The Uptime Institute 2009 Global Green 100 is a list of companies demonstrating an integral commitment to and progress toward reducing their energy consumption and carbon footprint. Sun is one of the 100 recognized this year. Greenpeace also is honoring Sun as the IT leader in its Climate Leadership Challenge.

Uptime Institute

"Sun's effective leadership in 'greening' its own enterprise demonstrated an outstanding commitment to energy efficiency for the betterment of its own business performance and the eco-sustainability of our planet," said Ken Brill, executive director of the Uptime Institute. "The Uptime Institute is proud to recognize Sun with this distinguished achievement."

As part of its efforts in greening its operations, Sun has consolidated its own datacenters around the world, including locations in Broomfield, Colo., Blackwater, UK, Santa Clara, Calif., and Bangalore, India. These datacenters run exclusively on Sun's line of energy efficient products, including Sun's chip multi-threaded (CMT) SPARC Enterprise servers, Sun's x64 servers and the Solaris Operating System. As an example, Sun's Broomfield, Colo. datacenter is expected to save more than $1 million in electricity costs and 11,000 metric tons of CO2 per year and will help the company reduce its carbon footprint by 6 percent in the U.S.

Sun also has taken the technical innovation and design concepts from these datacenters, documented the IP and best practices from each and is offering them as services to its customers through its dedicated datacenter efficiency consulting practice. Sun datacenter consultants help customers plan, design and build datacenters that will maximize space, minimize operating costs, address business continuity and accommodate future trends in IT innovation.

Greenpeace

Greenpeace launched an IT Climate Leadership Challenge to IT executives asking them to support of a strong Kyoto deal this year and lead the way in providing climate solutions across the economy.

Greenpeace asked that these corporations provide real solutions for the imminent threat of global warming while also tackling the current economic crisis by turning climate change into a business opportunity. They outlined four specific criteria for IT companies as part of the challenge.

• Publicly demonstrate their support for a strong Kyoto deal
• Lobby their national governments to support strong global mandatory Kyoto regulation
• Significantly cut their own company's absolute emissions
• Ensure a large scale increase in their company's own use of renewable energy

"With many companies it's taking a long time to get answers but kudos to Sun Microsystems for sending and now publishing a response which already puts down a good marker for where they will score against others in May," noted the Greenpeace blog Making Waves.

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