SAN JOSE, CA — (Marketwired) — 05/21/13 — , the leading provider of compute intensive and integrated on-demand cloud solutions, today announced that it has received the Cisco Hi-Tech Emerging Company award at the recent Gala Dinner held in Auckland, New Zealand. Selected by a national and international judging panel of more than fifty industry leaders including co-founder of Apple, Steve Wozniak, the director of engineering for Google in New York, Craig Nevill-Manning, Cisco-s senior vice president, Howard Charney, the Hi-Tech Awards program recognizes excellence across New Zealand-s technology sector and, according to the judges, the caliber of this year-s entrants was outstanding.
“This year-s finalists were all incredibly innovative, creative and very, very smart and it-s great to see so many new success stories emerging. It-s a key reason why our industry continues to be the fastest growing contributor to New Zealand-s export economy. We should all be very proud of that,” stated Wayne Norrie, NZ Hi-Tech Trust Chair. “The Hi-Tech Awards program continues to go from strength-to-strength every year, with 2013 seeing a record number of first-time entrants and record attendance at all events.”
Accepting the award on behalf of GreenButton, Chief Technology Officer Dave Fellows commented, “This award is a validation of GreenButton-s tremendous growth. We are honored to be among an outstanding group of companies based in New Zealand — all of whom contribute globally to the technology industry. For GreenButton, this award recognizes how far we-ve come and the potential for further success, as we continue to expand our cloud computing platform across the globe.”
Now in their 19th year, the New Zealand Hi-Tech Awards celebrate the success of our producers of goods and services from the software, electronics, telecommunications, mobile, agritech, creative and other hi-tech industries. The Awards are run by the NZ Hi-Tech Trust, a not-for-profit organization that supports and promotes the wider industry. The Board is made up of eight trustees: Bennett Medary, Al Monro and Ross Peat in Auckland, Chair Wayne Norrie, John Fokerd and Neville Jordan in Wellington and Christchurch-based Owen Scott and Andrew Plimmer.
GreenButton is an award winning global software company specializing in On-Demand cloud computing. GreenButton delivers a turnkey solution for cloud-enablement, synchronizing data and bursting apps to the cloud. Enabling enterprises, independent software vendors (ISVs) and service providers to move to the cloud and access cloud resources, GreenButton provides a multi-purpose cloud platform for development and delivery of software and services. GreenButton-s Cloud Fabric empowers users across all industries including digital media, engineering, oil and gas, financial and biotech, to leverage the company-s rapid enablement of vertical applications to virtualized on-demand infrastructure. With GreenButton-s unique feature sets, cloud-based applications across multiple private and public cloud platforms can be easily managed from one centralized and user friendly interface.
GreenButton is Microsoft Corp-s 2011 Windows Azure ISV Partner of the year and the company-s offices are located in New Zealand and the US. For more information, please visit or follow GreenButton on Twitter @GreenButton
GreenButton is a service mark and trademark of GreenButton Limited. All other product names, service marks, and trademarks mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective owners.
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