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A Closer Look at Sun’s Colorado Data Center
Sun Microsystems’ consolidation into a new data center in Broomfield, Colorado has gotten quite a bit of attention this week. Sun has posted a series of videos with additional information about the consolidation project and the new facility. In this video, engineers describe how Sun used a modular design approach to adapt to challenges with the new building, along with some of the decisions on energy and cooling capacity. This video runs 8 minutes and 30 seconds.
For more news from Sun Microsystems, check out our Sun Channel. For additional video, check out our DCK video archive and the Data Center Videos channel on YouTube.
About Rich Miller
Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.
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Building A Cloud-Savvy Model for TCO and ROI
How Storage is Shaping The Cloud Data Center
Bringing Colo to the Customer: Modular Gets Local
Microsoft’s $1 Billion Data Center
January 28th, 2009