Summary of presentation by Leonard Chan, senior manager of Future Technologies, Macquarie Hosting at the Green Telecom Session of the CommsDay Melbourne Congress.
The shift towards cloud based software as a service models will be essential in driving efficiencies of the global ICT industry, says Leonard Chan at Macquarie Hosting.
The fact is, Chan highlighted, if unabated, [...]
Summary of presentation by Graham Smith, general manager, BT Australasia, Global Banking and Finance at the Green Telecom Session of the CommsDay Melbourne Congress.
While the current economic downturn may have dampen the focus on corporate sustainability, BT’s Smith outlined a number of sustainable practices implemented by BT over the past decade that has not only [...]
Summary of presentation by Dr Christopher Pavlovski, chief architect, technology and innovation, IBM Australia at the Green Telecom Session of the CommsDay Melbourne Congress.
Dr Pavlovski was asked to speak about IBM’s experience in helping to build several smart grids in Australia, specifically about the network requirements for smart grids and why utilities companies are largely [...]
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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 [...]