PRESS RELEASE: NEW YORK – February 27, 2009 – The Obama administration’s economic recovery package includes commitments to work towards a sustainable, energy-efficient future. With the world’s servers currently consuming some 408 MWh of electricity, the effort is certainly needed. In fact it has been under way for some time in some of the United [...]
A NASA satellite that would have served as a space-bound monitoring system for carbon emissions and capture across the globe failed to reach orbit at 01:55 PST as it was launched from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base.
If the mission had been successful, the Orbiting Carbon Observatory would have been the first instrument to relay detailed [...]
By CommsDay International
Less than a month since it announced a US$180 million new data centre facility in Singapore, Tata Communications unveiled plans to expand its data centre capacity in the UK.
The new facility, dubbed London 2, is a 21,400 square foot data centre located 25 miles from the actual city. According to Tata, the location [...]
By CommsDay International
NTT DoCoMo is reportedly trialing technologies that will reduce overall CO2 emission from a new data centre by 50% over its existing facilities.
The company recently unveiled a new facility at its Tachikawa Building in Tokyo that will introduce key technologies and designs aimed at improving the facility’s energy efficiency. DoCoMo will start trials [...]
By CommsDay International
Rackspace Hosting, the global hosting service provider, will open its first Australian office next month in Sydney, the company’s MD, Asia Pacific, Jim Fagan told CommsDay in Hong Kong this week.
“We have a lot of Australian customers hosting with us in the US, mostly due to the bandwidth issues out of Australia, we [...]
Polycom and TWICE (Two-Way Interactive Connections in Education) are sponsoring the Read Around the Planet 2009 project, which will link up more than 1,750 classrooms and some 52,000 students from five countries with video conferencing sessions.
A fourth-grader in Berrien Springs, Michigan shares artwork and a story with fourth graders in Carthage, New York over video [...]
By CommsDay International
A new study by Forrester Consulting has found that companies that have deployed Juniper’s JUNOS network operating system are reporting significant operational cost savings.
Among the top-line results of the Juniper-commissioned study, corporations can reduce network operations costs by 41% based on dollar savings across specific task categories, including planned events, reduction in frequency [...]
A new survey commissioned by IT consultancy, Avanade, has found that cloud computing is now a reality for a large portion of companies worldwide. The survey, conducted by Kelton Research, is based on interviews with 502 C-level executives and IT decision makers across 17 countries in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.
The findings showed that [...]
PRESS RELEASE: IBM (NYSE: IBM) and the Ontario Centres of Excellence today launched a pilot project that gives university students, professors, and other researchers anytime, anywhere access to some of IBM’s leading business software via cloud computing.
Cloud computing is an emerging compute model for delivering and consuming IT capabilities as a service. This Tools as [...]
PRESS RELEASE:Vendor-Neutral Recommendations Optimize Power and Cooling Infrastructure and Plan for Future Growth or Consolidation
APC by Schneider Electric, a global leader in integrated critical power and cooling services, today announced the launch of the Electrical Efficiency Assessment Service designed to address the growing concern of energy efficiency in the data center.
Delivered by APC’s global Professional [...]
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 [...]