Sun has teamed up with APC, a leader in integrated critical power and cooling services, to design part of Sun's new energy efficient datacenter in Santa Clara, California. The datacenter, commissioned as part of Sun's Eco Innovation Initiative, features a rack-based datacenter that leverages a flexible, scalable APC InfraStruXure InRow cooling solution that will enable Sun to effectively reduce the cost and environmental impact of maintaining its high density IT systems.
The Red Shift, best known in the field of astronomy as the measure of an expanding universe, has been adopted by Sun as a measure of growth in IT. Mike Douglas, Sun VP for global field marketing, explained, "...growth in IT is less from computing and more from social networking." To accommodate this evolving market, Sun has applied the red shift.
What good is a backup system that doesn't produce a particular file on-demand? Or, more to the point, what can developers do to eliminate this possibility? That's the question Glenn Scott, Sun Labs senior researcher, and his team asked as they launched the Celeste Project. The answer, rather, the solution, turned out to be the Celeste Project.
Concerned about the costs of datacenter power usage, cooling requirements and cabling? Dean Nelson has some answers for you and, as he says, "This is not rocket science." Nelson, director of Global Lab and Datacenter Design Services at Sun, shared his ideas on the subject with Al Riske. Nelson and his team have saved Sun millions and are now doing the same for customers.
According to Victoria Shannon in her International Herald Tribune article "A group approach to teaching teachers," Curriki.org is the "Wikipedia of curriculum" and the brainchild of Scott McNealy and Andy Bechtolsheim, Sun chairman and co-founder, respectively. But, she writes, how can Curiki avoid the stigma that attaches to Wikipedia, which often posts specious, unvetted entries, since Curriki also solicits contributions from users?
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