How do businesses benefit from the announcement between Sun and PG&E?
PG&E recognized Sun’s leadership in the area of energy-efficient servers and made the T1000 and T2000 the first server products to receive a rebate. If you are a data center manager looking to upgrade your servers, you get this rebate on top of the money that you save in energy, as well as related cooling and power distribution costs. When you add all of that up, it becomes an attractive way to ease the overall energy burden, help the environment, and save money. Q: Why is the timing for this initiative important? A: There is a confluence of forces driving the timing for this type of incentive program. First, energy costs are going up. Analysts are saying that energy is now 15-20 percent of the budget of many large data centers, meaning that this has now become economically significant for IT and finance folks. Second, in many geographic areas energy capacity is maxed out. This was especially acute during the summer hot spells on the West and East Coasts of the U.S. where Sun participa
