Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson (NYSE: EMR) and a global leader in enabling Business-Critical Continuity, and Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced a global sales alliance that will help provide businesses and organizations with roadmaps and technologies to increase the productivity and energy efficiency of their datacenters. Globally, datacenter energy consumption is driven by businesses' demand for greater computing capacity and increased IT centralization. When combined with increasing global electricity prices, the financial implications are significant.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, it is estimated that U.S. corporations and public agencies spent $4.5 billion in 2006 to power their datacenters, and national datacenter energy consumption could nearly double in the next five years to more than $7.4 billion annually, making datacenter efficiency a leading priority for customers. The power and cooling infrastructure that supports IT equipment in datacenters can account for more than 50 percent of total data center energy consumption.

To address the need for energy-efficiency improvements, Sun's datacenter efficiency consultants will work directly with Emerson's local ... Читать дальше »