People might want detail information on their energy usage from ‘smart meters’ and ‘smart grids’ but only a small majority will be willing to pay for them. According to this article by Greenwire and posted on the New York Times website, only 20% of the respondents of an Oracle survey of 604 consumers and 200 [...]
By CommsDay International Rackspace Hosting is launching pay-as-you-go server instances as part of its cloud services offering today. The Cloud Servers service, offered through the company’s Mosso division and hosted out of the company’s main US data centre, will allow access to on-demand server compute capacity over the Internet for US$0.015 (one and a half [...]
By CommsDay International The current industry buzz surrounding cloud services is too limited in its definition and does not match the variety of services that are already delivered under a ‘cloud’ model to global enterprises, says AT&T’s cloud computing expert. According to Joe Weinman, AT&T vice president for strategic solution sales and author of several [...]
Green Telecom Editor Tony Chan spoke recently to the Joe Weinman, AT&T leader for strategy solutions sales and a well established expert on cloud computing, on what makes the company’s long history, global network and enterprise support capabilities bring to this space.
AT&T last week revealed plans to spend just over a half a billion dollars as part of a 10-year fleet modernisation program that will introduce more than 15,000 new energy efficient and environmentally-friendly cars into its corporate fleet. AT&T expects to spend an estimated US$350 million to purchase about 8,000 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) vehicles [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]