CHEYENNE, WY – 2/1/2012 – Cloud hosting and colocation provider, Green House Data, announced today that their infrastructure as a service product tops the chart for the fastest cloud in the Denver area.  Testing was performed by Compuware via CloudSleuth.net, the company’s cloud performance testing application.

With a response time of 0.42 seconds to Denver, Green House Data ranks as the fastest cloud for the area, a speed that is more than three times faster than the second closest provider.  These competitors include companies such as Amazon EC2, Rackspace, GoGrid and over a dozen others.  The company attributes their speed to high performance cloud infrastructure built on the latest hardware as well as strong network connectivity from multiple carriers (Century Link, Zayo, Level 3).

“We are very proud that our infrastructure as a service product is proving to be the fastest cloud in the Denver metropolitan region,” stated Green House Data president, Shawn Mills.  “Cloud performance and availability is crucial to our clients’ success.  Having a benchmark is a great opportunity to keep our strong momentum going and see other markets that we can work to improve.”

Compuware initially began the cloud performance measurement tool for internal purposes.   However, the information was so valuable that the company decided to make it more broadly available under the CloudSleuth.net domain.  To achieve the speed analytical data, the company launches identical applications within each cloud platform.  Test transactions are then deployed and monitored for response time and availability from various points around the globe.  This information is then automatically reported on the website and can be seen in time frames from six hours to thirty day performance histories.

About Green House Data

Green House Data is an SSAE 16, Type II data center offering premium cloud hosting and colocation services without the high price tag.  The current facility is powered by 100% renewable wind energy and operates 40% more energy efficiently than traditional data centers.  The company provides managed servers, managed storage, dedicated infrastructure, disaster recovery and offsite backup to customers around the region, nation and world.  Green House Data is a participant in VMware’s Service Preferred Program.  Learn more at www.greenhousedata.com.

Compuware Corporation

Compuware Corporation, the technology performance company, provides software, experts and best practices to ensure technology works well and delivers value. Compuware solutions make the world’s most important technologies perform at their best for leading organizations worldwide, including 46 of the top 50 Fortune 500 companies and 12 of the top 20 most visited U.S. websites. Learn more at: www.compuware.com.

Thomas Burns, VP Business Development and Founder, has been selected as a speaker for the 2012 MSPWorld

CHEYENNE, WY – 1/23/12 – Today Green House Data, a cloud hosting and colocation provider, announced that Thomas Burns, co-founder and Vice President, has been selected to speak at MSPWorld Conference and Expo this February 1^st- 3^rd in Miami. MSPWorld is the only event focused on supporting managed service providers.

Burns will present on the topic of selling the cloud, or IaaS (infrastructure as a service), through a channel partner program.  His session, Successful Strategies for Selling Cloud Services and Demystifying Compensation, will be on Wednesday, February 1, at 1:30pm – 2:20pm.

“It’s an honor to speak at MSPWorld.  We’ve attended in past years, and now that we are speaking, it highlights one of our many successes in this competitive and growing industry,” replied Thomas Burns, VP Business Development and Founder, Green House Data.

Burns’ session will cover many areas of selling IaaS, including: the hurdles channel partners face when selling the cloud and how advancements in the industry have overcome these hurdles; a strategy for both selling and compensation packages for resellers; and how to choose a cloud service provider that fits best with the channel partner’s business.

MSPAlliance’s MSPWorld is one of the largest and most influential cloud and managed services conference and expositions. Collocated with the ITEXPO, the event allows company leaders from the managed services industry to network, share ideas, and identify ground breaking new technologies, all in an environment specific to the managed services profession.  The theme for MSPAlliance’s MSPWorld 2012 Miami is “Debate IT”.

About Green House Data

Green House Data is an SSAE 16, Type II data center offering premium cloud hosting and colocation services without the high price tag.  The current facility is powered by 100% renewable wind energy and operates 40% more energy efficiently than traditional data centers.  The company provides managed servers, managed storage, dedicated infrastructure, disaster recovery and offsite backup to more than 70 customers from 24 states and 3 countries.

There’s a funny expression that we’ve noticed over the years. When someone wants to know if you are proficient in a given environment, they might ask, for instance, “Do you code in C-sharp?” (for C#). Or they might ask if a person can “handle” PHP or simply “write” in Ruby or some other language.

With Oracle products, especially database-intensive products, we sometimes hear, “Do you speak Oracle?” That is, it gets treated more like French or Flemish, a whole language with idioms, customs and the rest.

All of this comes to mind because we know that many people who “speak” Oracle right now are looking around, wondering if they can switch to a cloud environment or a VMware service provider using a cloud environment.

The answer is yes, we can.

The next question may be this: Can we host on a VMware platform and try to help the environment a little?  The answer there again is yes. Our data center is more efficient than a typical data center, and is powered 100 percent by renewable wind energy.

So that means that if you speak Oracle AND want to speak to the earth as well by not using fossil fuels to run your data center, you should definitely “speak” to us by using our contact page.

