By Petroc Wilton, Communications Day
While the FTTP NBN may augur a shift to a new digital economy in the next decade, Nortel is looking to usher in the future of communications today in the shape of a corporate virtual world. The firm has developed a new virtual environment technology named Project Chainsaw, already garnering interest [...]
Syracuse University, New York State and IBM has signed an agreement to build a new 6,000 sq. ft. data center that will be one of the most energy efficient facilities in the world.
The key system will be an onsite electrical co-generation system that will use natural gas-fueled microturbine engines to generate all the power required [...]
Nortel launched a big new data centre core switch and a new Energy Saver feature for its products at this year’s Interop show.
First off, the company unveiled its VSP (virtual services platform) 9000 data centre switch, which now features an architecture that scales up to 27Tbps per chassis or over 100Tbps in a quad-chassis rack. [...]
IBM announced last week that it is making $3 billion available to finance IT initiatives in key economic stimulus projects in Europe and Asia Pacific through IBM Global Financing, IBM’s lending and leasing business segment. The funding includes about $2 billion for Europe and $1 billion for Asia Pac, the company said.
The announcement follows the [...]
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 [...]