GreenButton
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| Subsidiary | |
| Industry | Cloud computing |
| Fate | Acquired by Microsoft |
| Founded | Wellington, New Zealand (2006) |
| Founder | Scott Houston |
| Defunct | May 2, 2014 |
| Headquarters | Wellington, New Zealand, New Zealand |
| Revenue | $1.5 million (2011) |
| Parent | Microsoft |
| Website | www |
GreenButton was a New Zealand-based 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 Azure service.
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 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.
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