Emerson Network Power and Sun agreed a global sales alliance which will see Sun's data center consultants will work directly with Emerson's local Liebert power, cooling and services specialists throughout the world.

According to a statement the partnership has already worked with the Sandia National Laboratories delivering a solution comprised of Sun Cooling Door systems, Sun Blade X6275 server modules and Emerson's Liebert XD precision cooling technology which 'removes heat at the source, requires minimal datacenter footprint and helps avoid costly data center makeovers.'

Dr. Robert W. Leland, director, Computing and Network Services Center at Sandia National Laboratories, said: "Right away, we recognized the great value of our association with Sun and Emerson Network Power, and we believe that our collaboration on a new and highly advanced HPC (High-Performance Computing) solution will provide leading-edge performance to our customers with substantially less environmental impact and much lower lifetime cost than the other options we had considered."

Amy O'Connor, vice president of marketing, Sun Services, said, "Data center efficiency is a leading priority for our customers and our alliance with Emerson will help enable us to collaboratively assess a customer's current IT operations and identify opportunities to increase productivity and improve efficiency of the data center. Together, we'll help customers minimize capital investments that can be used to fund changes based on the savings from operational costs-an appealing approach in today's economy."

Inseparable

Bob Bauer, Emerson group vice president and Liebert global president, added, "Our vision for this program is centered on the enterprise customer who needs to increase productivity, improve efficiency and optimize capital investments. We worked successfully with Sun on numerous technology development projects, including Sun's own data centers. We are looking forward to extending this relationship to the front lines of both organizations to deliver the flexibility and efficiency our joint customers require."