Leaping into the cloud

One of the founders of the high-performance cloud computing company GreenButton, acquired by Microsoft in the first half of 2014, has joined fellow New Zealand minnow ARANZ Geo’s board. ARANZ, which celebrated 10 years in business this year, claims to have sold the Leapfrog 3D geological modelling software to thousands of users in more than 50 countries.

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Scott Houston … sees growth potential in New Zealand’s ARANZ Geo

Scott Houston, now a director of Christchurch-based ARANZ Geo, co-founded GreenButton in 2006. Microsoft saw GreenButton as a global leader in the Platform as a Service (PaaS) field.