By CommsDay International
Web hosting company Rackspace Hosting is offering customers a business carbon calculator to find out what their carbon footprint is and how to reduce it.
The firm has teamed up with NativeEnergy, a provider of third-party verified and certified renewable energy credits, to encourage customers to take steps to reduce and mitigate their global [...]
By CommsDay International
BT Professional has seen the number of customers adopting green working practices grow tenfold with its Carbon Impact Assessment Quick Start.
BT’s Carbon Impact Assessment audits an organization’s carbon emission levels and models how they can cut costs by reducing energy consumption. Its uptake was mostly seen in the security and defence sectors, which [...]
By CommsDay International
The mobile industry will face the daunting task of having to support a massive data traffic increase on networks even as corresponding revenue increases only marginally, says Nokia Siemens Networks.
As part of his keynote presentation at the Mobile World Congress, NSN CEO Simon Beresford-Wylie told the industry that by 2015, the mobile data [...]
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 [...]