Data centre and telecoms facility operator Telehouse has pledged to use 100% renewable energy to power its London Docklands site.
The site, which houses the IT infrastructure of almost 500 major international organisations, will now purchase 100% of its energy from UK renewable energy provider, SmartestEnergy.
According to Telehouse, SmartestEnergy buys energy from independent generators from around [...]
France Telecom’s enterprise and international arm, Orange Business Services, has unveiled four strategic objectives for the next three to four years, three of which are based on technologies and services that have a green element.
As part of its “conquests 2015″ plan, Orange Business has identified cloud computing, M2M, as well as video conferencing, as “priority [...]
Yet another research report citing the vast potential of the cloud computing market. This time, it is Global Industry Analysts, based in San Jose, projecting a global market worth US$127 billion by 2017.
The primary driver for the clouds, according to GIA, is factors such as growing prominence of enterprise mobility, need for business continuity, and [...]
A year after its launch, the GSMA’s Mobile Energy Efficiency Benchmarking methodology has been adopted by 35 mobile operators, who run more than 200 networks across 145 countries, the GSMA said.
The methodology has also just been included in the ITU’s standard ITU-T L.1410 ‘Methodology for Environmental Impact Assessment of ICT Goods, Networks and Services.’
The GSMA [...]
NTT America, in collaboration with several global affiliates, says it will be able to save some 7.6 million kWh of power – equalled to more than US$630,000 in energy costs and over 10 million lbs of CO2 – per year with improvements on how it cools its two largest North American data centres.
Core to the [...]
One of the biggest wholesale data centre facilities operators, Digital Realty Trust, has released a couple of videos – via its PR agency – on energy efficiency in the data centres.
The first is on the company’s view on PUE.
While there are no surprises in terms of the company’s definition of PUE, Adil Attlassy, vice president [...]
First published in Communications Day
A pilot program conducted at Microsoft’s Seattle campus has shown that intelligent building solutions using cloud-based software can be achieved with 10% of a building’s annual energy expenditure, offering a ROI period of 18 months.
The program was implemented in 13 of Microsoft’s 118 buildings on its campus, and carried out by [...]
Verne Global, the UK-based firm building a wholesale data centre facility in Iceland, says it is now officially open for business.
Services are available from the company’s 18-hectacre campus in Kelfavik, Iceland, a location with key operating advantages that providers well over 50% cost savings over traditional data centres in Europe or New York, the company [...]
Following Google’s decision to build three new data centres in Asia, I dug up this oldish interview with Sunny Lee, Executive Director for IT at Hong Kong’s biggest ICT spender, the Hong Kong Jockey Club, on why Hong Kong’s a suitable location for data centres, and of course, cloud computing.
The interview is from May, at [...]
The ITU’s Study Group 5 of its Telecommunications Standardisation Sector has found agreement on a globally-recognised set of methodologies to assess the environmental impact of ICT.
“Estimates of how much ICTs can reduce global emissions – and estimates of the emissions generated by the ICT sector itself – still vary widely, due to the application of [...]
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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 [...]