Fly High

CloudVDI, a Tampa-based startup that aims to capture market share in the nascent world of cloud computing on tablets and smart phones for businesses, scored a big-time success with its first customer.

The client, which CloudVDI executives decline to name, is a Fortune 100 company that thinks so much of the firm's patent-pending products and services, it already doubled its order. “That's a significant marker in how desirable this product is,” says Rich Schineller, a Sarasota marketing executive who works with the firm. “They see the potential.”

Austin and Zach Hurst, fraternal twins in Sarasota who have launched several technology firms, co-founded CloudVDI with Tampa-based entrepreneur Ryan O'Connor earlier this year. O'Connor was previously the director of engineering at Savtira, a Tampa-based Web marketing firm that filed for bankruptcy in April.