Calgary, Alberta-based Userful Corporation is giving away its PC virtualisation software in the hope of getting up to 100,000 PC owners to share their computer with others in time for Earth Day on April 22.
The Userful software can create up to 10 independent workstations from a single standard PC box by simply attaching extra monitors, [...]
By CommsDay International
The recent announcement by Vodafone and Telefonica to share components of their mobile network in strategic markets in Europe will result in further outsourcing in the mobile, resulting in billions of dollars of potential savings, according to analysts and market researchers.
Following the Vodafone and Telefonica announcement, which includes the sharing of sites, joint-build [...]
You can watch Google’s Efficient Data Centers Summit on YouTube
Part 1: Standards from The Green Grid, Insights into Google’s PUE, What’s next for the data centre industry by US EPA,
Part 2: Best practices by James Hamilton of Amazon Web Services, Google Data Centre video tour, Best practices panel session,
Part 3: Sustainable data centres & water [...]
By CommsDay International
Google took the wraps of its secretive data centre installations last week at its Efficiency Data Center Summit, revealing details of its custom-designed DIY server, its PUE (power usage effectiveness) results for six facilities, a water-cooled facility in Belgium and a host of other details on its global network of data centres.
The entire [...]
A Canadian startup, iMetrik, has built an M2M remote asset tracking application using simple mobile radios and Nokia Siemens Networks’ Subscriber Data Management platform.
The application is powered by a mobile radio that is attached to any form of mobile asset, such as vehicles, which then relay information via the cellular network to any number of [...]
Video on how Microsoft intends to build data centres in the future. Also interesting is starting from about 1:55 into the video, you get to see the extensive network that Microsoft uses to connect its various facilities worldwide.
Video: Microsoft Generation 4.0 Data Center Vision
Redmond has been discussing its green data centre strategy for some time now, but this post on the Microsoft website provides a nice summary of what the company is thinking and doing. Plus, you get an aerial photo of its data centre facility in Quincy (below).
So what has the company been up to?
By CommsDay International
Norway’s Telenor has teamed up with Red Cross to recycle mobile phones and plant trees in Asia Pacific. Under the program, currently available in Telenor’s domestic market only, for each mobile phone returned by an user, the user gets 50 free SMSes for the effort while the Red Cross will plant 25 trees [...]
By CommsDay International
Cable&Wireless has productized its Telecoms Expense Management (TEM) service for customers in the Asia Pacific. The service is designed to help corporations consolidate and optimise their telecoms spending, including fixed and mobile subscriptions across multiple countries, in order to save cost and gain greater visibility over their telecoms related expenses.
The service works by [...]
By CommsDay International
AT&T has introduced a new feature that will allow companies to connect legacy videoconferencing systems to its Telepresence platform, which uses the latest high definition gear from Cisco.
The new Telepresenece Interoperability feature will be available at the end of Q2 this year, and allows companies with H.323-compatible systems to connect to Telepresence systems [...]
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 [...]