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 [...]
The same stuff that makes the bubbles in coca cola is now being deployed to cool high density data centre environments.
As Green Telecom reported earlier, Trox AITCS, a company founded by Trox TECHNIK, a world leader in industrial and commercial cooling systems, is bringing to Asia its high capacity cooling solution using liquid CO2. The [...]
Taiwanese incumbent operator Chunghwa Telecom has signed the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE) into its green data centre located in the city of Panchiao, southwest of Taipei. As part of the deal, Chunghwa will help the exchange construct a new online transaction servicing centre to stocks and futures transactions.
The TSE facility is expected to be completed [...]
A new report released by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) has identified a direct correlation between use of technology and the energy required for economy productivity.
The ACEEE study, commissioned by the Technology CEO Council (TCC), found that it takes less than half the energy to produce a dollar of economic output today [...]
As part of its 10 key predictions for IT organizations and users in 2008 and beyond, Gartner says that the environmental impact of IT systems will become an increasingly important purchasing criterion for large corporations.
Gartner predicts that by 2009, “more than one third of IT organizations will have one or more environmental criteria in their [...]
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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 [...]