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 [...]
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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 [...]