| In the words of a great song: "You just gotta ignite, the light, and let it shine/Just own the night like the 4th of July"... well, this is the time to empower yourself with GreenQloud! | | | |  | | It's the season of national holidays and last month we celebrated Þjóðhátíðardagurinn, or Iceland National Day on June 17. It was a landmark celebration honouring the 70th anniversary of the foundation of the Republic of Iceland! Being an international bunch (there are 15 nationalities represented on GreenQloud's team), we're also celebrating Canada Day, Independence Day, Bastille Day and many more. June also represented a ton of opportunity to evangelise our service offering at industry events in Europe and the US. We spent a lot of time reaching out to customers and friends, to hear how GreenQloud has empowered them with our Truly Green™ fuel and helping them make the most of our world-class, sustainable cloud solutions, whether private, hybrid or public. We intend to carry on doing so every month, and offer a stage to even more customers, highlighting the many creative uses they've been using our cloud products. FOCUSED ON YOU! | | | New community forums We take our customer service seriously, which is predicated by taking our customers seriously. We intend to create a vibrant, friendly community, not just about technology but empowered by the Qloud™. | | | |  | | After writing a nice how-to on it, we started deploying Discourse, a sleek and modern forums engine, and integrating it into our website. Soon everyone will be able to join and enjoy the many benefits and cool things we have in store! | | | New section on Saturdays |  | | To further our efforts to bring our community into our everyday life and operations, and to help the community grow and help each other, we're starting a new weekly article on Saturdays, showcasing the best tips coming from GreenQloud users. Our standard offer still stands: you can earn up to $100 in GreenQloud credits if you send in a tip, how-to or other article! | | | Hack challenge Not only did we create a GreenQloud plugin to use with Vagrant, we also fired up a Hack Challenge for you to bring your creativity to life. | | | |  | | Head over to the article, and read what it's all about! We have $15 credits waiting for you to cover development and testing expenses, plus some nice prizes at the end of the competition! | | | CloudNOW |  | | GreenQloud proudly sponsored the Annual CloudNOW Top Women in Cloud Awards held at Parc55 in San Francisco. We were there to support the involvement of women in cultivating cloud platforms and to acknowledge the achievements of women in the cloud industry. | | | |  | | Our CMO Paula Gould was also asked to accept the prestigious "Top Women in Cloud" Award on behalf of Lily Cole, who runs her website and app impossible.com on GreenQloud's Truly Green™ infrastructure. Huge thanks to Lily and to Kwame Corp. for believing in us and finding ways to win together! | | | |  | | It was great catching up with colleagues and hearing rousing debates about the future of cloud. | | | International Supercomputing Conference Our next stop on the #QloudVikings tour was to ISC'14 in Leipzig, Germany. ISC'14 featured topics such as the future direction of HPC technologies, life science applications, big data, quantum computing, and the real-world value of HPC. There, GreenQloud's QStack was featured in 3 different partner booths: Advania, Verne Global and Iceotope. This gave our team ample opportunity to discuss how GreenQloud's full suite of cloud services (standalone private cloud, hybrid and public cloud) can meet the growing demands of enterprise HPC. | | | CO2 savings Sustainability is at the very core of who we are and it is ever more apparent that it's core to our customers too. Worldwide, GreenQloud customers have saved 75,596 kgs of CO2 to date by choosing to use GreenQloud [cue applause]. But we're far from finished! We'll continue advocating for cleaner solutions and encourage you to do the same! Don't forget to share your CO2 savings stats directly from the public cloud console! | | | 2Degrees Champion Awards Next week we head to London's Wembley stadium in hopes of securing the top honour for the 2Degrees Network Champion Award for Energy and Carbon Management: short term payback category. | | | Knowledge is power We continued to publish articles that showcase the possibilities the Qloud™ has to offer, diving into software that can turn your virtual machine(s) into community hubs and enterprise productivity tools – and all that without a single gram of CO2 emitted. Here’s a quick recap of the topics covered in June: | | | One last thing... One last thing… - Remember, that if you need help with anything, check out our support pages or send us an email at support[at]greenqloud[dot]com.
- Likewise, if you have any customer stories about how you’re using GreenQloud, with any tips and tricks that other users should know about, we’d love to hear from you.
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