We know that the Japanese government is interested in cloud computing, but other cloud initiatives outside the US has been few and far in between.
Despite the tremendous hype in the industry for cloud computing, and the popularity of cloud services – i.e. Gmail, salesforce.com and so on, the roll out of cloud infrastructure, established those [...]
It’s long understood that when someone like Google goes out to build a data centre, one of the key parameters for their choice of location is the availability of cheap, abundant, and preferably, clean, energy. Another is the availability of sufficient bandwidth at right prices to connect those facilities the global information grid. The concept [...]
Telenor Pakistan, a subsidiary of Norway’s Telenor, have sourced NSN to implement an energy efficient GSM network that will enable the operator to reduce energy consumption of new sites by 50%. The companies say over 80% of a mobile operator’s energy use happens in the network.
Under the new plan, NSN will build a network using [...]
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 [...]