The inspiration for GreenButton was the devilishly complicated battle scene in the 2003 movie “The Lord of the Rings” 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.
Fade to today. The GreenButton start-up claims its newfangled Cloud Fabric is the first server solution to let users – both the enterprise and service providers – deploy, manage and run compute-intensive applications in either private or public clouds or, for that matter, in multiple multi-tenant clouds.
It’s talking about what it calls “Big Compute,” 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.