Green Telecom talks to Sun Microsystems Asia Pacific CTO Angus MacDonald on the company’s motivations behind its annual carbon reporting survey of Australian businesses, the company’s internal environmental strategy, and the Australian government’s proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme.
With the Australian government proposing to implement a carbon cap and trade policy, there is now a growing need for corporations to be aware of their carbon profile, says a senior executive from Sun Microsystems.
In an exclusive interview with Green Telecom, Sun’s Asia Pacific Chief Technology Officer, Angus MacDonald says that corporations will begin facing [...]
IBM has built a virtual green data centre inside its ‘property’ in Second Life, the virtual world created by Linden Lab.
The virtual green data centre will feature IBM’s energy efficient servers and storage systems, as well as examples of green data best practices and demos of energy management, virtualization and IBM Tivoli green data centre [...]
Big Green has taken the principles behind the Sigma Six concept for operational efficiency and applied it to help corporations implement their environmental strategy.
“There’s a fundamental truth to understanding and improving any aspect of a company’s performance – if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” said Dave Lubowe, global leader of IBM’s operations [...]
Wipro has jumped on the green bandwagon by entering into a new pact with the India chapter of the WWF. The two organizations will collaborate in the areas of innovative IT and R&D applications for environmental sustainability.
Some of the areas of joint work would be related to IT solutions as drivers for low carbon economy [...]
Global exchange centre operator, Equinix, has joined the US EPA’s program to study the feasibility of establishing an ENERGY STAR rating program for green data centres.
Equinix’s participation in the program will include the collection of 12 consecutive months of IT and data center energy use data from June 2008 through June 2009 from a sampling [...]
APC by Schneider Electric, a systems provider of data centre power and cooling solutions, has announced a next generation full cell that offer emission-free electricity for backing up data centre facilities.
APC’s next generation FCXR, which produces emission free electrical backup power using air and stored hydrogen, is available in 10 kW increments up to 30 [...]
Daniel G Bauer, the author of the Insight Research report on telecom’s carbon abatement potential, commented on my earlier coverage on the report. The information is so good that I’ve decided to put it on the main page.
Bauer: As the author of the GREEN Communications report, and on behalf of Insight Research Corporation, I want [...]
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 [...]