Polycom has added a partial managed services support option for its immersive telepresence solutions, giving its customers the option to support deployments with in-house resources or through partial or complete outsourced services. According to the Polycom, the company service partners can now offer a new Assisted Operations Service (AOS) in addition to existing fully managed [...]

Dell has unveiled what it calls the broadest line of US EPA Energy Star 5.0-compliant desktops, workstations and portables. According to the company, select configurations of Dell OptiPlex, Dell Precision and Latitude are now Energy Star 5.0 compliant. Almost all of the desktops, workstation and portable products designed by the company today consume less than [...]

Nokia and Vodafone claim that they have developed a new antenna solution that will help operators improve cost efficiencies in their mobile network and reduce overall carbon emissions. The so-called, Active Antenna solution was successfully tested by the two companies as part of a recently announced initiative called, the Nokia Siemens Networks Innovation Centre, or [...]

Storage management and disaster recovery software maker, Acronis, has unveiled a new online calculator that measures the potential cost savings of applying its data deduplication technology. The deduplication calculator works by prompting users for the number of servers and workstations being backed up, the data change rate, and the cost of data storage and then [...]

I wrote an article recently for CommsDay International on Fujitsu’s plans to launch a global cloud initiative. Fujitsu, like other technology vendors, Sun and Microsoft, is also getting into the cloud business with its own data centre facilities and even multi-tier cloud offering. The move makes sense, since Fujitsu is already a global services company [...]

It seems a little bit of an overkill to solve data centre cooling issues, but the graphic itself is worth a post. According to CFdesign, a number of companies have deployed its upfront CFD (computational fluid dynamics) software and its Consulting Services Team to analyst air flow and to optimise cooling in their data centres. [...]

Like any new technology, the emergence of smart grids has not managed to avoid some kind of controversy. There doesn’t seem to be anything wrong with the technology per se, but all the benefits of a smart grid and smart meter deployment is enabling a new set of business models (read charging models) that not [...]

At least two big IT names, IBM and Cisco, will be headlining a trial by Dutch utility, Nuon, to put in a smart grid for 500 homes in Amsterdam. As part of the trial, 500 households in Amsterdam will get smart meters and home energy management solutions to optimise their energy usage. The pilot is [...]

A new report released by Vodafone and Accenture says that the use of mobile communications can reduce the annual energy bill for Europe by a €43 billion, equivalent to an annual reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by at least 113 Mt CO2e (metric ton carbon dioxide equivalents) by 2020. The figure equals about 2.4% of [...]

A new report released by Vodafone and Accenture says that the use of mobile communications can reduce the annual energy bill for Europe by a €43 billion, equivalent to an annual reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by at least 113 Mt CO2e (metric ton carbon dioxide equivalents) by 2020. The figure equals about 2.4% of [...]