smb café 13 jun '13 - intellimagic - willem hogeweg
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Presentation by Willem Hogeweg of Intellimagic for the Science meets Business café of 13 Jun 2013. This event was held in the BioPartner Accelerator building in Leiden.TRANSCRIPT
Smart Storage Sizing
Storage Intelligence
© IntelliMagic 2013
Storage Performance Management
Software for petabytes
Storage Intelligence
IntelliMagic
• Software development company
• Datacenters use our software to monitor their data storage performance
• Started 10 years ago
• 2 owners who work in company
• Leiden (head office). Sales offices in Munich (D) and Dallas (US)
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Storage Intelligence
IntelliMagic VisionEnrich, Analyze and Report
IntelliMagicVision
Consolidated Views of
Disk Storage Systems
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Large companies all over the world, with lots of data on dedicated Disk and Tape systems
Companies where IT is critical to business operations - think banks, logistics companies
Small customer base, but they are large companies who spend a lot on our software
We create off-the-shelf software, not tailor-made for each customer
Our Customers
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Working at IntelliMagic
Owners involved in development
Innovation is important
High level of knowledge
Developers have Master degrees in
Mathematics, Electrical Engineering,
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence,
Physics,…
Interesting & technical application area
High but achievable ambitions
Informal culture, nice atmosphere
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Business Strategy Our “assets” are our people and our Intellectual
Property Growth:
• 2 people in Jan 2003 38 people in Jun 2013• Strictly organic growth, based on profitability• Truly financially independent:
• No external funding, no bank loans, no investors
Goals:• Innovation and quality and financial stability • A great place to work for owners and employees• Growth not a goal in itself, but a nice corollary• But if someone offered 100 M wouldn’t turn it
down
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Thank youQuestions?
www.intellimagic.net