Solar and wind powered cell phone sites have been around for a long time, but deployments have been limited to remote areas where there’s lots of space to put in the solar panels or wind turbines needed to power the sites.
Up until this week, nobody thought such solutions would be applicable in urban environments. Now [...]
Nokia Siemens Networks says its SiteStar cooling cabinet can reduce battery cooling costs by 95% and extend the operating life of batteries by as much as three fold. SiteStar is basically a dedicated cabinet designed to contain the battery of cell sites, instead of traditional solutions using conventional air-conditioner-cooled enclosures for the whole site, and [...]
1E, the global Windows management software company and developer of the NightWatchman software for turning off office PCs during the night, has released a new press release outlining its participation in the Eden Project, an environmental education charity in the UK.
There’s nothing wrong with the project or the obvious advantage of turning PCs off at [...]
Days after I wrote about who’s on the cloud and who’s not, I came across this report from CIO magazine about another user of cloud computing platforms.
The article describes how Internet firm, ShareThis, the company that developed those ShareThis buttons on popular websites has tapped Amazon Web Services EC2 cloud to support its immense daily [...]
Mimos, a Malaysian research institution under the country’s Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, has made official earlier reports that it has joined up with the Open Cirrus cloud research initiative founded by HP, Intel and Yahoo in 2008.
According to this report from the national Malaysia news agency, Bernama, Mimos and HP Malaysia signed an [...]
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 [...]