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Sun Microsystems Recognized by US EPA for Surpassing Aggressive Greenhouse Gas Emissions Goal
SANTA CLARA, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced the reduction of its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from US operations by 23 percent, surpassing its goal five years early. Originally committed to a 20 percent reduction over 2002 levels by 2012, Sun's combination of workplace innovation and use of energy efficient technologies and services, including its Sun SPARC(tm) Enterprise servers with CoolThreads(tm) technology, helped the company surpass its original goal in 2007. As part of its continued commitment to Eco Innovation and the goals of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Climate Leaders program, Sun has pledged an additional 20 percent GHG emissions reduction from worldwide operations over 2007 levels by 2015. To hear more about Sun's achievement, listen to the following segment on Blog Talk Radio: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/stations/sunradio/SunNews/2008/10/02/ Oct-2-2008-459PM (Due to its length, this URL may need to be copied/pasted into your Internet browser's address field. Remove the extra space if one exists.)
Eco innovation is at the core of Sun's values and customer offerings. Sun promotes an actionable path to cut energy bills and IT environmental impact through a simple three-step approach for assessing, optimizing and virtualizing IT infrastructures. This results in decisive actions that limit computing's impact on the planet and the bottom line of both Sun and its customers. Sun also powers the global online community OpenEco.org, which provides free, easy-to-use tools to help participants assess, track, and compare business energy performance, share proven best practices to reduce GHG emissions, and encourage sustainable innovation.
Sun also enables customers to reduce the GHG emissions and energy consumption of their IT infrastructures with a full portfolio of energy efficient SPARC(R) Enterprise servers running the Solaris(TM) Operating System (OS), and a complete suite of Eco Services designed to improve data center energy utilization. Select Sun servers with CoolThreads(TM) technology are eligible for incentives from Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) and can be test driven in a free 60-day trial via Sun's Try and Buy program. More information on Sun's energy efficient servers and services is available at http://www.sun.com/solutions/eco_innovation/products.jsp. More information on Try & Buy is available at http://www.sun.com/tryandbuy.
"Sun is committed to sustainable IT and business practices that deliver both ecological and economic benefits," said Dave Douglas, Chief Sustainability Officer at Sun Microsystems. "We are living proof that innovative technologies and practices can lead to important reductions in GHG emissions."
"EPA applauds our corporate partners who are reducing their climate footprints in cost-effective ways," said EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson. "Not only is Sun contributing to this country's energy independence, Sun is proving that businesses can save green by going green."
Climate Leaders is a key element of Sun's program to quantify, disclose and reduce the overall carbon footprint of its operations. The industry-government partnership fits with Sun's efforts to make a positive impact on the environment, while also resulting in measurable benefits to the business.
Driving Towards Sustainability
The success of Sun's extensive flexible work program, Open Work, is essential to reducing operational GHG emissions. More than 56 percent of its global workforce works away from the office (at home, a Sun drop in center, coffee shop or other location that makes sense) at least one day each week. The Open Work program has dramatically reduced the need for office space, and Sun was able to release more than 15 percent, or 2.6 million square feet, of its real estate holdings during fiscal year 2007, saving the company nearly $68 million. With more than 90 percent of Sun's GHG emissions resulting from electricity purchases, the significant savings from decommissioning unnecessary real estate allowed Sun to dramatically decrease its energy use and its related carbon output.
Many of Sun's flexible workers use Sun Ray(tm) thin client technology, an ultra energy-efficient, virtualized desktop that draws only 4 watts of electricity - as much as the average night light. These employees log in to their desktops with a secure Java(TM) technology-enabled ID card, and their files are stored on a central server rather than on an individual PC. By providing the enabling technologies, workplaces and work practices that give employees the flexibility and freedom to work from home -- or closer to home -- Sun is contributing to a better quality of life for its employees and increasing job satisfaction while positively impacting the company's financials and the planet.
Eco Innovation
Sun's force in driving eco innovation is helping to empower its customers around the world. The company's line of servers that utilize energy efficient CoolThreads technology represents $1.1 billion in sales and growing. The Sun Modular Datacenter (Sun MD, formerly known as Project Blackbox) is a datacenter built into a shipping container that delivers extreme energy, space and performance efficiencies. Designed to be 40 percent more energy efficient than typical datacenters, it uses one-eighth the space and can be located near renewable energy sources. Sun has also enacted a company-wide initiative to replace older technology with its newer products in datacenters, labs and offices, thereby enabling greater computing power from fewer machines, while using less space and energy.
Sun's eco-minded leadership combined with breakthrough designs and next-generation energy efficient power and cooling systems allowed the company to consolidate datacenters around the world, including locations in Santa Clara, Calif., Blackwater, UK and Bangalore, India. In the Santa Clara project alone Sun has seen $1 million in power savings annually. Energy efficiencies resulting from these projects will significantly help Sun reach its next goal of a 20 percent reduction in GHG emissions from Sun's worldwide operations over 2007 levels by 2015.
About Climate Leaders
Climate Leaders is an EPA industry-government partnership that works with companies to develop comprehensive climate change strategies. Partner companies commit to reducing their impact on the global environment by completing a corporate-wide inventory of their greenhouse gas emissions based on a quality management system, setting aggressive reduction goals, and annually reporting their progress to EPA. Through program participation, companies create a credible record of their accomplishments and receive EPA recognition as corporate environmental leaders.
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer" -- Sun drives network participation through shared innovation, community development and open source leadership. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com.
Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Sun SPARC, CoolThreads, Java, Solaris and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. All SPARC trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International, Inc. in the US and other countries. Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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