Nivio is a privately held company founded in August 2004 by Sachin Duggal and Saurabh Dhoot with offices in Geneva, London and New Delhi. In 2007, AMD invested an undisclosed sum to assist in development efforts. Nivio claims the title “World’s first Windows PC in the Cloud” and offers users a cloud computing service running Windows XP (soon Windows 7), the ability to rent full versions of all the Microsoft applications monthly and 10GB of free storage.

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  • Matt Colebourne
  • Sachin Duggal
  • Saurabh Dhoot
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  • Matt Colebourne
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  • Nivio is a privately held company founded in August 2004 by Sachin Duggal and Saurabh Dhoot with offices in Geneva, London and New Delhi. In 2007, AMD invested an undisclosed sum to assist in development efforts. Nivio claims the title “World’s first Windows PC in the Cloud” and offers users a cloud computing service running Windows XP (soon Windows 7), the ability to rent full versions of all the Microsoft applications monthly and 10GB of free storage. 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. The company was selected as one of the 2009 Technology Pioneers by the World Economic Forum. Nivio has also recently announced the launch of the nivioCompanion, 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 but, to date, no information has been released on takeup. 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. An Australian launch is believed to be imminent with a selected partner but the company have not released details. Despite the nivioCompanion, 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 although it has stated that it will be holding a major conference on its screen strategy in August 2009.
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  • Sachin Duggal
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  • Nivio is a privately held company founded in August 2004 by Sachin Duggal and Saurabh Dhoot with offices in Geneva, London and New Delhi. In 2007, AMD invested an undisclosed sum to assist in development efforts. Nivio claims the title “World’s first Windows PC in the Cloud” and offers users a cloud computing service running Windows XP (soon Windows 7), the ability to rent full versions of all the Microsoft applications monthly and 10GB of free storage.
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