Star%ng Glossom  up 

Piero Rivizzigno President and Founder 

Milano, 2.7.2009 

Glossom 

A  strong visual web applica%on that allows crea%ve professionals  to promote and distribute their  visual work throughout  the web to find projects, co‐workers and inspira%onal content  

How do I Promote Myself and  My Stuff? 

Through my Profile Page… 

…and through the Content Distribu%on features 

How it works 

The 10.000 Feets Map 

The Infrastructure 

Glossom As Is

Cost Element Internal (initial)

Cloud (initial)

Internal (monthly)

Cloud (monthly)

Internal (3Y)

Cloud (3Y)

Rack w/monitor, keyboard, mouse €4.000 €0 €0 €0 €4.000 €0 UPS Kit €2.500 €0 €0 €0 €2.500 €0 Switches €1.400 €0 €0 €0 €1.400 €0 Load balancer €6.000 €0 €0 €0 €6.000 €0 Servers €12.000 €0 €0 €370 €12.000 €13.320 Storage €4.000 €0 €0 €20 €4.000 €720 Firewalls €1.000 €0 €0 €0 €1.000 €0 Expected labor €1.200 €0 €600 €200 €22.800 €7.200 Bandwidth & Internet Connection €500 €0 €500 €0 €18.500 €0

TOTALS €32.600 €0 €1.100 €590 €72.200 €21.240

Internal: DELL Hardware Including base professional service 3 Y

Cloud: BrightBox VM AWS

Why do we go in the cloud? 

Because for a startup it’s the only way to go and it’s true! 

TOTAL £218.00

USD 12.00

Really true! USD 24.90

USD 13.28

It’s money but it’s %me too! 

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Without  the availability of open source so]ware and cloud compu%ng offering Glossom could not have started. That’s why as long as proprietary so]ware approaches are concerned…