by more than 12,000 customers and partners. The solution has been deployed by numerous global customers - especially those in emerging markets - for a broad range of applications in high-performance computing, education, manufacturing, government, telecommunications and healthcare. The Sun MD is also the only containerized datacenter certified for regulatory and safety compliance as well as for fire-suppression in over 50 countries world-wide. .

The Sun Modular Datacenter is an ideal solution for customers who want to quickly add

incremental datacenter capacity virtually anywhere, with the flexibility to reconfigure and move it as business needs change at a much lower cost than traditional alternatives.

Advantages of a Sun Modular Datacenter at a glance

* Rapid Deployment: A fully functional Sun Modular Datacenter in as little as 1/10th the time it takes to deploy a traditional bricks & mortar datacenter

* Game-changing Economics: The Sun MD enables customers to preserve their capital by allowing customers to buy datacenter capacity in smaller, more precise increments in the amount they need, when they need, and where they need it.

* Mobility Enables Flexibility: The Sun MD frees customers to deploy their datacenters anywhere in the world it is needed - a perfect solution for remote regions and areas with rapidly developing IT needs. The Sun MD's mobility gives customers the flexibility to deploy and then relocate the system according to new business requirements.

* High-density Computing: Capacity for 1120 CPUs or over three petabytes of disk storage! This enables performance nearly 50terafLops, or over 450 million web operations per second, or over 100 GB/s bandwidth for Business Intelligence/Data Warehouse applications.

* Eco Value: The Sun MD's highly efficient cooling system reduces cooling costs by over 40percent compared to a traditional datacenter for a much lower CO2 footprint! At only 160 sq ft, the Sun MD is eight times smaller than a typical datacenter for the same payload with less maintenance and operational overhead. The Sun Modular Datacenter is a revolutionary way to add datacenter capacity, and Sun Microsystems makes it simple. 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. The Sun Modular Datacenter (Sun MD) breaks traditional planning and design convention, offering a number of innovative features that provide compelling economic as well as ecological benefits over traditional choices.

For further information, please contact:

Sun Microsystems India Pvt. Ltd.

Bipasha Chakrabarti

PR and Communications Manager

E-mail: bipasha.chakrabarti@sun.com

Ph: 080- 66930600

Emerson Network Power (India) Pvt. Ltd.

Ankesh Kumar

Head – Marketing & Communication

E-mail: ankesh.kumar@emerson.com

Ph.: +91-22-6720 8020

Vaishnavi Corporate Communications,

Manpreet Singh

E-mail: manpreet.singh@vccpl.com

Mobile: 9810286337