Rubenius to Build $4 Billion Electricity `Warehouse’ in Baja California – Bloomberg http://t.co/dsA9IH9 via @BloombergNow
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 [...]
GE and Ingersoll Rand Launch Intelligent Building Automation Platform For Data Centers : Press Releases : http://t.co/CkUCLNC via @AddThis
Environmental cost of IT production lies with manufacturers WORDS http://t.co/BqMOC1e via @computing_news
According to a Pike Research report, the implementation of cloud computing and cloud services now have the potential to reduce worldwide data centre energy expenditures by 38% by the year 2020, compared to a business as usual scenario. “The growth of cloud computing will have a very significant positive effect on data center energy consumption,” [...]
AT&T And Elster Announce Agreement To Deliver Wireless Smart Grid Solutions To Utilities http://t.co/EZmxnej
By Pareekh Jain Energy is one of the largest opex head for Telecom Operators. Telecom Operators are looking for energy opex savings strategies both for increasing profitability and going Green. Equipment Vendors are looking at opex saving strategies from piece meal perspective limited by breadth of their solutions portfolio. Below is a representative list of [...]
By CommsDay International The GSMA and the International Finance Corporation – the commercial arm of the World Bank, has launched a new program designed to turn mobile base stations sites into power generators for the communities they serve. The Community Power for Mobile program will aim to turn excess power generated by mobile network base [...]
Facebook this week launched a green page, which has “lots of information about what the company is doing in the environment/energy space.” The site is features lots of information on being ‘green’, as well as outlines Facebook’s green vision, as follows: Facebook’s mission is to give people the power to share and make the world [...]
Nokia Siemens Networks says its Flexi-NS (Network Server) is the world’s lowest power consuming server for mobile operators, capable of supporting 100,000 subscribers on 59 watts of power. The company unveiled the product at 4G World this week, and expects to ship it commercially by end-2010.
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 [...]