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Silver Spring Networks launchs cloud-based insight-as-a-service
Silver Spring Networks, a provide of smart grid infrastructure solutions, has launched a suite of cloud-based services for utility operators. The SilverLink Cloud services provide insight-as-a-service...
View ArticleIBM and Vodafone team up for smart homes
Vodafone and IBM is together in the smart home business, demonstrating in Berlin last week a solution that allows for remote management of household appliances. The smart home showcase features IBM’s...
View ArticleHuawei intros virtual desktop infrastructure in-a-box
One way to reduce energy consumption in the enterprise is to minimise the use of desktop PCs. And one way to do that is to deploy virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) that work on the cloud rather than...
View ArticleFlexenclosure expands to Central Asia
Swedish power systems specialist for telecom infrastructure Flexenclosure has opened its four office this year, this time in Islamabad, Pakistan. According to the company, it has seen good traction in...
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99% of the world not connected to the Internet – Cisco
Cisco has launched a new marketing campaign and corporate slogan that says 99% of the world is still not online. The new campaign is based on the concept of the Internet of Everything, where not just...
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Wireless networks cast huge shadow on cloud energy usage
Originally published on Communications Day The industry’s focus on data centres as the main producers of carbon dioxide emissions in the ICT sector misses the point, according to a new white paper by...
View ArticleFacebook offers real-time PUE readings for two DCs
Ever since data centre energy efficiency made headlines for the amount of power they consumed, and the amount of carbon emissions they generated, major content providers like Google, Facebook, Apple,...
View ArticleClimate Action moves into Verne Global’s carbon neutral facility
Verne Global announced that Climate Action is now hosting its email systems at Verne Global’s renewable-powered data center in Iceland. Climate Action is a sustainable development organisation working...
View ArticleCisco completes acquisition of JouleX
Cisco announced it has brought privately-held JouleX, a provider of enterprise IT energy management solutions for network-attached and data centre assets. According to Cisco, JouleX complements its...
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Orange’s new Normandy data centre saves enough energy to power small town...
France Telecom’s Orange Business Services has launched a new data centre in Normandy that it says saves enough energy to power a small town with 30,000 people. The new 16,000 sq metre site in...
View ArticleApple to fund 6 Irish RE projects, power Galway data center
Apple plans to directly fund six Irish renewable energy projects and use the electricity they generate to power its proposed data center in Galway. Source: GreentechLead | Apple to fund 6 Irish RE...
View Article$20 Billion: What Microsoft Wants To Earn From Cloud Business In Fiscal Year...
Microsoft aims to achieve an annual revenue amount of $20 billion from its cloud-computing business in fiscal year 2018. This means it should be able to triple its cloud revenue over a three-year...
View ArticleVMware, Red Hat and Microsoft currently better value than OpenStack...
451 Research launched its latest Cloud Price Index, the most rigorous and comprehensive analysis of the cost of cloud computing. For the first time in the industry, buyers have complete transparency...
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Siemens to supply data center of Amazon Web Services with clean energy
Siemens will supply 65 wind turbines and 67 transformers for the Amazon Wind Farm (Fowler Ridge). The customer for this onshore project in Indiana is Pattern Energy. With a capacity of 150 megawatts,...
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Time for energy neutrality for the net – Greenpeace’s Annie Leonard
Greenpeace USA executive director Annie Leonard Greenpeace USA executive director Annie Leonard argues that a healthy internet is not just neutral, but should also be powered by a neutral, as in...
View ArticleOptiBit develops new energy efficient fibre-based chip technology
OptiBit, a start up made up of three graduate students from MIT, University of Colorado, Boulder and the University of California, Berkeley, has developed a new chip technology that promises faster...
View ArticleSmart microgrids to help data centers, farm communities use locally produced...
Installing smart microgrids can help big power consumers use energy generated locally, particularly those generated by renewable sources. According to South Dakota State University assistant professors...
View ArticleCisco expands Intercloud capabilities with Piston Cloud Computing buy – Forbes
Cisco has announced plans to acquire Piston Cloud Computing, reported Forbes. Piston is a four year old startup offering OpenStack cloud distribution and is expected to improve Cisco’s product,...
View ArticleRevenue from cloud computing to reach $1 bln within 2-3 years – Nvidia
Cloud computing will require a lot of chips, and if you are Nvidia, the hope is that new applications like Big Data analytics will also require lots of graphics chips, in order to render all that data...
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Greenpeace “clicking green” report revisit
Greenpeace’s view of the carbon profile of the Internet’s hosting infrastructure Above is a great visualisation of the carbon profile of the Internet’s hosting infrastructure from Greenpeace’s Clicking...
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