Amazon buys Nice, company Asti: “Chosen for our 3D design software ‘- Il Sole 24 Ore

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Born in 1996 in the hills of Asti – “in a garage converted to our computing needs, knows how to do it in Silicon Valley? “-, acquired today by none other than Amazon, Amazon Web Services to be accurate, the division cloud computing, which registered significant growth quarter over quarter. “We are very proud that the largest company in the world cloud has selected us, is a positive example for what software companies can do in Italy,” said Giuseppe Ugolotti the Sole 24 Ore, 69, founder and CEO of Nice.

financial details were not disclosed. Yet we know that the company will continue to be called Nice, with the same mangament, and will stay in Asti. “We will continue to be ourselves and to grow. We will have more strength and synergies. ” The company closed 2015 with a turnover of 4 million and a half euro, up from 3.2 million in 2015. It has about forty employees. To understand why from Seattle have put the spotlight on Asti Perhaps you can start by Nice customers. All houses of Formula 1, for example. Or Boeing and Airbus aerospace, major oil companies from Eni, General Electric. Or Ansys, the most widely used engineering simulation software.

“We have been pioneers in distributed computing, and in 2000 we invented the first grid portal» more Ugolotti, electronics engineer. Before Google became what it is today, and before you affirm the paradigm of cloud computing, Nice put up a web interface allowing to make remote distributed computing. The breakthrough occurred with the development of a remote software in 3D it is today its flagship and has aggiuditato an international award in Austin. From anywhere in the world with a PC, or tablet smarpthone companies can carry out engineering projects with high performance without investment in physical computer (workstation).

The software is used to design turbines and engines, to preview what the critical issues in the energy field for drilling. The same happens in the field geological and doctor. Recently also in universities: there are already 15 actually including Harvard and Yale. And in perspective the Nice software could also be applied in the TV streaming services. Netflix today announced that it has accomplished the migration on the Amazon cloud and closed all the latest data center used by the streaming service.

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