Conferencing solutions provider, TANDBERG, has quantified the benefits it has reaped by using its own solutions and by encouraging its 1,500 employees to telework.
According to TANDBERG, its global employees in the last year have on average made 75,000 video calls each month, replacing unnecessary business travel with “in-person” video calls, effectively saving the company over [...]
Optical chipmaker Infineon has announced what it claims is the market’s most energy efficient integrated circuit for Gigabit Ethernet Physical Layer (PHY) solutions. According to Infineon, the XWAY PHY11G is the first IC on the market to implement the Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) guidelines, which are based on the upcoming IEEE 802.3az standard. It [...]
The Government of Nepal’s High Level Commission for Information Technology (HLCIT) has tapped IBM to help with the development of “policy, frameworks, research and solutions to support Nepal’s vision of being a smart country.”
As part of a long-term cooperation and collaboration, IBM will create an innovation policy to help the Government of Nepal achieve its [...]
Rackspace Hosting is bringing to market an offering that allows its customers to subscribe to dedicated hardware to build their own private cloud platform, instead of public cloud services that are run on multi-tenant environments. With the private cloud model, Rackspace customers will be able to centrally managed VMware virtualisation platform on their environment.
“Rackspace is [...]
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 [...]