GoPC was selected as one of 5 finalists this week to present on stage to the main body of the Silcom Ventures 2009 Summit at Stanford University. http://www.silicomsummit2009.com/ The Summit included key notes from industry luminaries such as Meg Whitman (ex CEO eBAY), Vinod Khosla (one of Silicon Valley’s most successful and respected VC’s), amongst others.
This was an amazing opportunity for our company to present to an international conference of 350 technology investors and Venture Capitalists as we reach out for our next stage of investor funding to fuel growth of the business and to establish supercomputer nodes in other continents.
There is huge interest from Silicon Valley VC’s in the field of cloud computing and GoPC is certainly in the sweet spot with one of the leading technologies. We have now repositioned our company message slightly as the term “cloud computing” is becoming so misued that we are concerned it will shortly become a meaningless term.
So here’s the new pre-positioning statement:
At a high level:
GoPC is a “Delivery Framework” for cloud computing.
It handles everything a user needs for their IT: security, data, applications, and social technology.
It does this by hosting everything in a distributed supercomputer and delivers a service to the user by means of a virtual desktop interface (VDI), by use of web applications (eg. Zimbra), to the mobile phone, and to other external systems on the internet.
At a user level:
GoPC is a complete replacement of your personal computer.
Your desktop, applications, data and settings run in the cloud.
Whatever physical computing device you have is used simply as a viewer, without any dependancy. Mac, PC, Smartphone …
In includes full desktop functionality and applications to rival a typical PC/Server network,
a cloud delivery system to rival simple web based apps,
and online storage to rival any storage provider … and does it 10x faster.
Web apps, full desktop experience, fully managed, and extremely low cost.
