February 2, 2006 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Data center solutions maker Sun Microsystems (sun.com) said this week that it had called for the IT industry to work with Energy Star to develop energy efficiency in data center Web servers at the Enterprise Servers and Data Centers: Opportunities for Energy Savings conference.
The company teamed with conference partners US EPA and AMD as well as end users and other industry players to discuss means of improving the efficiency of energy use in data centers and to develop standard metrics for energy efficiency.
With Web user numbers expected to grow by up to 300 million per year in the immediate future, says Sun, small improvements in Web server energy efficiency have the potential to produce savings on a large scale.
"The Energy Star program is one of the most successful public-private partnerships in history," said Greg Papadopoulos, executive vice president and CTO at Sun. "And Sun is calling on all of our industry colleagues to join us in working with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, European Union, and other partners to expand Energy Star to cover all computers, not only on desktops but in data center Web servers as well."
On Wednesday, Sun announced a new project designed to make it easier for data center operators to migrate their systems to the Solaris 10 operating system.
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