Star%ng
Glossom
up
Piero Rivizzigno
President and Founder
Milano, 2.7.2009

Glossom
A strong visual web
applica%on that
allows crea%ve
professionals
to promote and
distribute their visual
work throughout the
web to find projects,
co‐workers and
inspira%onal content

How do I
Promote
Myself and
My Stuff?
Through my
Profile
Page…

…and
through the
Content
Distribu%on
features

How it works

The 10.000 Feets Map

The Infrastructure

Glossom As Is
Cost Element
Rack w/monitor, keyboard,
mouse
Internal
(initial)
€4.000
Cloud
(initial)
€0
Internal
(monthly)
€0
Cloud
(monthly)
€0
Internal
(3Y)
€4.000
Cloud
(3Y)
€0
Why do
we go in
UPS Kit €2.500 €0 €0 €0 €2.500 €0
Switches €1.400 €0 €0 €0 €1.400 €0
Load balancer €6.000 €0 €0 €0 €6.000 €0
Servers €12.000 €0 €0 €370 €12.000 €13.320
the
Storage €4.000 €0 €0 €20 €4.000 €720
Firewalls €1.000 €0 €0 €0 €1.000 €0
Expected labor €1.200 €0 €600 €200 €22.800 €7.200
Bandwidth & Internet
cloud?
Connection €500 €0 €500 €0 €18.500 €0
TOTALS €32.600 €0 €1.100 €590 €72.200 €21.240
Internal: DELL Hardware
Including base professional service 3 Y
Cloud: BrightBox VM
AWS

Because
for a
startup
TOTAL £218.00
it’s the
only
USD 12.00
way to
go and
it’s true!

Really
USD 24.90 true!
USD 13.28

New Virtual Machine Deployed It’s
Today 11:51 am
money
but it’s
%me
BrightBox Order
too!
Today 10:00 am

Without the
availability of open
source so]ware and
cloud compu%ng
offering Glossom could
not have started. That’s
why as long as
proprietary so]ware
approaches are
concerned…