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GreenButton
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryCloud computing
Founded2006 in Wellington, New Zealand
FounderScott Houston
Defunct2 May 2014 (2014-05-02)
FateAcquired by Microsoft
Headquarters
Wellington, New Zealand
Revenue$1.5 million (2011)[1]
ParentMicrosoft
Websitewww.greenbutton.com

GreenButton was a software company based in Wellington, New Zealand. It was established in 2006 and it helped independent software vendors (ISVs) and enterprises transition to cloud computing. GreenButton operated additional offices in Palo Alto, California, and Seattle. On 2 May 2014, the company was acquired by Microsoft. Following the acquisition, GreenButton's technologies were incorporated into Microsoft's Azure cloud service.

History

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GreenButton was founded as InterGrid in 2006 in Wellington, New Zealand, to provide small-scale customers access to job processors.[2] The company helped software vendors use cloud computing, offering a service called GreenButton in July 2010.[3][4]

In 2011, the company was renamed GreenButton, and joined the Microsoft Partner Network.[5] In 2011, GreenButton was declared as Microsoft Corp's Windows Azure ISV Partner of the Year.[6] In May 2011, GreenButton allied with Microsoft.[7][8] It included an investment reported at more than US$1 million, and adding Mark Canepa to its board of directors.[9]

In December 2011, GreenButton opened two offices in the United States, the US headquarters in Palo Alto, California, and a sales office in Seattle.[7]

GreenButton partnered with the Pixar Animation Studios and Microsoft's cloud computing platform Windows Azure, on a rendering service for RenderMan image-generating software announced in January 2012.[10] The service enhances the RenderMan Interface Specification.[11]

In June 2012, GreenButton announced a partnership with the GNS Science of New Zealand and American based Stillwater Group for cloud computing during seismic processing.[6] In the same year, the company entered into a partnership with Numerix, an American firm that develops software for risk analysis of financial derivatives.[12][13]

On 2 May 2014, GreenButton announced its acquisition by Microsoft with its technology integrated into Microsoft Azure.[14] After its acquisition GreenButton operates under Microsoft Azure product line as Azure Batch.[15]

References

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  1. ^ Tom Pullar-Strecker (26 June 2012). "Cloud computing 'lifts small firms' firepower'". Stuff. Archived from the original on 23 February 2013.
  2. ^ Lee, Michael. "Firm creates one cloud to compute them all". ZDNet. Archived from the original on 15 March 2016.
  3. ^ "InterGrid GreenButton: GreenButton Super Computing Power in the Cloud". Microsoft.com. 20 March 2011. Archived from the original on 20 June 2012. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
  4. ^ "Innovative Kiwi Companies Will Bring Home Gold At Global Partner Awards". Microsoft.com. 23 June 2011. Archived from the original on 28 January 2013.
  5. ^ "Software Developer Delivers On-Demand Computing, Doubles Revenue in 18 Months". Microsoft.com. 10 July 2011. Archived from the original on 20 September 2012. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
  6. ^ a b "GreenButton Announces Strategic Partnerships with GNS Science and Stillwater Group". Yahoo! News. PRWeb. 20 June 2012. Archived from the original on 10 February 2013.
  7. ^ a b Greg Lamm (15 December 2011). "GreenButton opening Seattle office after Azure alliance deal". Puget Sound Business Journal. Archived from the original on 18 January 2013.
  8. ^ Arik Hesseldahl (11 April 2011). "Seven Questions for Doug Hauger, Head of Microsoft's Azure Cloud Platform". Allthingsd.com. Archived from the original on 16 January 2013.
  9. ^ Claire Rogers (30 May 2011). "Microsoft decides to push GreenButton". Stuff. Archived from the original on 6 December 2011.
  10. ^ "Pixar Launches RenderMan On Demand". Renderman.pixar.com. 19 January 2012. Archived from the original on 23 January 2012. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
  11. ^ Kyle Brown (30 January 2012). "Pixar Partners With Microsoft and GreenButton to Deliver A New Rendering Service in the Cloud". CloudInvestor.com. Archived from the original on 19 January 2013.
  12. ^ "Numerix and GreenButton Partner to Accelerate Financial Services Firms' Cloud Enablement of Derivatives Valuation and Risk Calculations". Reuters. 13 June 2012. Archived from the original on 1 February 2013.
  13. ^ "Yahoo Search - Web Search". in.search.yahoo.com.
  14. ^ Ben Kepes (1 May 2014). "Microsoft Acquires GreenButton To Deliver Big Compute". Forbes. Archived from the original on 15 February 2015.
  15. ^ Foley, Mary Jo (28 October 2014). "Microsoft makes available public preview of new Azure Batch service". ZDNet. Archived from the original on 22 December 2014.
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