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Greenqloud is a cloud computing software company with headquarters in Iceland and office in Seattle, offering cloud infrastructure software solutions for private, hybrid and public cloud deployments for enterprise businesses. ==Founding and history== Founded in 2010, the company initially sold public 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. Iceland began developing its data hosting industry in the late 2000s, addressing the rapid growth of carbon emissions from data centers worldwide.〔McKinsey & Company, Inc., 2010 ("Data Centers: How to cut carbon emissions and cost ), Section 1:4"〕 The same year, the first zero-emission wholesale data center was installed in the former NATO base in Keflavik by a Washington D.C. based startup, followed by at least 2 other data centers in and around Reykjavik. The development of wholesale data centers in Iceland made development of the consumer service vendors possible. The late development of Iceland's relatively small data hosting industry also makes it possible for the country to be innovative and discerning in its information technology policies. In 2010, the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative was passed. Iceland has gained a reputation of not only being an ecological data hosting hub, but also a harbour from government and cultural censorship in developed as well as developing nations. 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「GreenQloud」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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