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Full article: 5 Questions for Sun's CIO Bob Worrall (22-Aug-07)

Sun Microsystems is working to green their data centres; in addition to unveiling three new data centres designed to save electricity the corporation are planning to reduce energy usage in the data centre by 20% in fiscal year 2008.

Sun’s CIO Bob Worrall made a number of interesting points at the corporations “Eco Innovation”, the CIO believes that virtualisation is complementary to solving the whole power problem and is the only way to achieve server utilisation of 80 – 85%.

When asked about the data centres of the future Mr Worrall stated that traditional IT environments will not be needed by 2015; this is due to applications becoming more service based; hence the need for corporate data centres will diminish.