Asti, Amazon will buy the software company Nice – The Republic

Amazon, through its subsidiary Amazon Web Services, has reached an agreement to buy Nice, a software house Asti. Nice, says a note from the American group, will continue to operate with its brand and, with Amazon Web Services, “will be able to work together to create innovative technologies and high-quality services to help customers accelerate and grow their business” . Nice is a company specializing in software and services for the optimization of high-performance computing.

“A gear change for us,” says Giuseppe Ugolotti, engineer, founder and CEO of Nice “An operation certainly important – says Ugolotti – probably for Amazon. ” Nice, about forty employees and customers “around the world” specializes in software. “We are very well-known in the high performance sector – confirms Ugolotti – and in 2000 we invented the first private cloud. Amazon was interested in entering areas where we are strong and it was possible to get to this operation.” Ugolotti, who founded twenty years ago Nice in a garage like Steve Jobs, said that “the company will remain in Asti with headquarters and research center. It will remain our brand with which we are known. We will continue to grow and we can do it with more force. ” The company closed 2015 with a turnover of 4 million and a half compared to 3.2 million in 2014.

The company’s flagship product is a 3D software that allows you to be anywhere in the world with a pC or even a smarpthone

to execute engineering projects without workstation. It is used to design turbines and engines or simulation of the possible problems during a drill. Other applicazioniriguardano even the medical field.

“I wanted to dedicate myself to wine – concludes Ugolotti – instead I put on this reality. And ‘demonstrated that in this field does not need to be at MIT or Seattle, but you can succeed even starting from a farmhouse in Monferrato. “

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computing

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Giuseppe Ugolotti