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Friday Feb 23, 2007

Go green in the data center.

The growing power consumption by data centers and the need to cool constantly running equipment and servers results in increasingly high energy costs. Using less power helps cut the cooling bill. Using smaller, more efficient servers reduces the need for expensive rack space. Now, what's good for the environment is imperative for business.

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Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 CoolThreads Servers: Based on the revolutionary, ultra-fast UltraSPARC T1 "rack-on-a-chip" processor, these 1U and 2U servers are the most energy-efficient, space-saving platforms for Web- and application-tier processing on the planet Learn more

Sun Fire X4100 and X4200 Servers: Powered by AMD Opteron processors, these servers are among the most energy efficient x64 servers in their class, providing more than 52 percent power and cooling savings compared to competion. Learn more

Posted at 01:53PM Feb 23, 2007 by Simon Bullen in Eco data centers. | Comments[1]

Comments:

The X4100 would be even greener if Sun used the HE Opteron chips. I have see a twin chip HE Opteron system with 4GB memory and two SATA disks running at 150 Watts. The X4100 with one PSU, two Model 280 CPU's, one SAS disk and 4GB memory sucks 220 Watts :-(

Posted by Richard Skelton on February 24, 2007 at 12:00 PM GMT #