Pixeom began life as a Kickstarter project. Now it counts dozens of Fortune 500 companies as clients.
, they included software that allowed users to store and share files, create an online marketplace, and run discussion groups.
So, Pixeom agreed to license its software to Samsung, and Samsung invested in the company. The funding was welcome — and a model for Pixeom's future; it would eventually raise funds from other customers. The partnership with Samsung also helped point the company in a different direction. Gradually, Pixeom shifted its focus from helping consumers and small businesses set up their own small-scale cloud services to helping corporate customers run the software designed for and offered through Amazon Web Services and other cloud computing providers in their own data centers.
Take offshore oil rigs. Such rigs generate lots of data each day, but uploading all that information to the cloud would be a painstaking process given the types of data connections that are available out in the open ocean. It would be much more efficient for the energy company that owns the rig to process and analyze on a server much closer to the rig, Nagar said.
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