A new study by US real estate specialist, Grubb & Ellis, has identified a pending shortage of data center space in the US. According to this report by DataCenterKnowledge, the situation is becoming critical for companies with large requirements.
Jim Kerrigan, director at Grubb & Ellis’ National Data Center Group says there’s only six sites in [...]
Slashdot has an article that notes that Amazon Web Services might go open source. Based on a OStatic report that cites rumours cited by open cloud evangelist, Reuven Cohen, Amazon, whose APIs for its EC2 and S3 cloud offerings are deemed by Cohen as ‘the defacto standard’ for cloud services, is investigating the possibility [...]
By Pamela Perez, CommsDay International
Vodafone’s collaboration with Huawei on developing new base stations has seen the launch of a 2G base station designed for use in rural communities in developing markets. The EasyGSM is an IP-based compact BTS that has been designed and developed with Vodafone the two firms’ joint Radio Mobile Innovation Centre based [...]
Taiwan’s Acer Computers this week said it will be launching a couple of computers, likely netbooks, by the end of this year that will use Google’s Android operating system. While such as device has been widely anticipated in the market since the introduction of the OS on phones, the announcement does signify a breakthrough of [...]
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 [...]