Smart electricity meters, a new generation of power meters that will relay consumption information to the consumer and to the utilities company, will offer new revenue opportunities for the telecoms industry.
According to a new study by ABI Research, the global installed base of smart electricity meters will reach 76 million in 2009, up from 49 [...]
By CommsDay International
Data centres of the future will require different infrastructure that will connect everything to a single switching fabric to support cloud computing platforms, Juniper Networks says.
The company yesterday unveiled a new program, code-named the Stratus Project, which will create a single data centre fabric with ‘a quantum jump in scale, performance and simplicity.’
Originally [...]
By CommsDay International
A survey has found that cloud computing is driven by essentially the same factor – to reduce cost – for corporate users regardless of size or industry.
The new 2009 Cloud Computing Trends report by US-based hosting provider, Hosting.com, shows that the driving factors for cloud computing services remain overwhelming based on cost reduction.
The [...]
Dell Computers has signed a global reseller agreement with Reflex Systems, the provider of the Reflex VMC (Virtual Management Centre), a solution that helps corporations managed virtualized data centre environments. The agreement authorizes Dell’s worldwide direct and channel sales forces to resell the Reflex VMC.
According to Reflex, the VMC is designed to help customers managed [...]
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 [...]