Eco Launch

The Role of Modularity in Datacenter Design

In June of 2006 we presented our proposal to Jonathan Schwartz's staff for the largest, most complex and aggressive datacenter consolidation in Sun's history.  We had just completed a years worth of great datacenter projects in Czech Republic, China, UK, and Norway and we were raring to go. The proposal said that in just 12 months we would consolidate 202,000 square feet of datacenter space from of our Newark & Sunnyvale, CA campuses into less than 80,000 square feet of new datacenter space in our Santa Clara, CA campus. At the end of that meeting we received the approval for the project and Jonathan asked one final question, "Where's the book that I can hand out to customers?".  Needless to say, we had our hands full with the California consolidation and the new acquisition of StorageTek.

Go Green

I'm the Director of Global Lab & Datacenter Design Servers (GDS), an internal group in Sun. We're responsible for standardizing the global technical infrastructure portfolio for Sun. That's currently 1.3 million square feet in 1588 rooms world-wide. It's quite a fun job.

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