By Communications Day
Leighton Contractors has partnered with Springfield Land Corporation to bring innovations to the Australian data centre market.
These include data centre design, construction, operations and finance capabilities that will offer “new generation and energy-efficient” data centres across the country. Leighton Contractors infrastructure investment GM Peter Hicks said the two companies will provide “efficient and [...]
By Petroc Wilton, Communications Day
Cisco has revealed the place of its new line of blade servers amidst a larger bid for the lion’s share of the data centre market: its Unified Computing model, heralded by the firm as the beginning of a new era for the data centre.
The firm claimed that its Unified Computing System [...]
By Petroc Wilton, Communications Day
As the initial shock of the financial crisis yields to a market focus on long-term cost savings, videoconferencing specialist Tandberg is buoyant about its Australian prospects. With offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Canberra, Australia & NZ regional director Philip Siefert is looking to grow the company’s 30-strong local team further [...]
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 [...]