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On Creating Another Silicon Valley, And Why Iceland Shouldn’t…

June 17, 2014

Business

#StartupIceland, GreenQLoud, Iceland, London, McDonalds, New Zealand, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Valley

I’ve just spent a week in Iceland meeting with startups and presenting to the Startup Iceland conference. The conference is the brainchild of Bala Kamallakharan, a one-time banker and now investor in the Icelandic technology scene. Kamallakharan saw the…

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GreenQloud Goes Hybrid – QStack Built On Top Of CloudStack

February 25, 2014

Business

cloud computing, CloudStack, dropbox, GreenQLoud, Iceland, Open source, OpenStack, Scality

I’m a big fan of Icelandic cloud vendor GreenQloud (more on them here) for a number of reasons – firstly they’ve managed to differentiate what they do without resorting to post-Snowden fear mongering. In GreenQloud’s case it’s all about…

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GreenQloud – Because PRISM isn’t the Only Way for Non US Clouds to Differentiate

August 23, 2013

Business

amazon web services, Application programming interface, AWS, cloud computing, GreenQLoud, IOS, Netherlands, Paul Miller

Since the news broke of PRISM and the other big Government spying programs, there has been an almost deafening number of non-US cloud vendors use the news as a justification for their product. The highly opportunistic marketing spin goes…

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GreenQloud Looks to Both Deepen and Broaden Service–Internationalization and QloudSync

March 19, 2013

Business

cloud computing, Cloud storage, dropbox, GreenQLoud, Iceland, MegaUpload, Patriot Act, QloudSync

One of the emergent tends I’m seeing with technology vendors is a move towards offering more long-tail solutions. As pure infrastructure becomes more and more commoditized, vendors are looking for ways to differentiate themselves, one of the most effective…

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GreenQloud and Xeround Launch Cloud Database on 100% Renewable Energy

October 29, 2012

Business

AWS, cloud computing, Giza Venture Capital, GreenQLoud, Iceland, Information technology, Verne Global, Xeround

A year or two ago a minor storm circled around the cloud community after a report was published questioning the environmental impacts of cloud computing. The report was pretty flawed – it omitted to take into account the generally…

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On Creating Another Silicon Valley, And Why Iceland Shouldn’t…

GreenQloud Goes Hybrid – QStack Built On Top Of CloudStack

GreenQloud – Because PRISM isn’t the Only Way for Non US Clouds to Differentiate

GreenQloud Looks to Both Deepen and Broaden Service–Internationalization and QloudSync

GreenQloud and Xeround Launch Cloud Database on 100% Renewable Energy