Comments on: Sun’s Colorado Consolidation Saves Millions http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/01/26/suns-colorado-consolidation-saves-millions/ News and analysis about data centers, cloud computing, managed hosting and disaster recovery Tue, 14 Feb 2012 04:07:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: HPC Info » Sun Data Center: 165,000 sq. ft. into 700 sq. ft., Reduces Power Usage by 1 Million kWh per Month http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/01/26/suns-colorado-consolidation-saves-millions/comment-page-1/#comment-4084 HPC Info » Sun Data Center: 165,000 sq. ft. into 700 sq. ft., Reduces Power Usage by 1 Million kWh per Month Sun, 31 May 2009 04:19:19 +0000 http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/?p=6672#comment-4084 [...] Sun’s Colorado Consolidation Saves Millions describes how Sun used Liebert’s XD rack cooling, clear vinyl cold isle curtains and flywheels to increase the density of its data center while also reducing energy consumption.  They reduced 165,000 square feet of data center space into 700 square feet while reducing their monthly power usage by one million kilowatt-hours. [...] [...] Sun’s Colorado Consolidation Saves Millions describes how Sun used Liebert’s XD rack cooling, clear vinyl cold isle curtains and flywheels to increase the density of its data center while also reducing energy consumption.  They reduced 165,000 square feet of data center space into 700 square feet while reducing their monthly power usage by one million kilowatt-hours. [...]

]]> By: Sun Data Center: 165,000 sq. ft. into 700 sq. ft., Reduces Power Usage by 1 Million kWh per Month « HPC Info http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/01/26/suns-colorado-consolidation-saves-millions/comment-page-1/#comment-4079 Sun Data Center: 165,000 sq. ft. into 700 sq. ft., Reduces Power Usage by 1 Million kWh per Month « HPC Info Sat, 30 May 2009 03:59:00 +0000 http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/?p=6672#comment-4079 [...] Sun’s Colorado Consolidation Saves Millions describes how Sun used Liebert’s XD rack cooling, clear vinyl cold isle curtains and flywheels to increase the density of its data center while also reducing energy consumption.  They reduced 165,000 square feet of data center space into 700 square feet while reducing their monthly power usage by one million kilowatt-hours. [...] [...] Sun’s Colorado Consolidation Saves Millions describes how Sun used Liebert’s XD rack cooling, clear vinyl cold isle curtains and flywheels to increase the density of its data center while also reducing energy consumption.  They reduced 165,000 square feet of data center space into 700 square feet while reducing their monthly power usage by one million kilowatt-hours. [...]

]]> By: Rich Miller http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/01/26/suns-colorado-consolidation-saves-millions/comment-page-1/#comment-2707 Rich Miller Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:35:35 +0000 http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/?p=6672#comment-2707 Ed: This is what Sun is claiming. The square footage on the total facilities involved is about a 4-to-1 compression (about 496K SF to 126K SF). Dealing only with the data center space, Sun reports that the operations housed in 165K SF of space at Louisville now reside in 700SF of space in Broomfield. Is this apples to apples? Clearly not, and that's partly the point - Sun replaced a crate of old moldy oranges with shiny new apples. That's a process that has business value, and many companies today are dealing with similar scenarios. If any of our readers from Sun are here this morning, feel free to provide additional info/perspective. Ed:

This is what Sun is claiming. The square footage on the total facilities involved is about a 4-to-1 compression (about 496K SF to 126K SF). Dealing only with the data center space, Sun reports that the operations housed in 165K SF of space at Louisville now reside in 700SF of space in Broomfield.

Is this apples to apples? Clearly not, and that’s partly the point – Sun replaced a crate of old moldy oranges with shiny new apples. That’s a process that has business value, and many companies today are dealing with similar scenarios.

If any of our readers from Sun are here this morning, feel free to provide additional info/perspective.

]]> By: Ed Case http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/01/26/suns-colorado-consolidation-saves-millions/comment-page-1/#comment-2706 Ed Case Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:04:02 +0000 http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/?p=6672#comment-2706 700 sq ft or raised floor and Data Center Infrastructure? Clearly there could not have been 165,000 sq ft of raised floor. Let's report Apples to Apples please! 700 sq ft or raised floor and Data Center Infrastructure? Clearly there could not have been 165,000 sq ft of raised floor. Let’s report Apples to Apples please!

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