Data centre and telecoms facility operator Telehouse has pledged to use 100% renewable energy to power its London Docklands site.
The site, which houses the IT infrastructure of almost 500 major international organisations, will now purchase 100% of its energy from UK renewable energy provider, SmartestEnergy.
According to Telehouse, SmartestEnergy buys energy from independent generators from around [...]
Yet another research report citing the vast potential of the cloud computing market. This time, it is Global Industry Analysts, based in San Jose, projecting a global market worth US$127 billion by 2017.
The primary driver for the clouds, according to GIA, is factors such as growing prominence of enterprise mobility, need for business continuity, and [...]
China Mobile is reportedly planning to build a massive cloud computing facility in Inner Mongolia that will house some 40,000 servers for its data services.
The site, to be located in the city of Hohhot, is expected to cost 12 billion yuan, or US$1.9 billion. The operator has already signed a MoU with the regional government [...]
NTT America, in collaboration with several global affiliates, says it will be able to save some 7.6 million kWh of power – equalled to more than US$630,000 in energy costs and over 10 million lbs of CO2 – per year with improvements on how it cools its two largest North American data centres.
Core to the [...]
One of the biggest wholesale data centre facilities operators, Digital Realty Trust, has released a couple of videos – via its PR agency – on energy efficiency in the data centres.
The first is on the company’s view on PUE.
While there are no surprises in terms of the company’s definition of PUE, Adil Attlassy, vice president [...]
Verne Global, the UK-based firm building a wholesale data centre facility in Iceland, says it is now officially open for business.
Services are available from the company’s 18-hectacre campus in Kelfavik, Iceland, a location with key operating advantages that providers well over 50% cost savings over traditional data centres in Europe or New York, the company [...]
Following Google’s decision to build three new data centres in Asia, I dug up this oldish interview with Sunny Lee, Executive Director for IT at Hong Kong’s biggest ICT spender, the Hong Kong Jockey Club, on why Hong Kong’s a suitable location for data centres, and of course, cloud computing.
The interview is from May, at [...]
Google announced that it will be building three new data centres in the Asia Pacific region. To be located in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan, the three facilities will allow Google to locate its content and services closer to Asian users.
According to the words of a Google spokesperson in Hong Kong, the reasons for its [...]
Future data centres will be built with two particular factors in mind that will ultimately determined their location and the kinds of applications they support, says executives at NTT Com Asia.
According to the Brandon Lee, chief strategy officer at NTT Com Asia, there will be two types of data centres in the future – one [...]
A very interesting look at Dell’s modular data centre. Unlike previous containerised data centre designs, which feature single standalone shipping containers, Dell’s design features multiple support modules that are added to the actual container containing the IT equipment.
Watch the video with Dell Data Center Solutions’ Ty Schmitt and Mark Bailey to find out more.
One interesting [...]
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 [...]