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    1. TELE Greenland, Eastlink and Hibernia Atlantic Investigate Low Latency Route to Iceland

      Explore Home | SYS-CON MEDIA (May 14 2012)

      TELE Greenland, Eastlink and Hibernia Atlantic Investigate Low Latency Route to Iceland

      TELE Greenland, Eastlink and Hibernia Atlanticannounce a potential new low latency high bandwidth connection between New York, New York and Landeyajasandur, Iceland. The route would utilize the Greenland Connect cable, owned and operated by TELE Greenland; network facilities owned and operated in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia by Eastlink; and the facilities of Hibernia Atlantic from Halifax to New York. The route would provide the lowest latency possible and could remove up to 1100 kilometers from the existing route.

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      Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Hibernia Atlantic

    2. Cisco Helps Iceland’s Farice Play a Key Role in Green Cloud Computing

      Explore Home | SYS-CON MEDIA (May 12 2012)

      Cisco Helps Iceland’s Farice Play a Key Role in Green Cloud Computing

       One of the topics we covered this week at the Cisco Packet Optical Networking Conference was cloud computing. A benefit of cloud computing is that the physical infrastructure – the storage and compute resources – can be located almost anywhere as long as there is reliable network access. Several countries are leveraging their low cost green power to grow their economies with new data center facilities. A publicly announced example of this is Facebook which has built an enormous facility in northern Sweden. Iceland with its cooler temperatures and green geothermal power, plus ideal location between North America and Europe has seen a significant growth in its data center industry. However, being an island nation it faces a challenge to ensure that sufficient cost-effective network capacity is available to connect off-island users with its storage and compute resources. 

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      Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Cisco

    3. AP Telecom Appointed as Emerald Networks' Pre-Sales Manager for International Network Development

      Explore Home | SYS-CON MEDIA (Nov 1 2011)

      AP Telecom, a facilities-based telecom consulting and service company specializing in emerging markets, today announced that Emerald Networks has contracted AP Telecom to serve as overall Program Manager in the creation of a new submarine cable system connecting North America, Europe and Iceland (USA, Canada, Iceland, Ireland, and the United Kingdom). Emerald Networks has addressed the need for new international communications infrastructure with the creation of the lowest latency Trans-Atlantic undersea cable network that connects North America, Europe and Iceland and also connects these regions to the rest of the world. The Emerald Networks team has contracted AP Telecom to serve as overall Program Manager for the effort. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   United Kingdom

    4. FieldView Presents the Future of Data Center Infrastructure Management

      Explore Home | SYS-CON MEDIA (Oct 3 2011) Cloud Computing

      FieldView Presents the Future of Data Center Infrastructure Management FieldView Presents the Future of Data Center Infrastructure ManagementSYS-CON Media (press release)Data Center and Mission Critical professionals are invited to register for the 7x24 Exchange Empire State Chapter Meeting to learn more about energy efficiency and cloud deployment at data centers.and more » (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Europe   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

    5. Specialty Cloud and the Rise of the Green Data Center

      Explore Home | SYS-CON MEDIA (Jun 27 2011) Cloud Computing , Networking

      Specialty Cloud and the Rise of the Green Data Center Last week I had a brief meeting with Yoram Heller of hot cloud player Morphlabs and we talked about the next wave of cloud innovations. Of particular interest was the concept of specialized software suites that ride on top of the commoditized cloud platforms that have so far captured most of the popular interest in cloud computing. It is possible, if indeed likely, that most forms of dedicated hardware or appliances in the network will be replaced by powerful instances, workloads and or/ boutique platforms that transcend the physical and technical boundaries that have been in place since the rise of the enterprise network. Perhaps that is how network automation plays itself out, as software trumps specialized network hardware. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Cisco   Juniper Networks

    6. Fujitsu Offers Free Three-Month Ride on its Cloud

      Explore Home | SYS-CON MEDIA (May 24 2011) Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing

      Fujitsu Offers Free Three-Month Ride on its Cloud Fujitsu Offers Free Three-Month Ride on its CloudSYS-CON Media (press release)The US service will be out of what Fujitsu says is a green data center in Silicon Valley that it projects could save companies as much as 40% on their information and communications technology (ICT) costs while reducing their carbon footprint. ...and more » (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com   Fujitsu   Europe

    7. HP Selected by San Diego County for Information Technology Services Contract

      Explore Home | SYS-CON MEDIA (May 4 2011)

      HP Selected by San Diego County for Information Technology Services Contract HP Selected by San Diego County for Information Technology Services ContractSYS-CON Media (press release)Under the terms of the contract, HP will be the prime contractor, responsible for administering information technology and telecommunications services including data center hosting, service desk, desktop, network, applications and cross-functional ... (Read Full Article)

    8. Data Center Sustainability Takes Center Stage at The Green Grid's Annual ...

      Explore Home | SYS-CON MEDIA (Mar 2 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

