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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Smart meters are one of the hottest topics in the news these days. By adding intelligence to the domestic energy counters, smart metres, and their corresponding sibling, smart grids, now promise to yield a unique set of digital data for both the consumer and the energy industry. The benefits are pretty obvious. By seeing details [...]

Green Telecom Editor Tony Chan spoke recently to the Joe Weinman, AT&T leader for strategy solutions sales and a well established expert on cloud computing, on what makes the company’s long history, global network and enterprise support capabilities bring to this space.

Green Telecom’s Tony Chan speaks to Rackspace Hosting chairman, Graham Weston, on the company’s approach to green practices, what’s makes a green data centre and what’s the real significance of virtualisation. Green Telecom: So what is Rackspace Hosting’s approach to ‘green’ practices? Graham Weston: Two three years ago, we actually switched to AMD processors because [...]

As one of the participants in the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star for Data Centre study, AT&T is no stranger to the greening of IT. But when it comes to defining what is green, Rick Felts, AT&T’s senior vice president, Information Technology Operations, prefers to choose his words carefully. In this exclusive interview with [...]

Green Telecom talks to Sun Microsystems Asia Pacific CTO Angus MacDonald on the company’s motivations behind its annual carbon reporting survey of Australian businesses, the company’s internal environmental strategy, and the Australian government’s proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme.

As the world’s biggest manufacturing of computer microprocessors, you can say that Intel is at the heart of the information revolution. Throughout the years, the company has managed to reduce the energy consumption of its chips in the market place, but can its own efforts to reduce emissions compete with the global demand of its [...]

In this exclusive interview with Ericsson’s Head of Corporate Social Responsibility, Elaine Weidman, Green Telecom’s editor Tony Chan finds out about the company’s approach to, not only managing its own environmental impact, but support the success of its customers towards a new carbon lean economy. Green Telecom: So tell us about Ericsson’s CSR initiatives? Elaine [...]