Sun modular data centre solving manufacturers’ expansion problems

Hansen Transmissions, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre (UMCN), Stanford Linear Accelerator Centre and Mobile TeleSystems are all early adopters – and Sun has now released Sun MD Services to support deployments on existing IT infrastructures. Belgian wind turbine and industrial gearbox manufacturer Hansen Transmissions was expanding its manufacturing facilities in India and China, and says it chose Sun MD to help get its Coimbatore, India plant up-and-running quickly. “We considered building a new data centre ourselves, but we needed to be able to offer IT services while the plant was under construction. Sun Modular Datacenter S20 is a great solution for us – cost effective and easy-to deploy,” says Marnix Maes, Hansen’s director of IT. “Using Sun Modular Datacenter, we'll be able to offer IT services in a semi-finished factory and start seeing ROI almost immediately. We also expect to use the same model to support our expansion in other countries.” Sun MD is a high-density, energy efficient and, according to recent adopters, rapidly deployable solution to meet data centre expansion and mobility requirements. Capable of 18 teraflops of compute performance or 3 petabytes of disk capacity in a heterogeneous environment, it’s deployable in a claimed one-tenth of the time it takes to design, build and deploy a typical brick and mortar data centre, and at a fraction of the cost.