LogMeIn

Last Updated: 21st May 2013
Analyst Coverage: David Norfolk and Fran Howarth

LogMeIn was founded in 2003. Its world headquarters is near Boston, Massachusetts; it has European headquarters in Dublin, Ireland; Asia Pacific headquarters in Sydney, Australia; and development centres in Budapest and Szeged, Hungary.

LogMeIn provides cloud-based apps and associated solutions for remote control, file sharing, systems management, data backup, business collaboration and on-demand customer support for any sort of connected devices (including PCs, servers, Macintosh computers, smartphones, etc.)

It claims that its solutions scale from individual users to large corporations and can be tried, purchased and deployed from any web browser with an Internet connection, by both technical and non-technical users. LogMeIn customers include large corporations, small to medium businesses, internal and outsourced IT service providers, mobile professionals and individual home PC users and technicians. Over 125 million devices worldwide have connected to a LogMeIn service.

LogMeIn has an interesting partnership with ARM over its New Development cloud plaform and Xively development kit for “Internet of Things” apps.

LogMeIn sums up its philosophy thusly: “Our passion: Delighting customers and users of our technology; Our mission: Maximize mobility, connectivity and business productivity; Our vision: Worldwide connectivity for mobile work and life styles”.

Xively Jumpstart Kit

Last Updated: 25th May 2013

What it does

LogMeIn and ARM are collaborating on the Xively Jumpstart Kit, ARM Embed edition, which is a rapid prototyping-to-production toolset intended to reduce the cost, complexity and learning curve required to bring IoT-based connected products and solutions (IoT is the Internet of Things) to market.

This development kit should help to make the IoT a practical reality for developers building next-generation solutions around Internet-connected devices and the cloud-based applications associated with them. It means that developers and businesses can focus on innovation instead of on technology, infrastructure and platforms, thus accelerating time-to-market.

Markets and channels

Both the Xively Jumpstart Kit and Xively Cloud Services are available over the web from www.xively.com

Users

The Jumpstart Kit targets early adopters and visionaries in the IoT space, of all sizes (from small entrepreneurs to established OEMs), and it is of interest to both business and consumer-oriented developers.

Technology

The Xively Jumpstart Kit combines ARM mbed, a platform for rapidly building connected devices using ARM-based microcontrollers, with Xively's cloud platform. According to John Cornish, executive vice president and general manager, System Design Division, ARM: "ARM is increasing opportunities for innovation across the Internet of Things with easy-to-use platforms and standards that accelerate the creation of low-power, end-to-end solutions. LogMeIn's Xively Jumpstart Kit harnesses ARM mbed to support the development of new IoT products..."

According to Michael Simon, CEO of LogMeIn, "The Internet of Things signifies the next major wave of the Internet, one that we believe could even eclipse both the web and mobile waves combined, and presents a massive opportunity for businesses that want to create a new generation of compelling connected products. In order to make this happen, they need a simple, affordable way to experiment and innovate through a platform that will enable them to seamlessly move from prototype to commercial product, and then scale as demand grows."

Services

LogMeIn offers all the usual services needed for web-based serrvice delivery.

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