San Diego’s largest co-location provider, American Internet Services, have detailed its year-long efforts to improve energy efficiency through the adoption of some standards based technologies. While the information doesn’t yield any breakthroughs in their design and implementation, it does show how existing data center facilities operators can generate significant power savings by adopting some [...]
Less than a month after it took the stealth shield off of its data centre operations, Yahoo is again making news with the construction of what the company claims may be the world’s most energy efficient data centre.
According to this blog post by David Filo, co-founder and Chief Yahoo, the company’s new data centre, to [...]
Chinese telecoms equipment vendor, ZTE, says that its new software defined radio (SDR) based HSPA+ network for Hong Kong mobile operator, CSL (a wholly-owned unit of Telstra), is helping the the operator reduce its overall network energy consumption by as much as 39%.
ZTE claimed a major milestone yesterday, asserting that it has managed to seamlessly [...]
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 [...]