Global business center operator, Regus, has launched what it calls the world’s first publicly available telepresence suite in its facilities in London.
The site, located in Regus’ Berkeley Square location in Central London, will feature Polycom’s RealPresence Experience High Definition immersive telepresence system and is part of a joint initiative with Cable&Wireless Worldwide worth £32 million [...]
Solar panels and an ice cooling system could reduce the energy costs of a new facility from US operator, i/o Data Centers.
According to this report in Data Center Knowledge, the i/o’s new 538,000 sq. ft. Phoenix ONE facility will feature a 4.5-megawatt solar power system to supplement its overall energy draw from the grid [...]
US based data centre and telecoms exchange operator, Telx, has launched a new video optimized interconnection platform that will let enterprises hook up their video conferencing systems with each other.
Branded as the Telx Video Xchange, the new interexchange service basically offers enterprises a carrier neutral loation to interconnect their video conferencing and Telepresence equipment with [...]
Mirroring similar initiatives outlined by the Japanese and US governments, the UK is calling for the adoption of cloud computing services for future government ICT requirements.
“All those Government bodies likely to procure ICT services should look to do so on a scaleable, cloud basis such that other public bodies can benefit from the new capability,” [...]
Technology majors, AT&T and Microsoft, further their plans into the smart grid space last week with separate announcements on the emergence of M2M sensors and communications.
AT&T announced that it has entered into an agreement with Cooper Power Systems to jointly market smart grid sensor devices to electricity utilities. The two companies will bring to market [...]
US Energy Secretary Steven Chu has pegged the figure US$3.9 billion as the government’s budget for funding smart grid developments in the country, including US$90 million for the state of California for energy efficiency measures.
According to this report in Reuters, Chu told reporters on the sidelines of an Edison Electric Institute conference in San Francisco [...]
Australia’s competitive operator, Telarus, has set up a cloud computing platform offering virtualized hosting services, but under the unconventional model of private access over its MPLS platform.
While most definitions of cloud computing requires a necessary ability to have access from everywhere, the core differentiator of the Telarus Virtual Server Platform offering is that its primary [...]
HP unveiled a series of consulting services to help enterprise customers considering the adoption of cloud computing capabilities in their IT infrastructure. The new offerings, including the HP Cloud Discovery Workshop and HP Cloud Roadmap Service, are part of a larger portfolio of HP consulting services for enterprise customers looking at cloud services.
“While many organizations [...]
Huawei Technologies says that its SingleRAN (single radio access network) platform now offers significant savings for mobile operators struggling with multiple technologies and services on their networks.
Robert Fox, chief branding officer at Huawei, told Green Telecom Live that SingleRAN is designed with a core set of components, including a single set of batteries, power supply [...]
The world’s largest mobile operator by subscriber, China Mobile, has made the ambitious pledge of reducing its energy consumption per unit of revenue by 40% of its 2005 levels by next year, according to a report attributed to the China Daily.
The operator’s target would effectively see a 8 billion kWh reduction in energy consumption, and [...]
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 [...]