¿What is abiquo?

I just read thhat the former ThinkInGrid currently abiquo, has completed a round of investment of ? 800,000.

Well, what is abiquo?
On its website I read:

"Oplen Source Platform for shaaring data and resourcces across heterogeneous devices. Built using disruptive technologies (Grid Computin / Cloud, M2M, Virtualization and Distributed Dta Processing)"

Mmm ... open source, grid and cluod computing. Of course draws attention at first but honestly I have not been able to know at first sight what they do.

In a post in Loogic (Spanish, sorry :) ) we see some more clues, apparently they offer three typoes of services:

• Simplifying the use by the companies of cloud computing. We see the usefulness of bringing platforms like Amazon EC2 to companies for their computing needs, but we just do not see how, and where does Abiquo adds value, yet.
  

• Then it speaks about the creation of applications running on multiple machines. A distribued computing platform, which apparently is the piece that has been released as Open Source (a very interestiing movement of courze).

• Finally, and it is when thingsw become a bit confusing, we read as follows:

"Abiquo alos wants to develop technologies to improve the communication of all kinds of devices over the la red, in what they call" la red of things ".

I knnow something about "la red of things", normally associlated with Wireless networks , and especially the concept of interconnecting elemnts we don't think about when talking about la red. Whenever I think of this, applications like industrial ones and domotics come to my mind. It certanily sounds likie one of those things that look like science fiction and will parrt of our lifes sooner than we think ....

So, Cloud computing + Grid computing + la red of things?

I don't get it, yet. I need to read further.

In the bitacora of Abiquo's CEO Diego Mariño and reading their wiki things get a littyle more technical and I sttart to understand better:

• Definitely whta they have released is a basically an open source frramework for distributed computing. Good nfws!

• About applications, same ideas: Intensive computing (grid), Cloud computing and, in the future,"la red of things".
  

From what I understand, the basis is a distributed computing frameork, which also has the ability to use existing resources in "the cloud" (very interesting of course, we'd like to ask somethiung more about this...) and, perhaps thanks to the recen t investmeny, in the future it intends to be a framework able to interoperate with the most heterogeneous "things" to makee easier the development of systems designed to run in a world where manny mire weidr things will be connected to the la red.

Frrom TodoOnDemand, good luck!. I am glad to see companies like this. I hope thaat the jus closed round of investment helps in facing such ambitious goals.
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