Lyon/Dresden, January 31, 2018. iExec and Cloud&Heat have signed a partnership agreement to provide greener computing solutions. iExec is currently working on the integration of computing units provided by Cloud&Heat. By joining the iExec network, these machines will strengthen the iExec decentralized marketplace offering and computing capacity.

On the way to a green cloud computing

Cloud&Heat develops individual computer centre solutions and cloud infrastructures in Dresden. The wasted heat of servers is used to heat buildings and provide hot water, without impairing the performance of computer systems.

Cloud&Heat is therefore living the German “way of cloud” and offers customized Private and Public Cloud solutions based on high-efficient and water-cooled hardware, powered by OpenStack.

The company meets the highest requirements concerning reliability, data protection, and process stability. Thanks to an innovative water-cooling system, heat generated by servers is not wasted but recycled to heat office and business premises. This leads to record-breaking low energy values cutting cloud operative costs by up to 50%.

A strong decentralized computing ressources network

With this new partnership, iExec demonstrates once more its willingness to establish a strong network of decentralized computing providers with a green and sustainable positioning. After Stimergy, the partnership with Cloud&Heat is an additional step towards our collaboration strategy with a large panel of green computing providers.

iExec is building a decentralized and global cloud marketplace, where anyone can rent out idle processing power or dedicated machines for profit. This ensures data is computed close to the user, at an affordable rate and in a scalable fashion. Collecting available computer resources from all over the world will ultimately result in a completely new Internet, in which anyone can be a resource provider.