Given all the sensitivity surrounding monopolies and anti-competitive behaviour, not many companies would want to be dubbed ‘dominant’ these days. But if an independent third party analyst calls you that, then I guess it is ok.
That’s the case with Emerson Network Power, who has been recognised by Forrester as the ‘dominant’ supplier in data centre [...]
NTT Communications’ new Singapore data centre is probably not the most energy efficient or green facility in its global data centre portfolio. For starters, the new site is obviously targeted at high performance computing requirements, situated next to the city’s stock exchange, and marketed towards financial firms looking for the lowest latency, and highest reliability [...]
Intel uses 2.5 billion kWh of green power per year, giving the company the top spot in the US Environmental Protection Agency’s latest Green Power Partnership ranking for the Fortune 5000. The EPA Partnership is a voluntary program that encourages corporate purchase of renewable energy in the US.
According to the EPA figures, Intel now buys [...]
NTT Communications’ US unit, NTT America, has taken many steps to green its infrastructure and systems, and that has paid off with a 2012 Green Enterprise IT Award from the Uptime Institute.
The award, in recognition of NTT Com’s green data centre initiaitves, is shared with Vigilent, who provided the intelligent energy management systems to reduce [...]
Polycom has won a deal to supply its RealPresence Platform to 11 Korean office locations for Woori Investment and Securities.
“After installing Polycom video solutions, our meeting culture has changed for the better. Now, employees of the 11 offices can meet face-to-face on a moment’s notice, regardless of where they are, which has really contributed to [...]
Four consortiums have been selected for the Green Data Centre Innovation Challenge Call-for-Collaboration (CFC) by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA).
The four consortiums are led by: Equinix Singapore Pte Ltd (partnering with Synapsense LLC, and Custom Mechanical Systems LLC); Toshiba Asia Pacific Pte Ltd (partnering with Nanyang Technological University); ClearManage Pte Ltd (partnering with [...]
Google officially launched its online storage service this week. Dubbed the Google Drive, the service will offer users 5GB of online storage for free, with options to upgrade that to 25GB for US2.49 per month, US$4.99 a month for 100GB, and $49.99 a month for a whopping 1TB of storage.
Analyst firm Ovum however askes: “What [...]
Managed services will be a key component to meeting the networking requirements of the Networked Society, says Ericsson at the Managed Services Growth Market conference in Dubai.
“The development towards a Networked Society is increasing complexity of networks and business for operators. It also creates a market more and more driven by consumer needs as consumers [...]
Research carried out by China’s Tsinghua University Media Survey Lab on behalf of Alcatel-Lucent has found that professionals working in the Chinese information and communications technology (ICT) industry are open to ‘going green’ but struggle with how to use technology to achieve carbon reduction targets.
The study, commissioned by Alcatel-Lucent, revealed that most Chinese companies are [...]
ICT needs to be part of the solution to climate change – that is the message from the Broadband Commission for Digital Development, an organisation founded by the ITU and UNESCO. More importantly, it is a message that has been put forth by the global ICT industry for the last three to four years.
The message [...]
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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 [...]