{"id":4714,"date":"2012-11-21T20:34:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T20:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2456288"},"modified":"2012-11-21T20:34:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T20:34:00","slug":"cloud-computing-greenbutton-uses-multiple-clouds-for-big-compute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cloud-computing-greenbutton-uses-multiple-clouds-for-big-compute\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Computing: GreenButton Uses Multiple Clouds for Big Compute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The inspiration for GreenButton was the devilishly complicated battle scene in the 2003 movie \u201cThe Lord of the Rings\u201d that its founder Scott Houston pulled together in two weeks for director Peter Jackson against all odds. It was accomplished in record time with thousands of servers and little sleep.<br \/>\nFade to today. The GreenButton start-up claims its newfangled Cloud Fabric is the first server solution to let users \u2013 both the enterprise and service providers \u2013 deploy, manage and run compute-intensive applications in either private or public clouds or, for that matter, in multiple multi-tenant clouds.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s talking about what it calls \u201cBig Compute,\u201d basically deploying as much supplementary processing power as the cloud can provide. Thousands of cores spun up in 20-30 minutes at a fraction of the usual cost.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2456288\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inspiration for GreenButton was the devilishly complicated battle scene in the 2003 movie \u201cThe Lord of the Rings\u201d that its founder Scott Houston pulled together in two weeks for director Peter Jackson against all odds. It was accomplished in re&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}