The proliferation of video and other forms of rich media is changing the nature of networks today, a trend that calls for a new generation of equipment and technologies at the network level, says Cisco.
The company announced at its C-Scape annual analysts briefing event yesterday, what it calls its medianet strategy, which will provide the […]

Putting servers inside shipping containers is a trend that is gaining momentum in the industry with many of the leading infrastructure operators and providers, including Google, IBM, HP and Sun now leveraging the concept to drive efficiency and flexibility of data centres.
Now, Microsoft, which has already deployed a date centre in Chicago using the idea, […]

British Telecom is taking its internal sustainability practices and applying the principles to its supply chain here in Asia.
Peter Beaudoin, who is responsible for BT’s sustainability efforts in Asia, says the operator is now putting more emphasis on corporate social responsibility practices of its suppliers when tendering contracts, to the point of actually visiting the […]

Grahame Lynch, CommsDay
Forget the economic crisis. Regional data centres are on a roll, according to an industry panel in Singapore yesterday, driven by the demands of the Asia Pacific and Australasian internet user base for better performance than can be delivered over trans-Pacific and trans-Europe connections.
According to Neil Tagare—the bandwidth sector stalwart who conceived Flag […]

The emerging capabilities of cloud computing environments holds the potential to drive efficiency of IT infrastructure as much as 100 fold, according to estimates of one application services provider.
READ the full interview with Graham Weston here
According to the chairman of Rackspace Hosting, Graham Weston, cloud computing, by driving up the utilization of data centre infrastructure, […]

Two prevailing themes at last week’s CommsDay Melbourne Congress’ Green Telecom day were the issue of the impact of the Garnaut report on the telecommunications industry and the role of telecoms in helping other industries reduce their carbon footprint.
While the two themes seem diametrically opposed, as the first addresses the potential impact of a carbon […]

By Petroc Wilton, CommsDay
Major telecoms industry players are forging new strategies to deal with climate change initiatives, but in the process must weigh an array of considerations from the investments required for innovation to the actual process of embedding new priorities across entire companies.
Telstra’s executive director for innovation projects for the digital future, Chloe Munro, […]

More than half of the Asian companies listed under the telecommunications services category failed to respond or chose not to respond to the 2008 Carbon Disclosure Project, which asks leading global corporations to disclose their emission levels and strategies.
More than 3,000 companies across different industries were sent questionnaires as part of this year’s CDP – […]

The CommsDay Melbourne Congress, co-organised by CommsDay and Green Telecom, and featuring a full day of speakers on sustainable telecoms practices, climate change opportunities and green infrastructure solutions, will be held on 30 Sept - 01 October at the Langham Hotel, Southbank. Sponsored by industry leaders, including Huawei Technologies, Alcatel-Lucent, Hatteras Networks, Juniper Networks, BearingPoint, […]

The Australian government’s proposed carbon ‘cap and trade’ system has the potential to radically change the telecoms industry by driving up demand, according to Brett O’Riley, CEO of Perth-based Ochre Services.
As a company that operates in a region where the dominant economic drivers are carbon-intensive heavy industries such as oil and gas and natural resources, […]