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Emerson & Sun Announce Global Sales Alliance; Design Datacenter Solution For Sandia National Laboratories

July 29, 2009 by Jeff Shepard

Emerson Network Power and Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced a global sales alliance that the companies say will help provide businesses and organizations with roadmaps and technologies to increase the productivity and energy efficiency of their datacenters.

To address the need for energy-efficiency improvements, Sun’s datacenter efficiency consultants will work directly with Emerson’s local Liebert power, cooling and services specialists throughout the world to assess, develop and maintain solutions to a variety of customer datacenter problems. The companies will deliver not only the plans but also the products and services for improved datacenter productivity and efficiency.

Dr. Robert W. Leland, Director, Computing and Network Services Center at Sandia National Laboratorie, an organization served by the joint Sun-Emerson Network Power alliance, explained, "Right away, we recognized the great value of our association with Sun and Emerson Network Power, and we believe that our collaboration on a new and highly advanced HPC (High-Performance Computing) solution will provide leading-edge performance to our customers with substantially less environmental impact and much lower lifetime cost than the other options we had considered."

The Sun Professional Services and Emerson Network Power alliance led to a jointly designed, energy-efficient solution for Sandia National Laboratories. Specifically, the bundled solution includes Sun™ Cooling Door systems, Sun Blade™ X6275 server modules and Emerson’s Liebert XD precision cooling technology, which removes heat at the source, requires minimal datacenter footprint and helps avoid costly datacenter makeovers.

Amy O’Connor, Vice President of Marketing, Sun Services, said, "Datacenter efficiency is a leading priority for our customers and our alliance with Emerson will help enable us to collaboratively assess a customer’s current IT operations and identify opportunities to increase productivity and improve efficiency of the datacenter. Together, we’ll help customers minimize capital investments that can be used to fund changes based on the savings from operational costs – an appealing approach in today’s economy."

Bob Bauer, Emerson Group Vice President and Liebert Global President, added, "Our vision for this program is centered on the enterprise customer who needs to increase productivity, improve efficiency and optimize capital investments. We worked successfully with Sun on numerous technology development projects, including Sun’s own datacenters. We are looking forward to extending this relationship to the front lines of both organizations to deliver the flexibility and efficiency our joint customers require."