Increased flexibility and efficiency, as well as disaster recovery requirements will drive the adoption of its newly launched Synaptic Hosting platform in Singapore, says AT&T. As part of a US$1 billion investment commitment for 2008 to its global network infrastructure, AT&T recently upgraded its Singapore data centre to a so-called, Super IDC (Internet data centre), [...]

British Telecom is taking its internal sustainability practices and applying the principles to its supply chain here in Asia. Peter Beaudoin, who is responsible for BT’s sustainability efforts in Asia, says the operator is now putting more emphasis on corporate social responsibility practices of its suppliers when tendering contracts, to the point of actually visiting [...]

The global financial market meltdown is driving mobile operators to optimise their assets, according to network performance management tools vendor Aircom. “With the credit crunch, there’s been a little bit of a change of what we’ve been demand for,” said Margaret Rice-Jones, CEO at Aircom. “There’s far more demand for things that make the most [...]

By CommsDay AT&T threw open the doors of its Singapore super IDC yesterday, evolving a previous installation into a regional Internet gateway and local base for its Synaptic Hosting operations. The carrier said the launch is part of a previously announced $1 billion plan to augment capacity at its 38 international data centers. It marks [...]

By Sonia Han, CommsDay NEC Australia has launched an integrated SaaS application store, ‘Applications Net’, which provides third party and NEC-developed software and telephony services via a single portal targeting small and mid-sized businesses. Independent application vendors and developers will be able to add their software to the service. The portal was developed at NEC’s [...]

IT infrastructure and services company Digital Sense has opened the first part of a new data centre in Brisbane, Australia which, it says, will eventually make up the largest and highest density data complex across the world. Digital Sense claims that the Kenmore facility will be able to support the load of ten typical data [...]

By Sonia Han, CommsDay Telstra has launched a new monthly capped plan for its enterprise and government customers which allows them to bundle their video conferencing with hardware, data access, connectivity and usage. The service will initially be available for metro sites with plans to roll out to regional Australia in 2009. The new approach [...]

By Sonia Han, CommsDay NEC Australia has launched an integrated SaaS application store, ‘Applications Net’, which provides third party and NEC-developed software and telephony services via a single portal targeting small and mid-sized businesses. Independent application vendors and developers will be able to add their software to the service. The portal was developed at NEC’s [...]

By Pamela Perez, CommsDay Huawei has joined an environmental group for the ICT sector, making the Chinese firm the only Asian member of the Global e-Sustainability Initiative. With the move, Huawei hopes to influence the development of the global ICT industry together with other major players outside Asia. “As people around the world are becoming [...]

By Sonia Han, CommsDay Hosted contact centre provider Global Speech Networks has said that hosted services can thrive in the economic downturn where retaining customers becomes a priority. The company MD Nick Rodda told CommsDay that it isn’t all doom and gloom for the Australian ICT industry in the financial crisis. He said that despite [...]