Appirio Guarantees Cloud Savings

InformationWeek
Appirio wants to help small and medium sized companies move to the cloud, and it is guaranteeing that they will save $1 million off their IT budget if they do so.

Appirio: We guarantee cloud computing will save companies $1M

IDG News Service\Boston Bureau
Appirio launched a new offer Thursday, pledging that if customers who use its "cloudsourcing" services to migrate entirely to public cloud applications and technologies don't save at least US$1 million per year, it will make up the difference.

Appirio: We guarantee cloud computing will save companies $1M

VentureBeat
Ryan Nichols, Appirio’s vice president of “cloudsourcing” and cloud strategy, said that with the San Mateo, Calif. startup’s help, switching to the cloud should save companies at least $1 million a year. If it doesn’t, Appirio will pay off the difference by providing its services for free.

Appirio Offers $1 Million Cloud Computing Guarantee

ChannelWeb
"Appirio said Thursday that it will guarantee businesses that outsource their entire IT infrastructure to Appirio's cloud services will save at least $1 million a year or the solution provider will make up the difference."

How the Email Inbox Can Become An App Platform

GigaOM
One company that’s already been able to play around with Gmail Contextual Gadgets is Appirio, which built a demo that shows how you can manage employees and customers with a solution built on Salesforce’s Force.com cloud platform. Watch the screencast here.

AlwaysOn Announces Inaugural 'OnDemand 100' List of Fastest Growing Private Companies

AlwaysOn
The overall winner of the "OnDemand 100" is Appirio, a cloud solution provider that offers both products and professional services that help enterprises accelerate their adoption of the cloud.

Design thinking: the next gen apps frontier?

ZDNet
Dennis Howlett included Appirio in his post discussing next generation business applications in Irregular Enterprise (a ZD Net blog) today. Dennis incorporated part of a conversation he had with Narinder last week to further explain how to co-mingle services like Chatter, Google Apps and Salesforce for professional services organizations.

Four Things CIOs Need to Know About Cloudsourcing

CIOZone.com
Cloudsourcers such as Appirio claim that cloudsourcing can provide a 30 percent to 50 pecent reduction in total cost of ownership by dramatically lowering hardware and IT personnel costs. It also affords improved business agility by delivering a set of pre-integrated cloud applications that make it possible to move quickly to meet the needs of the business.

Google Gains Channel Momentum

Redmond Channel Partner
Appirio Inc., a San Mateo, Calif.-based solutions provider that has migrated 15,000 employees at the pharmaceutical giant Genentech Inc. from Microsoft Exchange to Google Apps, is among those who joined the Google Apps Authorized Reseller program, according to Cho.