Nortel Networks has embarked on a major internal project to consolidate and simplify its internal IT infrastructure by as much as 90% over the next two years.
Eric Lauzon, Nortel’s CIO, Asia, revealed to Green Telecom, CommsDay that the company is in the process of overhauling its IT infrastructure in a global project that will dramatically [...]
Deutsche Telekom’s international arm, T-Systems, announced over the weekend that it will build a new 30,000 square feet ‘green’ data centre as part of an initiative to boost its operations in Singapore.
The company plans to invest an estimated “two-digit million” Singapore dollars in its new infrastructure over the next five years. The new data centre [...]
In a new report release this week, research firm Ovum highlighted three factors that can benefit the telecommunications sector as a result of the impacts of climate change. The report, entitled Surfing the green wave in telecom, takes a close look at the potential impacts and opportunities from the challenges presented by climate change on [...]
Singapore Telecom announced that it will build a new 150,000 sq ft data centre facility at the city’s Kim Chuan industrial area. The new facility, dubbed Kim Chuan Telecommunications Centre 2 (KCTC-2) will be SingTel’s fifth data centre in its home market and pushes the operator’s total data centre volume to more than half a [...]
Sci-fi writer Neal Stephenson first wrote about data havens in his 1999 book, Cryptonomicon, which among other themes, featured a main protagonist who is building a large facility in South East Asia for storing the escalating amount of data in the world.
Then back in 2000, a 21-year-old MIT dropout named Ryan Lackey founded the world’s [...]
New water cooling system by IBM brings water cooling on top of the processor for its new Power 575 supercomputer
A new water-cooled supercomputer from IBM aims to address heat inside data centres at the source – the computer processors that run hot inside servers.
Nicknamed Hydro-Cluster, the new IBM Power 575 supercomputer uses a new, water-based cooling system that pipes cold water in tiny tubes “almost all the way to the computer chip.” The water [...]
By Pamela Perez, CommsDay
IT market research firm Springboard Research reported that the virtualization software and services market in Asia Pacific will grow at an estimated CAGR of 42% to reach US$1.35 billion by 2010 with CIO interest in the technology increasing steadily.
A survey of CIOs from large and mid-sized enterprises in Australia, China, India and [...]
By looking closely at the power consumption of its data centres and identifying measures to better manage energy use, Macquirie Telecom has achieved measurable results following the implementation of green initiatives in its facilities.
“We’ve been looking at how our operations are performed and how we can improve them from an energy efficiency perspective – our [...]
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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 [...]