By Grahame Lynch
Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo is no muddle-headed greenie. He has been an aggressive critic of government regulation and is a former campaign adviser for US Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain.
Yet Telstra has emerged as one of the most prominent advocates of green technology and practices in world telecommunications. And it’s no [...]
By Tim Marshall, Communications Day
Macquarie Hosting says it awarded a $1 million supply deal to Sun Microsystems based on energy saving criteria. It claims the new equipment will drive up to 60% less energy usage compared to current systems.
Macquarie managing director Aidan Tudehope says Sun’s selection followed a six months energy monitoring project across its [...]
Despite high energy consumption by data centre installations, only a fraction of a fraction of the power goes to actually processing data inside existing facilities.
India’s booming wireless industry is stretching the country’s power supply, especially as mobile operators continue to expand their networks to more remote and less developed parts of the country.
According to Jacob Mathew, general manager – projects for Idea Cellular, one of the biggest challenges of rolling out network infrastructure in the country is finding enough [...]
In just two weeks, the leading mobile network operators, Ericsson, Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) and Motorola, each made significant announcements on their efforts to combat climate change by implementing alternative energy-powered infrastructure and introducing more energy-efficient systems to cut carbon emissions.
In addition to the overwhelming evident of green awareness by the mobile equipment vendors, solutions [...]
A new Symantec study of data centre trends in Global 2000 enterprises and public sector institutions have revealed widespread interest in green data centre adoption. According to the Symantec Green Data Centre report, conducted in September 2007 by Ziff Davis Enterprise, nearly three quarters of the respondents expressed interest in green data strategies, while one [...]
Panduit, a provider of structured cabling and data centre infrastructures, sees a huge potential market as Chinese organizations begin its next technology upgrade cycle towards more reliable and energy efficient solutions.
“In the past, many Chinese companies and even multinationals operating inside China invested in low-costs equipment and facilities,” says Ning Liu, Panduit’s product, solutions [...]
Australian datacenter operator, Metronode, has launched plans to significantly increase its data centre capacity across the country to meet an anticipated rise in demand from the business sector.
Phase I of the project will see the expansion of Metronode’s existing facilities in Sydney, Brisbane and Perth bymid-2008. Phase II includes the installation of new facilities in [...]
IBM launched a new initiative on 2 November that will allow its clients to trade their energy savings for cash or credit. IBM, which recently launched its “Big Green” initiative to help corporations implement more energy efficient systems for their data centres, will award IBM Efficiency Certificates to its customers who take steps to reduce [...]
Nokia Siemens Networks is looking to revolutionise the mobile network with is Liquid Radio architecture, which not only promises to re-architect today’s base station infrastructure, but also to ultimately bridge the gap between highly specialise (and expensive) telecoms equipment and commoditise (cost competitive) computer components. Green Telecom Live talks to Mike Murphy, head of Technology [...]
Interview with Telenor Connexion: Inside the world of M2M
Telenor Connexion, the unit of the Telenor Group focused on the machine-to-machine market, has been developing and deploying M2M applications for customers for the past decade. Green Telecom Live speaks with Gwenn Larsson, head of marketing at Telenor Connexion, about what makes M2M different from the rest of the mobile industry and the kinds of [...]
Verne Global outlines Iceland data centre plans
Two years after we first published the Icelandic government’s plans to promote the building of data centres on its shores, a venture capital-backed start tup, Verne Global, is looking to make it a reality.
Verne Global, backed by General Catalysts from Boston, Novator in London and the Wellcome Trust, is now constructing a wholesale data centre [...]
Next gen data centre architecture Part 2: Cisco’s Unified Computing
Cisco this month unveiled what some company executives dubbed one of the biggest announcements for the network equipment maker – ever. With the announcement of its Unified Computing, Cisco officially enters the computing space, although not quite as previous speculation in the industry had outlined. Instead of just producing its own blade server, Cisco unveiled [...]
Next gen data centre architecture Part 1: Juniper’s single switching fabric
In the past couple of weeks, cloud computing has really taken off, with both service providers, server makers, and switching vendors all making big announcements on service deployments and new gear designed for cloud operating environments.
Specifically, both Juniper and Cisco made significant announcements in their vision of a next generation data centre environment that can [...]