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Customers are increasingly rethinking their enterprise datacenter strategy due to increasing demands and limitations around energy, space and cost. Analysts are now saying that IT infrastructure power usage will soon cost more than the hardware itself, and enterprise datacenters are running out of space and power while cooling and energy costs are rising. More than ever, enterprises need to plan and build datacenters that will accommodate these and future IT needs.

Sun’s expanded service offerings focus on providing customers with expert consulting across three key areas: Datacenter Strategy, Design and Build. Sun’s global practice has the expertise to help key stakeholders such as CFO’s, CIO’s and Corporate Real Estate Officers realize significant benefits, including consolidation of datacenter space to free up valuable real estate, improvement of datacenters’ energy efficiency and reduction of operating costs while improving service levels and embracing a Green IT strategy.

Datacenter Strategy Consulting

Sun’s Datacenter Strategy Consulting will match business and IT requirements with the number and tier level of physical datacenters. Sun’s expert consultants can assess all components of the customer’s IT eco system, and can help customers connect the dots between their business continuity planning, datacenter facility strategy and IT architecture, resulting in a more secure position for their business. Depending on the customer’s specific business needs, Sun consultants can recommend optimization of an existing datacenter, deployment of a Sun Modular Datacenter, or building a new facility to meet efficiency and power requirements. Datacenter Strategy Consulting addresses all components of an IT eco-system, including real estate, facilities, hardware, software, network, and security. Modeling and simulation provides the ROI justification for various scenarios under consideration.

Datacenter Design

Sun’s unique datacenter design approach combines the best in mechanical and electrical experience with IT infrastructure design and management experience to help customers bridge IT and building infrastructure requirements. Sun subscribes to the concept of a high density "pod" which utilizes the methodology for modular datacenter design. It creates a standard that can be used to speed the process of building new, efficient, and up-to-date environments. Sun partners with the leading providers of infrastructure to complete the solution. APC, a global leader in integrated critical power and cooling services, worked with Sun to design a portion of Sun’s newest energy efficient datacenter in Santa Clara, CA.

By utilizing best practices in datacenter design and hardware consolidation, Sun was able to cut its utility bill by over 60% and earn over $1.2M in rebates, and reduce datacenter real estate by 90%. Sun and APC are now using their combined expertise of infrastructure design services and innovative cooling solutions to help customers reduce their datacenter cost and environmental impact.

Datacenter Build

Sun consultants can manage the entire build-out project for customers. This includes selection and management of real estate and property acquisition partners, construction oversite that leverages local construction partners, and data center implementation services which includes IT equipment installation, configuration and readiness services. A final element of this service is the recommendation for interim solutions while the datacenter is being built, including leasing of a Sun Modular Datacenter or Sun-provided hosting services.

Sun consultants can also take it one step further by providing virtualization technology. Based on the customer’s specific goals, Sun can optimize IT infrastructure even more with its Sun xVM virtualization software, Solaris 10 Containers, or other leading virtualization software, resulting in a greater impact on system utilization, reduced power, energy and cooling costs and simplifying datacenter manageability. In addition, Sun can virtualize the desktop to the datacenter.