Here Come the Cloud Services Brokers

Bloomberg Businessweek
As companies start shifting computing tasks to outside providers in the cloud, intermediaries have emerged to help them do it. Systems Integrator Appirio has already made a name for itself.

Helping Companies Move Computing to the Cloud

BusinessWeek
That same year, Chris Barbin decided to reunite a group of colleagues from his former employer, webMethods, to start a venture that would help businesses tap into programs and services accessed on the Web. Barbin, who was chief information officer at Borland Software in Cupertino, Calif., pooled $100,000 with Glenn Weinstein, Mike O’Brien, and Narinder Singh to launch Appirio.

VCs Have Their Heads in the Clouds

BusinessWeek
Stacey Higginbotham at GigaOm looks at the attention cloud computing is drawing from the VC community, using Sequoia Capital's invest in Appirio as an example. "The game-changing potential of those services has venture firms sitting up and taking notice," she says. "So far this year companies providing cloud services or building services on top of the cloud have raked in more than $70 million."

Google I/O: Window Into the Real Future of the Web

BusinessWeek
Summary of a business roundtable at Google I/O, featuring Appirio discussing the near and long term impact of on-demand on the IT industry.

Salesforce.com's Pitch to Startups

Business Week
In a piece about Marc Benioff's latest initiative, Appirio describes its view of the benefits of the salesforce.com Incubator.