HP introduced what it calls its Extreme Scale-Out (ExSO) portfolio of servers and solutions for the high performance requirements of Web 2.0 and cloud computing environments last week. The new portfolio centers around a new skinless, tray-based, server design – instead of the traditional chassis and rack system – in a new server line, ProLiant [...]
Ice, the frozen property of water, is a kind of natural storage system for energy. You can use energy to take temperature out of water to get ice, which can then be used later to take temperature out of other things, like a glass of soda, or the hot air coming out of servers inside [...]
Cutting edge technologies developed to make race cars working at their optimum peak should be adopted by the auto industry to drive efficiencies inside cars and on the road, says the ITU and Formula One organiser, FIA.
This report by Carz Unlimited, Max Mosley, head of FIA, noted at the ITU’s annual Fully Networked Car event [...]
The telecoms industry has four main goals when it comes to going green and achieving sustainability, says the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS), a technical planning and standards development organizations for the industry, who more or less summed it up in its Report on Environmental Sustainability earlier this month.
Developed by the ATIS Exploratory Group [...]
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 [...]