PRESS RELEASE: SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwire – April 22, 2009) – As part of Earth Day, Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) and the City and County of San Francisco today announced Urban EcoMap, an Internet-based tool that enables cities around the world to provide smarter climate change information for their citizens. For the first time, Urban EcoMap gives [...]
New market analysis by Ovum has identified a growing focus by Asian operators and vendors in the telepresence space. According to a comment by Ovum analyst, Lucy Arole, the telepresence landscape is changing in the region as local companies such as China’s CPCNet and Huawei Technolgoies are emerging to challenge traditional players in the telepresence [...]
Following the launch of public telepresence points by Tata Communications, a host of companies are jumping on the bandwagon with similar offerings and capabilities that bring high definition video communications into the public domain. This week, Cable & Wireless announced that it has joined up with Regus, the business centre operator, to introduce a public [...]
US technology integrator, Logicalis, has launched a green IT calculator – basically a website – that is aimed at helping companies determine the potential benefits of virtualisation and consolidation. On the site, enterprise customers can input values such as the number of PCs, servers, blades, storage arrays, storage switches and network devices, and the calculator [...]
By Petroc Wiltom, Communications Day Telstra is aiming to lead by example on environmental sustainability, joining with the World Wildlife Fund Australia to launch a whitepaper on the subject via videoconference across five cities. Participants in the conference included Minister for Climate Change and Water Penny Wong, who welcomed the paper’s objectives: to highlight how [...]
Swedish gardening and outdoor equipment producer Husqvarna has incorporated GSM technology into a new robot that mows and fertilises your lawn all on its own lonesome. The Automower 260 ACX now comes built in with its own GSM account and will text the owner when it needs attention. The reason why the Automower 260 actually [...]
By CommsDay International IBM announced plans for a Hong Kong cloud computing lab. The facility will be located in the Cyberport complex and serve as a global hub for Internet messaging services related to its the LotusLive enterprise cloud service. “We are happy to note that IBM, one of the world-renowned leaders in innovation and [...]
New Jersey-based Intergis LLC says that use of its mobile resource management and logistics technologies has led to a reduction in the number of miles travelled by the fleet of one of its customers by up to 20%. American Signature Furniture (ASF) has reaped significant ROI and reduced emissions using the company’s Visual Control Room [...]
Video communications can reduce the need for travel by 30%, says Tandberg, who has published a list of 10 applications that businesses can implement to reduce their carbon emissions. According to Tandberg, its 1,400 employees conduct more than 75,000 video conferencing and telepresence calls monthly. That’s a staggering 53 calls per employee per month, or [...]
PRESS RELEASE: Polycom, Inc., the worldwide leader in telepresence, video and voice communications solutions, has been recognised as having the dominant market share in video conferencing endpoints across the Asia Pacific region by consulting company, Frost & Sullivan. In its recently released research, entitled “Asia Pacific Video Conferencing Endpoints Market, 2008”, Frost & Sullivan found [...]
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 [...]