Tony Chan is a seasoned ICT journalist based in Hong Kong with a strong interest in bringing together industry leaders to foster sustainable IT and telecommunications practices, solutions and services.
Vodafone Powers Mahindra Reva’s e<sub>2</sub>o Connected Car – Vodafone vodafone.com/content/index/…
Verizon said it will start labelling the devices it sells with environmental performance data. Under the new scheme, Verizon’s devices will now feature ECO Specs Labels, which will highlight five key factors. The % of recycled content or FSC/SFI paper used in the packaging The % of recycled content in the Verizon Wireless Device Meets Verizon Wireless [...]
New Environmental Labels and Trees for Earth Day shar.es/lfE6Z via @Verizon
Singapore companies perform well in carbon rankings | TODAYonline todayonline.com/daily-focus/si…
Thoughts on Green Telecom @ Telecom Ramblings – telecomramblings.com/2013/04/though…
Facebook Plans $1 Billion Iowa Data Center energymanagertoday.com/facebook-plans…
Indus Tower goes green (sort of) @ Business Line thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-e…
Fleets Go Further with M2M @connected World – connectedworldmag.com/latestNews.asp…
Ever since data centre energy efficiency made headlines for the amount of power they consumed, and the amount of carbon emissions they generated, major content providers like Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, and many others have stepped up their efforts to be more transparent when it comes to the environmental profile of their data centre infrastructure. [...]
Facebook Plans $1 Billion Iowa Data Center energymanagertoday.com/facebook-plans…
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 [...]