Nivio

nivio

Industry	Technology, Cloud Computing
Number of locations	5
Key people	Sachin Dev Duggal (Board) Saurabh Dhoot (Board)
Website	http://www.nivio.com

Nivio is a global Cloud Computing innovator with the unique vision of removing computing constraints and providing ubiquitous access to Windows. The company was selected as a World Economic Forum - Technology Pioneer in 2009.

Nivio’s flagship service is the world’s first Windows-based online desktop. It enables customers to access their personal desktop from any device connected to the internet. The online desktop offers unrestricted storage and power, unfettered access and the ability to rent original and updated software on a rental (pay as you go) basis; liberating users from the traditional constraints of computing.

Founded in 2004 by Sachin Dev Duggal and Saurabh Pradeep Dhoot, nivio is determined to change the complicated and expensive computing ecosystem of today.

Nivio’s vision is to connect everyone to software and content irrelevant of economics; the world’s first Windows-based Online Desktop was launched by nivio to provide the strength of computing to those with or without a PC. Nivio has a mass market focus and is starkly differentiated as an end user brand.

Nivio has close to 100 employees in its three offices located in India, the UK and Australia

Products and services

Services

• nDesktop: Nivio’s flagship offering, nDesktop is World’s first windows-based online desktop that allows users real time access to their online desktop from any internet connected device, anywhere in the world. The desktop has host of other offerings embedded into it that bring the holistic benefits of the cloud to a user.
• nApps: Nivio offers applications on the cloud and as a rental service which allows users to lease software applications for their online desktop and pay as you go usage
• nDrive: Nivio offers online storage solutions for end users (up to 10 GB free storage and more storage available for purchase)
• nShare: This service enables users to share data files, music and pictures online publicly or privately from their own personalised URL

Products

• CloudBook and CloudPC – low-cost, low-energy, pioneering devices. To be priced around $100–200, these compact devices will provide access to a Windows-based operating system and applications which reside in the cloud.

History

2004

Sachin D Duggal and Saurabh P Dhoot founded nivio with the vision to educate 100 million kids in India

2007

nivio launched the World’s first online Windows-based desktop

2009

nivio launched nivio companion with Airtel in India

2009

nivio recognized as a technology pioneer in the World Economic Forum 2009

Achievements

Nivio gave the world its first Windows-based online desktop and allows users to use cloud computing services(soon to offer Windows 7)^{[citation needed]}, the ability to rent full versions of all the Microsoft applications monthly and 10GB of free storage for life. The company also claims that it will, shortly, be launching other major software vendors products within the service and also that it can migrate 98% of applications written for Windows to its platform and thereby allow such vendors to offer their products on a SaaS basis without re-development^{[citation needed]}.

nivio CEO and President, Sachin Dev Duggal speaking at the World Economic Forum,2009.

The company was selected as one of the 2009 Technology Pioneers by the World Economic Forum.^[1][2]

Nivio also announced the launch of the nivioCompanion in 2009,^[3] an early part of its “Computing without a computer” strategy, with Bharti Airtel Limited of India. This is a low cost offering including keyboard, mouse and a set-top-box style terminal. For this, plus a monthly service charge the user gets high-speed broadband access, full Windows XP functionality, Office 2007 and 10GB of storage. The concept behind this is to massively increase Internet access without users having to incur the expense of a full-function PC nor the complexity required to manage one. The Indian media took up the story quite aggressively^[4] but, to date, no information has been released on take up.

Nivio also claims to be acting in the corporate world providing hot-desking and secure remote data access for legal firms and banks using the nivioGrid but managed by integration partners serving those customers and markets. Nivio has started operations in Australia having selected NEC to host its infrastructure for a newly launched hosted Windows service.^{[5][citation needed]}

The company claims not to be a hardware company, stating that its intention is simply to provide people access to their computer from whatever device they want. There are rumors that the company intends to launch a phone and/or wifi device which will also access the service but Nivio has refused to confirm.

Sachin participated in the World Economic Forum 2010 at Davos vouching his support for Cloud Computing and said "If you trust banks, trust the cloud...your data is safe!". Nivio says that is set to launch new products in the year which it claims are set to change the way users compute using the cloud.^{[6][citation needed]}.

Awards and recognition

In 2009, nivio was awarded the Technology Pioneer Award by World Economic Forum ^[7] for its technical innovations in affordable computing access. Later in the year, the President and CEO, Mr Sachin Dev Duggal was appointed Youth Leader of the National Computer and Electronics Committee by ASSOCHAM.

Media appearances

• Sachin’s interview with Young Turks, CNBC <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk96UC57Mmw>
• Nivio in Mint <http://epaper.livemint.com/ArticleImage.aspx?article=09_07_2010_012_002&mode=1>
• Nivio in Hindustan Times <http://www.hindustantimes.com/On-cloud-nine/Article1-569458.aspx>
• Nivio in BS Strategist <http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/nivio-pcthe-cloud/413284/>

Market trends

According to new research (in May 2010) from International Data Corporation (IDC), server revenue for public cloud computing will grow from $582 million in 2009 to $718 million in 2014. Server revenue for the much larger private cloud market will grow from $7.3 billion to $11.8 billion in the same time period.

IDC defines the public cloud as being open to a largely unrestricted universe of potential users; designed for a market, not for a single enterprise. Private cloud deployment is designed for, and access restricted to, a single enterprise (or extended enterprise); an internal shared resource, not a commercial offering; IT organization as "vendor" of a shared/standard service to its users. http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS22335610

India’s cloud computing market will be worth around $1 billion over the next five years, from nearly $110 million currently, according to research firm Zinnov Management Consulting. Software-as-a-service (SaaS), a part of the cloud computing market, will touch $650 million in revenues by 2015, the research firm predicts. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/infotech/software/Cloud-computing-biz-may-touch-1-bn-in-5-years/articleshow/6080458.cms

References

1. ^ World Economic Forum - Technology Pioneers
2. ^ http://www.cxotoday.com/India/News/Nivio_Awarded_WEFs_Technology_Pioneer_for_2009/551-96149-912.html
3. ^ Review: Nivio Companion can do your heavy lifting - Telegraph
4. ^ Airtel, nivio & Microsoft team up for online pc
5. ^ NEC to host Nivio Windows services - Storage - Technology - News - iTnews.com.au
6. ^ "If you trust banks, trust the cloud...your data is safe!" says Sachin Dev Duggal
7. ^ Technology Pioneers | World Economic Forum-Technology Pioneers

External Links

• nivio website
• nivio blog