      Data Center Sustainability Takes Center Stage at The Green Grid's Annual ... Data Center Sustainability Takes Center Stage at The Green Grid's Annual ...SYS-CON Media (press release)The Green Grid also announced new metrics to help data center managers quickly assess the water, energy reuse, and carbon sustainability aspects of their data centers. With these metrics, data center managers can determine if any energy efficiency ...and more » (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   The Green Grid   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory   Microsoft Corp

    9. Awareness to Action - The Energy Consumed by Data Centers is Responsible for ...

      Explore Home | SYS-CON MEDIA (Dec 31 2010) Carbon Footprint

      Awareness to Action - The Energy Consumed by Data Centers is Responsible for ... Aqueque (pronounced a cue cue); Founder and CEO Matthew Krumholz announced today that his company can create a green IT ecosystem for corporations. Whether you are a fortune 500 company looking for a green data center retrofit or a small company looking for a green energy strategy they have a solution. They have formed a green IT solutions firm that draws from a world class ecosystem of hardware and software partners, infrastructure partners, subject matter experts from the industry and academia, and world-class management advisory to meet this energy challenge head on. AQQ’s green IT solutions are aimed at zero power wastage and a reduction of carbon footprint; “existing IT infrastructure is large and inefficient leading to excessive consumption of energy.” Founder and CEO, Matt Krumholz says. “It is important to make the change because the energy being used to today to power data centers is not sustainable.” (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   CA

    10. Who said Green IT had to be taxing?

      Explore Home | SYS-CON MEDIA (Oct 28 2010) Carbon Tax , Emissions , Cloud Computing

      Who said Green IT had to be taxing? UK Government changes CRC scheme to simple carbon tax. Unveiling the UK Government’s Comprehensive Spending Review last week, Chancellor George Osborne announced a major change to the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC). The Chancellor stated that the money collected by the scheme over the next four years could be transferred to the Treasury (UK plc) coffers instead of being returned to participating companies in the form of rebates. Unsurprisingly, this rather swift change of the goal posts has led to cries of ‘stealth tax’ from critics. Since last week’s Spending Review announcement, a whole line of analysts and specialists have formed an orderly queue, waiting for their turn to denounce this change and to claim that the implications for UK’s data centre industry could be catastrophic as operators seek to build new facilities in other countries instead. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   CBI   CRC

    11. The Bell Tolls for Data Centers

      Explore Home | SYS-CON MEDIA (Oct 18 2010) Cloud Computing , Networking

      The Bell Tolls for Data Centers In the good old days (late 90s and most of the 2000s) data center operators loved selling individual cabinets to customers. You could keep your prices high for the cabinet, sell power by the “breakered amp,” and try to maximize cross connects through a data center meet me room. All designed to squeeze the most revenue and profit out of each individual cabinet, with the least amount of infrastructure burden. Forward to 2010. Data center consolidation has become an overwhelming theme, emphasized by the US CIO Vivek Kundra’s mandate to force the US government, as the world’s largest IT user, to eliminate most of more than 1600 federal government owned and operated data centers (into about a dozen), and further promote efficiency by adopting cloud computing. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   At&T

    12. Iron, Power, and Cloud Computing: Let's Get Real

      Explore Home | SYS-CON MEDIA (Sep 29 2010) Carbon Footprint , Fossil Fuel , Solar , Wind , Cloud Computing

      Iron, Power, and Cloud Computing: Let's Get Real I'm the least sure of opinions that people are most sure of. And I'm supposed to be writing about Cloud Computing, not geopolitical debate. Whether we like it or not, these two things are intertwined, because the fundamental underlying all things Cloud is energy: its use, its price, and the competition for it. Most people have very strong opinions about energy--how we produce it and use it--and in my opinion, those opinions often cloud the debate. If you hate coal or nuclear power, you really hate them. If you are contemptuous of wind and solar, you are really contemptuous of them. But let's pretend we are the hypothetical Martians of old, and gaze down on Planet Earth to examine its needs dispassionately. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Greenpeace   Sun Microsystems   MIT

    13. 'Everything' as a service future means transforming IT for efficiency and scale, says HP's Livermore

      Explore Home | SYS-CON MEDIA (Jun 16 2009) Cloud Computing

      'Everything' as a service future means transforming IT for efficiency and scale, says HP's Livermore Ann Livermore, Executive Vice President for HP's Technology Solutions Group (TSG), said the recession and technology advances have combined to offer a new era in computing, one where a hybrid of sourcing and delivery means moves all IT assets to the level of a service. Livermore identified three mega trends now buffeting the IT landscape: Information explosion, Everything as a Service, and Data Center Transformation. HP expects that after a 12-month period of operational optimization initiatives that CIOs will also seek more transformative IT functional delivery improvements, including such next-generation data center bulwarks as consolidation, automation, and virtualization. [Disclosure: HP is a sponsor of BriefingsDirect podcasts.] But CIOs and IT managers will also see more infrastructure, application development, applications, data, business intelligence, and IT management delivered as services, either from on-premises next-generation data centers, services abstracted from legacy systems, via outsourced IT operations and also from a growing ecology ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Cisco   Hewlett Packard   Brocade