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 [...]
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 [...]