Helena Torras is Partner and Interim Manager of Spanish cloud computing platform abiquo.com: „Abiquo offers open source software that allows companies to create and manage complex IT infrastructure such as virtual servers, networks, storage, applications – but everything together in one click. It’s both very fast and simple and reduces time to market. You open the service when you need it - as soon as you don’t need it anymore you close it and pay on demand“ raves Helena.
Hosting providers can sell the time in which one company doesn’t use the server to another one, so they can get efficiency. Furthermore, abiquo software enables companies to create their private cloud and link it with the public cloud of Amazon Web Services. Abiquo’s core product allows you to create and manage the cloud for free - premium license with increased trustability, statistics, billing as well as outer scale has to be paid.
Helena, who had been a consultant for eight years, entered abiquo together with „some other business angels“ in 2007 because „we liked the vision“. She believes that „now is the time of cloud computing and we have to accelerate it so we are dedicated full time for abiquo. Helena argues that cloud computing has profoundly changed information technology because it allows you to pay for what you need and what you use.
Cloud computing undoubtedly created a new paradigm, but does it also endanger liberties and makes users dependent on the cloud computing provider as its critizisers say?
Learn more about cloud computing by watching Viktoria’s interviews with Amazon’s CTO Werner Vogels as well as with Adam Selipsky, VP of Amazon Web Services. More interviews from Red Herring 100 Europe will be published here in the days to come.
