Sun Microsystems Named to Uptime Institute's Global Green 100

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Esteemed Award Demonstrates Sun's Continued Commitment to Eco Innovation

NEW YORK, NY April 15, 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced it's been named to theUptime Institute's Global Green 100 list. The role highlights the significant energy efficiency achievements of global corporations that have demonstrated a board-level policy and governance commitment to increasing energy efficiency and reducing the carbon footprint of their enterprise IT and datacenter operations.

"Being named to the Uptime Global Green 100 is a shining recognition of Sun's continued commitment to eco-innovation," said Subodh Bapat, vice president and distinguished engineer for Energy Efficiency at Sun. "We've developed a solid blueprint for green datacenter leadership which we can deliver through Sun Services. Additionally, we have delivered innovative servers, storage, and service products in order to make computing more sustainable and to help drive significant efficiencies in terms of cost, electricity and overall carbon savings to both Sun and its customers."

"Sun's effective leadership in 'greening' its own enterprise demonstrated an outstanding commitment to energy efficiency for the betterment of its own business performance and the eco-sustainability of our planet," said Ken Brill, executive director of the Uptime Institute. "The Uptime Institute is proud to recognize Sun with this distinguished achievement."

Sun's continued focus and leadership on greening its operations combined with breakthrough designs and next-generation energy efficient power and cooling systems enabled the company to consolidate its own datacenters around the world, including locations in Broomfield, Colo., Blackwater, UK, Santa Clara, Calif., and Bangalore, India. These datacenters run exclusively on Sun's line of energy efficient products, including Sun's chip multi-threaded (CMT) SPARC Enterprise servers, Sun's x64 servers and the Solaris Operating System. In Broomfield, Sun estimates that its datacenter efforts will save more than $1 million in electricity costs and 11,000 metric tons of CO2 per year and will help the company reduce its carbon footprint by 6 percent in the U.S. For more information on the Broomfield datacenter, including photos and a video tour,click here.

Additionally, Sun has taken the technical innovation and design concepts from these datacenters, documented the IP and best practices from each and is offering them as services to its customers through its dedicated datacenter efficiency consulting practice. Sun datacenter consultants help customers plan, design and build datacenters that will maximize space, minimize operating costs, address business continuity and accommodate future trends in IT innovation. These datacenters are more resilient, secure and agile to help our customers respond to rapidly changing business needs, while improving operational efficiency to significantly lower costs. Using open systems and the most innovative power, cooling and networking technologies, Sun can help businesses scale and transform their IT environments into dynamic datacenters.

Subodh Bapat, vice president and distinguished engineer for Energy Efficiency at Sun Microsystems, will accept the award on behalf of Sun at the Uptime Institute's IT Symposium in New York City. For more information on the event,click here.

Eco Responsibility at Sun

Sun promotes an actionable path to cut energy bills and reduce IT environmental impact through a three-step approach for assessing, optimizing and virtualizing IT infrastructures. This results in decisive actions that limit technology's impact on the planet and the bottom line of both Sun and its customers. Sun helps enable customers to reduce the GHG emissions and energy consumption of their IT infrastructures with a full portfolio of servers and storage, a complete suite of Eco Services and the Sun Modular Datacenter. Additionally, Sun continues to look for ways to decrease its carbon footprint through programs like OpenEco.org and Sun Open Work practice, Sun's extensive flexible work program and its global datacenter consolidation initiative. For more information on Sun's Eco Responsibility Initiative, visitwww.sun.com/eco.

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 athttp://sun.com.

Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, 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 United States and other countries. Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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