ABI Research has placed HP at the top of a new “Green Data Centre” vendor matrix, which analyses vendors according to their “innovation” and “implementation” across several criteria.
For the matrix, under “innovation,” ABI Research examined the firms’ carbon footprints, their regulatory compliance, recycling efforts, their efforts at “greening” internal operations, their use of video and [...]
HP and SunPower announced the completion of a 1.1 megawatt solar-electric power system on the roof of HP’s printing technology R&D facility in San Diego.
Under the deal, first made public last December, SunPower will install its SunPower T10 Solar Roof Tile commercial roof system on behalf of GE Energy Financial Services, who will own the [...]
Australia ISP, Internode, says it will now purchase all its power from green sources despite having to pay a 20% premium on its electricity supply.
Internode, which achieved carbon neutral status last year through the purchase of carbon credit offsets, will now buy green power in Australia from ‘fully audited sources,’ says Internode managing director Simon [...]
The emerging capabilities of cloud computing environments holds the potential to drive efficiency of IT infrastructure as much as 100 fold, according to estimates of one application services provider.
READ the full interview with Graham Weston here
According to the chairman of Rackspace Hosting, Graham Weston, cloud computing, by driving up the utilization of data centre infrastructure, [...]
Green Telecom’s Tony Chan speaks to Rackspace Hosting chairman, Graham Weston, on the company’s approach to green practices, what’s makes a green data centre and what’s the real significance of virtualisation.
Green Telecom: So what is Rackspace Hosting’s approach to ‘green’ practices?
Graham Weston: Two three years ago, we actually switched to AMD processors because they drew [...]
French operator Orange will display environmental ratings for both fixed and mobile phones on its Web site and retail stores starting this month.
The initiative, part of a partnership with WWF-France, will display 5 categories of information on the environmental impact of phones for consumers.
“Orange and WWF France have opted to evaluate the environmental performance of [...]
Nortel’s director of enterprise technology, Tony Rybczynski, writes in his blog that the sum emissions from the world’s install base of Cisco equipment is equivalent to over a trillion kilometres of travel in a small car.
“Across some 500 million Cisco enterprise ports globally, Cisco is adding an additional 11.5 MILLION metric tons of CO2, [...]
Nokia Siemens Networks claims that the energy efficient characteristics of its Flexi Base Station has won the company a US$225 million turnkey network expansion deal with UAE operator, du.
The new contract includes a radio access solution that will support 2G, 3G and HSPA platforms and enables du to extend its network to cater for four [...]
The keynote speaker for the CommsDay Melbourne Congress’ Green Telecom Day, Chloe Munro, Telstra’s executive director for innovation projects for the digital future, blasted the Garnaut report’s neglect of telecoms’ role in fighting climate change. Access her keynote presentation as well as slide decks from prominent speakers at our inaugural event in Melbourne here
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 [...]