GreenQloud is a cloud computing services
company with headquarters in Iceland, offering green cloud computing services
powered by 100% renewable energy resources. GreenQloud's services include
carbon neutral cloud server hosting, online storage, backup and cloud based
computing and High performance computing services to companies, National
Research and Education Networks (NRENS) and consumers. GreenQloud is also
called an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) company.
Founded in 2010, the company
exclusively sells cloud computing services, such as web hosting and data
storage, known commonly as infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), powered by data
centers using 100% renewable energy in Iceland. Most hosting companies buy
carbon offset credits as a green marketing measure, and host data at multiple
data centers on different continents as the solution for international sites.
Greenqloud and other Icelandic web hosting companies differ from competitors in
North America and Europe in that its data centers are powered exclusively by
hydropower and geothermal energy; this is possible because of Iceland's energy
infrastructure.
Iceland's geographical location offers two additional
ecological advantages:
1. year-round cold climate in the
Arctic Circle offers natural cooling,
2. its mid-Atlantic location
eliminates the need for data mirrors on both continents, eliminating the use of
multiple data centers and the associated energy consumption.
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