The chairman and CEO of semiconductor manufacturer, Applied Materials, Michael Splinter, has urged the Taiwanese government to migrate the country’s considerable technology manufacturing clout to the renewable energy sector, particular silicon-based solar energy.
According to DigiTimes, Splinter said at a press conference last week that the Taiwanese government needs to adopt a more aggressive renewable energy [...]
The Korean government is getting ready to launch a major smart grid initiative to create a market worth some 68 trillion won (US$54.5bn), according to this report in the Korea Times.
In a conference between government officials and industry representatives, the Ministry of Knowledge Economy said Korea’s smart grid project would create 500,000 new jobs annually [...]
By Pamela Perez, CommsDay International
Green means cheaper. That was the view of a panel session looking at green ICT technologies in Singapore last week.
The bottom line of green it is cost savings, said IDC’s Tim Dillon. “It’s a big one because it’s three-quarter of all organisations are telling us that is one of the key [...]
TradeBeam, a provider of a supply-chain management software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution, has deployed VMware’s vSphere technology in its data center, transforming its infrastructure into a cloud computing platform.
“Cloud computing is the future for us, and VMware vSphere 4 is an ideal platform,” said Nasser Mirzai, vice president of IT at TradeBeam. “In our business, prospective customers [...]
The ZigBee Alliance, which promotes a set of low power wireless home networking technologies based on the IEEE 802.15.4 physical radio standard, is positioning its platform as an industry standard for smart meter applications.
The Alliance announced at the end of May that it’s Smart Energy public application profile has been endorsed by the European Smart [...]
Intel has agreed to purchase all outstanding shares of Wind River Systems for US$11.50 per share in a deal worth about US$884 million. The acquisition of Wind River, a vendor of software for embedded devices, is part of Intel’s strategy to grow its processor and software presence outside the traditional PC and server market segments, [...]
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 [...]