After its push into smart grids, Cisco Systems has identified another major segment where its technology can play a role in the fight against climate change – buildings.
The company announced (officially – since it has already done a lot of work in the area) Smart Connected Buildings as its latest emerging technology, which is now [...]
In a presentation to a conference in San Francisco, Willy Chiu, vice president of IBM Cloud Labs, revealed major government initiatives to adopt cloud computing in China and Vietnam, as well as major cloud initiatives in South Africa and the Middle East.
Chiu says that in rolling out cloud platforms across the world, IBM is now [...]
By Petroc Wilton, Communications Day
Cisco sees virtualisation underpinning a major move to the cloud over the next few years and is locking in a strategy for extending the role of the network in the transition. CommsDay attended an international roundtable, led by CTO Padmasree Warrior and software group SVP Doug Dennerline via multi-point videoconference, that [...]
By Patrick Neighly, CommsDay International
US video operators may use cloud storage techniques in lieu of DVRs to provide time-shift viewing services. That’s the upshot of a Supreme Court refusal to hear a legal challenge to Cablevision Systems’ proposed VOD service, which sparked Hollywood outrage by replacing set-top boxes with centralized remote servers housed at its [...]
Several top handset makers including Nokia have agreed to develop a universal charger for the European market.
Ten suppliers inked a memorandum of understanding to use Micro USB connectors for their phone chargers rather than continue forward with the countless proprietary formats that have bedeviled consumers.
The agreement was prompted by a European Commission threat to legislate [...]
If your answer is no, or you’re not sure, you are hardly alone according to a new survey of IT professionals by document management company, Version One.
The survey of 60 senior IT professionals found 41% who admitted that they “don’t know” what cloud computing is. Of the remaining 59% of IT professionals who profess to [...]
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 [...]