Carbon neutral cloud computing

Greenqloud is the world's first truly green public compute cloud.

This is the kind of Icelandic cloud we welcome. Greenqloud promises to be the world's first truly green compute cloud, powered by geothermal and hydro (Photo: Lydurs / Creative Commons)

This is the kind of Icelandic cloud we welcome. Greenqloud promises to be the world's first truly green compute cloud, powered by geothermal and hydro (Photo: Lydurs / Creative Commons)

 

Greenqloud offers a fully automated virtual server hosting environment and online storage (IaaS) that companies or individuals can rent by the hour and completely eliminate their IT's carbon footprint. Being an elastic cloud means customers only pay for what they use so they can grow their online presence without any initial investment in IT infrastructure.

Truly green

Greenqloud is Truly Green because it exclusively uses geothermal and hydro energy and only operates in ultra high efficient data-centers. Being in Iceland makes that possible because of its abundance of truly green energy and free cooling. Iceland is uniquely positioned between two continents and with redundant high speed fiber connections to Europe and N-America customers do not need to have servers and data at many locations when targeting those markets.

Compatible

The cloud is compatible with the current cloud computing leader's technology making it easy to switch or to scale out to 100% truly green hosting using Greenqloud. Greenqlouds mission is to make cloud computing a cost reducing and carbon neutral service.

Further reading

Greenqloud's website.

Article produced by Eilif Ursin Reed 07.05.2010