GreenButton was a
New Zealandbased software firm.
The company specialized in moving
independent software vendors (ISVs) and enterprises to
cloud computing. Founded in 2006, GreenButton was based in
Wellington, New Zealand, with additional offices in
Palo Alto, California, and
Seattle.
GreenButton was
acquired by
Microsoft on 2 May 2014; its technologies were integrated into its
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service.
History
GreenButton was founded as InterGrid in 2006 in
Wellington, New Zealand, to provide small-scale customers access to job processors.
The company helped software vendors use
cloud computing, offering a service called GreenButton in July 2010.
In 2011, the company was renamed to GreenButton, and they had joined the
Microsoft Partner Network.
In 2011, GreenButton was declared as Microsoft Corp's
Windows Azure
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ISV Partner of the Year.
They won the 2011 New Zealand Partner of the Year Award from Microsoft New Zealand.
In May 2011, GreenButton entered into an alliance with Microsoft.
It included an investment reported at more than US$1 million, and adding
Mark Canepa to its board of directors.
GreenButton won
BizSpark Partner of the Year and Software Exporter of the Year awards from MS New Zealand in 2011. Dave Fellows of GreenButton won the Solutions Architect of the Year award that year.
In December 2011, GreenButton opened two offices in the United States. The office at
Palo Alto, California, functioned as the US headquarters. The second was as a sales office in
Seattle.
GreenButton was finalists for the New Zealand Hi-Tech awards.
The company had a total turnover of $1.5 million for the fiscal year 2011–12.
GreenButton partnered with the
Pixar Animation Studios and the Microsoft's cloud computing platform
Windows Azure
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, on a rendering service for
RenderMan image generating software announced in January 2012. The service enhances the
RenderMan Interface Specification.
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
Reflection seismology (or seismic reflection) is a method of exploration geophysics that uses the principles of seismology to estimate the properties of the Earth's subsurface from reflected seismic waves. The method requires a controlled seismi ...
.
[GreenButton Announces Strategic Partnerships with GNS Science and Stillwater Group - Yahoo! News]
/ref> The company promoted software which integrated seismic processing to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud service. Seismic processing is part of the oil and natural gas exploration process, and requires heavy processing of data.
In 2012 GreenButton entered into a partnership with Numerix
Numerix is a global financial technology company that provides capital markets software and solutions that enable clients to analyze and manage complex trade portfolios that consist of financial instruments, derivatives, and structured products. It ...
, an American company that develops software for risk analysis of financial derivatives.
It won an award at the 2012 Wellington Gold awards.Grow Wellington – News
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On 2 May 2014, GreenButton announced its acquisition by Microsoft with its technology integrated into Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure, often referred to as Azure ( , ), is a cloud computing platform operated by Microsoft for application management via around the world-distributed data centers. Microsoft Azure has multiple capabilities such as software as a ...
. GreenButton stopped accepting new customers on the same day.
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