Power consumption has increasingly become a priority in customer's minds when purchasing new systems or storage. Sun's Power Calculators provide data on power consumption of Sun products allowing IT managers to better plan the power requirements in the datacenter to achieve better energy and cost savings. »

Video: Learn more about trends in sustainable IT and how Sun is committed to building energy-efficient products that are smarter, safer & more environmentally responsible. »

Video: Learn how Sun pioneered an innovative approach to improve power, cooling, and networking as part of a major datacenter consolidation plan. »

Solid data does more than convince an organization that efficiency can cut expenses a baseline measurement gives a starting place and point of comparison for datacenter-efficiency improvements. »

Suns next-generation datacenter designs include flexible and adaptable electrical systems. This provides the ability to change power configurations in minutes and the capacity to easily accommodate future power demands without disrupting datacenter operations. »

David Douglas, VP of Eco Responsibility at Sun Microsystems, is responsible for Sun's overall approach to Eco, including the company's products and internal operations. He uses this blog to share things that he finds interesting, as well as to pose questions he's working on. »

A complete solution to help you optimize and refresh your datacenter while properly recycling equipment and eliminating eWaste, including money-saving promotions to lower hardware acquisition costs. »

SWaP is the new standard for calculating server efficiency before you buy. It's an innovative metric that allows you to calculate the impact of a server in your data center. »

Need to build a large-scale computing solution that provides up to 100 teraflops worth of peak compute power? Sun has developed a simple tool that can help you simplify the otherwise daunting task of designing, configuring, purchasing, and installing all the equipment required to create such a "High–End" HPC solution. »

What's the difference between the Solaris 10 OS and Solaris Express Developer Edition (SXDE)? And where does OpenSolaris come into play? This brief Webcast will help you sort through the different versions of Solaris and help you understand which version will best suit your needs. The speakers also give you a sneak peak into Project Indiana -- the new open source binary distribution of OpenSolaris that combines the best of Linux with the unique features of the Solaris OS. »

Accelerating trends are driving the evolution of networking in the Solaris Operating System. Millions of new users connect to the Internet every week through increasingly sophisticated wireless devices, PCs, and even automobiles. New Solaris 10 Networking features address performance, scalability, security, and protocol support. »

Security is more than a mix of technologies -- it's an ongoing discipline. At Sun, we're reinforcing our more than 20-year commitment to building security into the Solaris Operating System with the release of the Solaris 10 OS -- our most security-enabled OS yet. »

The Solaris 10 Operating System includes licenses to run some of the most popular software components of the Sun Java Enterprise System. »

Anyone who has ever lost important files, run out of space on a partition, spent weekends adding new storage to servers, tried to grow or shrink a file system, or experienced data corruption knows that there is room for improvement in file systems and volume managers. The Solaris Zettabyte File System (ZFS), is designed from the ground up to meet the emerging needs of a general-purpose file system that spans the desktop to the data center. »

This whitepaper provides relevant insights into how the Solaris OS and Linux can be expected to perform in Web, e-mail, and related environments, where x86-based hardware is typically deployed. »

The Solaris 10 Operating System offers wide-ranging platform support, which means it runs in a variety of roles and application areas across your IT organization. It serves as a highly scalable platform for Web services, providing an ideal foundation for the Sun Java Enterprise System, Apache, Tomcat, and JBoss Web software. On the desktop, the Solaris 10 OS enables power users and developers to take advantage of advanced features and value-added, cost-efficient office productivity and developer tools. »

Virtualization is being used as a tool for consolidation, a means to reduce space and power requirements, and more recently as a way to bring business continuity to a larger part of an organizations IT infrastructure. The key to these benefits is that virtualization software both encapsulates the software stack and decouples it from the underlying hardware. »

Consolidate multiple applications and operating systems onto the same server? Its an innovative way to do more with less, and its straightforward with virtualization technologies from Sun and its partners. »

Consolidate a number of applications from a number of under-utilized servers and ease the space, power, and cooling crunch. Consolidate from many to few servers to help reduce maintenance costs. »

IT organizations with a number of applications running on older, inefficient, and under-utilized servers can consolidate them onto a smaller number of high-performance, energy-efficient servers that can run at higher utilization levels and reduce overall space, power, and cooling requirements. »

Expansion in the Web tier is generally accomplished by adding more servers whenever extra capacity is needed. As the pool of servers grows larger, however, the complexity of the environment can grow exponentially. »

Sun Virtual Desktop Solutions significantly improve the security, reduce operating expenses, and streamline the management of your desktop environment. Complete desktop environments and applications are hosted in the datacenter and users securely access their desktops from a wide range of client devices, including Windows PCs, Sun Ray virtual display clients, Apple Macs or any combination of supported devices. A variety of networks are supported, from LAN to WAN or the public Internet. »