A Silicon Valley startup with some serious clout on its executive team is proposing new service that will deliver video games from a cloud infrastructure to thin clients such as a web browser.
OnLive, founded by Steve Perlman – best known for his development of QuickTime and WebTV – recently made public its on-demand video game [...]
Telefonica and Vodafone have signed a massive deal to share network infrastructure in Germany, Spain, Ireland and the UK that would results in “cost efficiencies of hundreds of millions of pounds for each company over the 10 years.”
As part of the collaboration, the two operators, representing close of half a billion subscribers globally, will use [...]
An ITU Focus Group is proposing a standardized methodology for reporting the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of information and communications technologies.
At a meeting in Hiroshima, Japan, the ITU-T Focus Group on ICTs and Climate Change has developed a method for calculating two elements: Energy use and carbon impact arising from ICT lifecycles; and decrease in [...]
PRESS RELEASE: Nokia Siemens Networks, the first telecommunications network provider to join the WWF Climate Savers program, today announced that the company is on track to achieving its targets for reducing carbon dioxide emissions. The company presented its achievements at the Climate Savers Summit, organized by the global conservation organization WWF in Washington DC from [...]
A new report by the Alliance to Save Energy has found that US corporations now waste about US$2.8 billion in energy costs by not turning off 108 million PCs when they are not in use, thus generating the equivalent environmental impact of 20 million tons of CO2, or the same as having 4 million cars [...]
See what happens inside a Sun modular data centre container during a 6.7 earthquake!
PRESS RELEASE: GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN – MindArk PE AB, developers of the virtual world’s platform, Entropia Platform, today announced the expansion of its data center with Interxion. The company hosts the virtual Entropia Universe — an expanding universe of interoperable 3D virtual worlds. The virtual universe is set for upcoming growth with the launch of several [...]
By Petroc Wilton, Communications Day
Even as it ploughs massive investment into new data centres, Microsoft is urging the industry to view cloud computing technologies as complementary to traditional premise-based solutions rather than replacing them. Gianpaolo Carraro, DPE director at Microsoft Australia, spoke at a Sydney conference on the need to balance enthusiasm for the cloud [...]
Macquarie Telecom is calling for the Australian government to develop some kind of standard for measuring the environmental impact of data centres, in order to avoid what the company’s managing director for Hosting, Aidan Tudehope, calls, ‘green cloaking,’ by competitors.
The move by Macquarie follows the data centre recommendations by Sir Peter Gershon, former chief executive [...]
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 [...]