PRESS RELEASE: Verizon Business has joined the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) to help promote security within the “cloud” — services delivered over the Internet. As a corporate member of the alliance, Verizon Business will lend its global security leadership to advocate for increased awareness and education concerning security best practices for the cloud. Industry expects [...]
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has launched a formal call to establish a separate statistical field of study that links ICT and the environment. In a document issued by its Directorate of Science, Technology and Industry, the OECD notes, “while the links between ICT and environmental outcomes are becoming clearer, there is no [...]
Not long after it announced its partnership with Landis_Gyr in the smart grid and energy sector, Cisco Systems has announced another partnership with another global leader – this time a builder of smart cities, Gale International. The two companies will work together to bring complementary skills, capabilities and solutions together to create smart, sustainable cities [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]