Contact us if you’d like more information on this facility or the cloud hosting or colocation services we offer.

CHEYENNE, WY – 1/9/12 – Green House Data, one of the nation’s first green data centers offering cloud hosting and colocation services, has partnered with mechanical and electrical engineering firm Deerns America for both their expertise in green data center design and for their patented Green Cooling for Data Centers (GC-DC^©) air conditioning technology.  This energy efficient data center will operate at levels 75% more efficient than the typical data center, according to the Uptime Institute survey in May 2011.

Set to open its doors in the first quarter of 2013, the new 25,000 square foot facility will utilize year round 100% free cooling.  The air conditioning technology has been custom designed by Deerns America and when combined with the data center’s overall efficiency will allow the Green House Data facility to run at an annual average Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of 1.16 and a peak PUE of 1.22.

“This progressive step is an exciting advancement for our company adding additional data center space utilizing energy efficient 100% free cooling,” stated Shawn Mills, President of Green House Data. “I see the increasing demand for low-energy cooling systems, green technologies and efficiencies as an avenue to reduce utility costs and offer these savings to our clients in this competitive industry.”

100% Free Cooling System Design

The innovative cooling combines proven technologies in a new application that can serve up to 40 kW of IT load per rack. Within each unit, outdoor air is drawn through a plate heat exchanger where it absorbs heat from the IT room’s hot return air.  It is then cooled and re-circulated through the data center. By separating the air streams in this way, the outside air can be cooled evaporatively without influencing the humidity in the white space and without risk of contamination from dust, smoke, pollen, and other particulates. Even as outdoor air temperatures rise, evaporative coolers will provide low-energy supplemental cooling without requiring the use of refrigeration based cooling systems.

The proprietary cooling design removes the need for under floor plenums as the units can deliver cool air directly to the computer floor, which is optimal for Green House Data’s use of hot, and/or cold aisle containment. Additionally, the cooling system can seamlessly grow along with Green House Data’s modular data center building design as new units can be added as needed.

“With the cool, dry geographical location selection chosen by Green House Data, implementing our free cooling system will have a great impact on energy efficiency,” stated Gary Cudmore, Principal of Data Center Engineering for Deerns America. “Additionally, the GC-DC^© system we’ve developed for this project will provide a data center environment complying with ASRHAE TC 9.9 guidelines without the need for expensive, energy-intensive chillers.”

About Green House Data

Green House Data is an SSAE 16, Type II data center offering premium cloud hosting and colocation services without the high price tag.  The current facility is powered by 100% renewable wind energy and operates 40% more energy efficiently than traditional data centers.  The company provides managed servers, managed storage, dedicated infrastructure, disaster recovery and offsite backup to more than 70 customers from 24 states and 3 countries.

About Deerns America

Deerns is a privately-owned firm founded in 1928 with headquarters in the Netherlands and branches in the United States (Denver, CO and Rockville, MD), Germany, France, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Dubai. This company has grown into one of the largest independent mechanical and electrical consulting firms in the European building services engineering industry with more than 500 engineers employed worldwide. Deerns is focused on critical infrastructure including data centers, airports, hospitals, clean rooms, and Level 3 & 4 biohazard labs. Deerns also provides services to commercial, educational, and governmental clients throughout the world. Deerns’ approach is focused on energy efficiency, reliability, modularity, and scalability. In the last v5 years Deerns designed more than 2.3M sq. ft. of white space with almost 700MW in IT power.  Learn more at http://www.deerns.com.

Both halves of your two-person “IT department” are fidgeting nervously.

A holiday is right around the corner — Christmas, Memorial Day, whatever — which calls for a coin toss to determine who’s on call to tend the servers.

It’s a secret ceremony kind of thing, usually involving a mano-a-mano recitation of choice lines from The Matrix.

Agent Smith: “You’re empty.” Neo: “So are you.”

Agent Brown: “What were you doing?” Agent Jones: “He doesn’t know.”

After about a minute of this, the high-stakes toss takes place. The loser is NEVER happy.

Yeah. You didn’t know they did this, did you?

It’s time for an intervention. (You’ll want to practice your Morpheus voice first.) Tell them you had to choose between the red pill and the blue pill — and you picked the red pill.

Don’t worry. They’ll understand.

The red pill means the scales are off your eyes. You know the words “coin toss” have no place in ensuring vital operational continuity.

The Matrix is a movie. “The cloud” is real, and cloud hosting gives you the dependable performance, security, and connectivity that even Neo would have envied.

Our data center is SSAE 16, Type II Compliant, with stringent internal controls over our infrastructure and cloud services to meet even the highest regulatory standards.

Plus, Green House Data really is green — as in, highly focused on sustainability. We’re 100-percent powered by renewable wind energy. There’s more. Get details on our Green House Gives Program.

Continuity is imperative for every successful operation, right? So, toss the coins — and the blue pills — and contact us today.

