Google officially launched its online storage service this week. Dubbed the Google Drive, the service will offer users 5GB of online storage for free, with options to upgrade that to 25GB for US2.49 per month, US$4.99 a month for 100GB, and $49.99 a month for a whopping 1TB of storage.
Analyst firm Ovum however askes: “What [...]
As someone who writes about green telecommunications practices, the focus for me has always been on driving energy efficiency at increasingly power-hungry data centres, especially those powering big cloud services.
Greenpeace however has highlighted another key aspect of the insatiable appetite for power from data centre – the fact that most of them are powered by [...]
Here is a very cool timelapse video of how Metronode put up its data centre in Melbourne – in just 7 months. It also shows how effective the BladeRoom data halls in facilitating the construction process.
According to Malcolm Roe, GM at Metronode, the facility used 21 data centre module, 14 office modules, and 7 roof [...]
Metronode, the data centre operation of Australia’s Leighton group, unveiled ambitious plans to achieve PUE levels for its new Sydney and Melbourne sites that match the world’s most efficient facilities.
According to Metronode GM Malcolm Roe, the two sites will deploy a containerised data centre design from UK’s BladeRoom, as well as free air cooling that [...]
Microsoft won what is reportedly its biggest cloud computing deployment yet, sealing a contract to supply its software and services to some 7.5 million students and professors across technical colleges at All India Council For Technical Education.
As part of the deal, Microsoft will supply its Live.edu suite of services, which includes Outlook Live, Office Live, [...]
Here is a really cool infographic from Cisco on its raison d’etre and how it sees the world. Interesting tidbits:
IP traffic will quadruple by 2014 due to video
50 billion devices on the Internet by 2020
30% of all data to pass through the cloud by 2020
There are some pretty daunting data points, like the fact that [...]
Google says it plans to deploy a thermal storage cooling system for its new 15-hectare data centre site in Changhua County, Taiwan, Data Centre Knowledge reported.
Google has long since been a leader in energy efficiency for its data centres, but this is the first time the company has decided on thermal storage.
The system takes advantage [...]
Extreme Networks has launched a new flagship switch, the BlackDiamond X8, which now pushes the industry parameters for performance, density and power efficiency.
According to data from independent test lab, the Lippis Report, the BlackDiamond X8 now delivers the lowest latency (2.3 µs), highest port density (768 10GE ports in a third of a rack) and [...]
Verne Global, the company that is building a wholesale data centre in Iceland has announced its first two customers – at least ones that are willing to go public. The company announced that CCP Games and GreenQloud have now decided to host at least some of their infrastructure in its facility in Keflavik, Iceland.
CCP Games [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]