Future data centres will be built with two particular factors in mind that will ultimately determined their location and the kinds of applications they support, says executives at NTT Com Asia. According to the Brandon Lee, chief strategy officer at NTT Com Asia, there will be two types of data centres in the future – [...]
Data centres are notorious energy hogs that put them beyond the reach of most renewable energy sources. Today, the only way that a data centre can be powered by renewable energy is when it is built next to a hydro electric dam, or in a market where the utility power is from a renewable source [...]
NTT America has implemented one of the world’s first co-generation data centres using fuel cell technology. The project will put in 500kW of power generation from fuel cells from Bloom Energy, which equates to about 10% of the existing power consumption load for the facility. Green Telecom Live actually spoke to Kazuhiro Gomi, president and [...]
Some folks at Microsoft Research and the Computer Science Department at the University of Virginia have tabled an idea that is both radical and utilitarian at the same time. The idea is centered around so-called, Data Furnaces, basically, servers, or clusters of servers, that will act as heaters inside homes or buildings. The researchers note [...]
A new study from the Carbon Disclosure Project has concluded that cloud computing can offer significant energy savings for large US companies, resulting in emissions savings by 2020 equivalent to 200 million barrels of oil, or enough power for 5.7 million cars for a year. Those figures, however, might not be enough to offset the [...]
Cisco has opened a new data centre in Allen, Texas that features some innovative ideas on energy efficiency and reliability on top of the conventional green IT methodologies. The tier 3 facility offers 38,000 sq. ft. of hosting area and is powered by redundant 10 MW feeds providing 5.25 MW of capacity for IT. In [...]
Original article via CommsDay International Energy efficiency and network optimising might be one of the hottest topics for improving operational costs of telecoms operators, but the two factors might also be a critical factor for growth. Basically, an upgrade to the latest generation of equipment not only saves power and space, but it is sometimes [...]
Power systems specialist, APC by Schneider, has unveiled a new strategy that will focus on helping data centre operators drive energy efficiency through the implementation of its traditional power and power management solutions, but in an architecture that features enhanced integration and automation of the passive infrastructure within facilities. The new solution, dubbed InfraStruxure, was [...]
Reducing PUE or Power Utilisation Efficiency, figures is a major focus for some of the world’s biggest data centre operators. Basically, the lower the number, the more power coming into a data centre gets to the computing, rather than wasted on the passive infrastructure such as UPSs, cooling and so on. It’s not always easy, [...]
GE and Ingersoll Rand has launched an intelligent building automation platform for data centres. To start off with, GE and Ingersoll Rand’s HVAC business, Trane, are working together on a solution for GE’s Ohio-based data centre featuring some 29,000 square feet of raised floor. The area equals six full sized basketball fields and includes more [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]