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 [...]
Telecoms power specialist, Lineage Power, has entered a merger agreement to purchase all the outstanding shares of PECO II.
“Together, the combined product portfolios and nationwide support infrastructure creates one of the largest and most capable professional services organizations for telecom power in North America,” Lineage Power, a Gores Group company, said. “PECO II’s high standards [...]
Equinix revealed the energy efficient measures at its new London facility, dubbed the LD5 IBX data centre. Located on the outskirts of London next to its existing LD4 facility, the new data centre will adapt a series of features to maximise its energy efficiency and reduce overall power consumption.
These include “fresh air cooling for all [...]
One thing that comes with new technology is that it typically gives you more bang for the buck, hence more performance for the same cost – energy as well as money.
With Cisco’s CRS-3 (Carrier Routing System), you now get three times the performance – as in throughput, so up to 322 Tbps of capacity in [...]
Hitachi has reportedly won a contract to supply services to the Japanese government’s move to deploy cloud computing for its internal departments and agencies. As we reported last year, the Japanese government has announced a major strategy, dubbed the “Kasumigaseki cloud,” to migrate its internal ICT operations to a cloud computing platform.
Subsequently, governments in the [...]
Equinix says its SV2 International Business Exchange data center has earned the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Certification from the US Green Building Council (USGBC).
LEED is an internationally recognized green building certification system. It provides third-party verification that a building or community was designed and built using strategies aimed at improving performance across [...]
A new release by Gartner predicts that 20% of companies around the world will have no IT assets by 2012, preferring instead to shift ownership and operation of their information infrastructure to third-party cloud and service providers.
“Several interrelated trends are driving the movement toward decreased IT hardware assets, such as virtualization, cloud-enabled services, and employees [...]
IT heavyweights Microsoft and HP is getting together in a US$250 cloud computing pact that will work on better integration of their respective technology platforms. The joint investment will see the companies develop and sell systems for the cloud computing space.
Both companies have been active in the cloud space, but each was approaching the market [...]
Internet Initiative Japan, a major backbone and ISP operator, says it will conduct “a proof-of-concept” test for building an environmentally friendly data centre for cloud computing this year, with the aim of constructing such a facility by April 2010.
The current test is conducted in conjunction with Toshiba, NLM ECAL Co – part of the Nippon [...]
HP already had a sensor system for determining data centre cooling performance, but starting January 2010, the company will also provide you with a host of software tools that give you a graphical view of your data centre’s environment. The HP Data Center Environmental Edge product now leverages wireless sensor technology to provide graphical visualisation [...]
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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 [...]