Hear from our cloud hosting customer, Jess Askey, web developer for New Belgium Brewing as he discusses the web service they receive from Green House Data.

Cloud hosting from Green House Data is a great solution for New Belgium due to the large traffic spikes they see during times of new marketing campaigns, beer seasons, and new beer releases. Additionally, it was important to them that the provider also have a similarly aligned environmental model. Green House Data’s wind powered data center was able to meet those needs and offer a great price that was 10% less than the competition.

New Belgium Brewing is the third largest craft brewer in the United States. Most famous for their Fat Tire Amber Ale, they produce eight year-round beers and a host of seasonal brews. In addition to producing their world class beers, New Belgium takes pride in being a responsible corporate role model with progressive programs such as employee ownership, open book management and a commitment to environmental stewardship.

Learn more about our Cloud Hosting Services or about our Green Data Center. See more Video Testimonials.

Reposted from an article in January 2011.

One significant benefit of cloud hosting services is the reduced energy consumption. As a recent post from Pike Research points out, outsourcing data centers leads to savings on manpower, money, and energy. Clouds are less expensive to operate, consume less energy, and have higher utilization rates than traditional data centers.

This post summarizes a recent report from Pike Research, a market research and consulting firm that provides in-depth analysis of global clean technology markets. The report, “Cloud Computing Energy Efficiency,” gives an in-depth analysis of the energy efficiency benefits of cloud computing.

According to the report, growth in the cloud computing market will have a substantial impact on energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, Pike Research forecasts that continued adoption of cloud computing will lead to a reduction of data center energy consumption of 31 percent from 2010 to 2020.

The post goes on to state that the transition to the cloud will continue to accelerate:

Furthermore, it’s important to note that the spread of cloud computing services is helping to create a virtuous circle, wherein suppliers of servers, network equipment, disk drives, and cooling and power equipment increasingly design their products to suit the needs of large cloud operators, leading to improved operating margins through better use of electricity, and in turn to more adoption.

At Green House Data, we take the energy efficiency of cloud hosting one step further. Our 10,000 square foot green data center is powered entirely through renewable wind energy.

Our high-availability and secure facility operates at a 40% lower energy utilization per square foot than comparable data centers. Contact us to discover how this energy savings can translate into a cost savings for you.

Cloud Hosting and Colocation Provider Increases their Commitment to Renewable Energy

CHEYENNE, WY – December 16, 2011 – Announced today, Green House Data has increased their purchase of Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) by 100% in 2011.  Due to the company’s exceptional growth of cloud hosting and colocation services, paired with their voluntary commitment to 100% renewable energy, Green House Data has expanded their green power purchase to 1.8M kWh.  This annual electricity purchase is equivalent to avoiding 1,303 tons of carbon dioxide emissions, or in other words, eliminating the green house gas emissions of approximately 250 cars each year.

Earlier in 2011, the company was recognized by being named to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Green Power Leadership Club, an honor given to organizations that have significantly exceeded the EPA Green Power Partnership’s minimum green power purchase requirements.

“As a data center, it’s important to acknowledge the effects of our energy use on our environment.  As we continue to grow, our commitment to using 100% wind power will contribute even more to reducing green house gas emissions,” stated Shawn Mills, President, Green House Data.  “Our goal is to be one of only a few companies in the category of information technology to make the EPA’s National Top 50 list.”

Non-hydropower renewable energy makes up less than 3% of U.S. energy infrastructure, with coal and natural gas making up approximately 68%.  The technology is available to increase the amount of renewable energy, but creating onsite renewable energy for private use has many hurdles.  Subsequently, Green House Data chooses to purchase RECs through Renewable Choice, a renewable energy and carbon measurement, management and offset firm.  More than half of e-green tags are purchased not by requirements, but by independent buyers, such as Green House Data. Historically, purchases of RECs in the voluntary market (like those purchased by Green House Data) have outpaced purchases in the compliance market.

“By continuing to purchase 100 percent green power while growing their business, Green House Data is demonstrating that responsible environmental practices make good business sense,” said Blaine Collison, Director of EPA’s Green Power Partnership. “We applaud Green House Data’s commitment to protect the environment by using green power and hope other organizations will follow their lead.”

About Green House Data
Green House Data is the Rocky Mountain Region’s first high-density data center powered by 100% renewable wind energy. The company’s green data center offers high-availability cloud hosting and colocation services at prices which are approximately ten percent less expensive than its competitors. Additional services from Green House Data include managed servers, managed storage, dedicated infrastructure, disaster recovery and offsite backup.

About EPA’s Green Power Partnership
The Green Power Partnership is a voluntary program that encourages organizations to buy green power as a way to reduce the environmental impacts associated with electricity use. The Partnership currently has close to 1,300 Partner organizations voluntarily purchasing more than 21 billion kilowatt-hours of green power annually. Partners include a wide variety of leading organizations such as Fortune 500® companies, small and medium-sized businesses, local, state, and federal governments, and colleges and universities. For additional information, please visit http://www.epa.gov/greenpower.