PRESS RELEASE: HONG KONG, June 3, 2009 – HP today announced the launch of Power To Change, a campaign that encourages personal computer users around the world to make behavioral changes in support of the environment.
The campaign encourages users to download a new desktop widget that tracks the cumulative energy savings associated with participants turning [...]
If you just happen to have some spare spectrum lying around doing nothing – and there’s bound to be some players that have, here’s one way to get some value out of your investment.
Space Data, a specialist wireless communications provider to select vertical industries, has devised a plan to get some use out of a [...]
By CommsDay International
It’s not bad enough that Nortel is struggling in the midst of sorting itself out of bankruptcy in US courts, and that it is losing customers due to the uncertainty of its future, now, its competitors are moving in to take the vendor’s channel partners in one of the sectors that it has [...]
By CommsDay International
Not surprising with former BT CEO, Ben Verwaayen at the helm, Alcatel-Lucent is rapidly stepping up its environmental commitments to the market.
In its 2008 Corporate Social Responsibility report released this week, Alcatel-Lucent laid out a broad range of targets for reducing its impact on the environment, which include a 10% reduction in CO2 [...]
MTS India tapped IBM to build a pair of green data centers it believes will slash 20% from energy costs. The Indian mobile operator plans to leverage new facilities in Chennai and Gurgaon to support a forthcoming nationwide voice services rollout.
IBM will design and build the two dynamically powered data centers alongside a Network Operations [...]
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 [...]