The US Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) has put in six Tandberg telepresence systems in its locations across the US, according to York Telecom, the New Jersey-based systems integrator and communications provider.
“With the mission of strengthening the United States’ energy security, environmental quality, and economic vitality in public-private partnerships, [...]
Toronto-based cloud platform developer, Enomaly, says the launch program of its Elastic Computing Platform, Service Provider Edition – essentially a white-label cloud platform – was oversubscribed and that it had to limit the phase-1 group of customers to 10 cloud operators worldwide.
According to Enomaly, the ECP, Service Provider Edition can host Microsoft Windows, Linux, or [...]
The IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional association, is stepping up its involvement in the smart grid following the launch of its IEEE P2030 project to develop standards in the space. In addition to standards and interoperability work on smart grid by its members, the organization is announced that it will host several conferences 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 [...]