...with modularity it basically means you can snap things in as you need it.
-- Dean Nelson, Sun
Modular Approach Is Key to Datacenter Design for Sun Savings in Power Consumption, Cooling, Real Estate
If reducing 152 datacenters to 14 and 202,000 square feet of real estate to 76,000 isn't sufficiently impressive, then consider that the design of Sun's datacenter in Santa Clara, Calif. saved US$9 million in future construction costs and delivered an 88% reduction in overall real estate costs. Rafael Ruffolo of IT World Canada reports that Sun will also realize savings of at least US$1.1 million in power costs annually while reducing power load by 60%.
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