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May-2009  issue
Cover Story
Author: Vimali Swamy
Forbes lists him in its Top 100 Entrepreneurs and he had one of the most successful ventures of the Internet wave in the late 1990s. He dispels the claims about breakthrough technology innovation but strongly believes in properly... more>>
Top 10 most promising technology companies
si Team
It’s not often that a company gets to be a metaphor for its own success. But Connectiva Systems really is growing while the... more>>
Vimali Swamy
At a time when the world was captivated by television, the Internet changed the scenario with the number of possibilities it... more>>
Aritra Bhattacharya
Dr Parag Pruthi is hiring city planners. “We can afford to hire some really good ones,” he says, unfazed by the global... more>>
Jaya Smitha Menon
Wouldn’t it be nice to host our own Web-scale file system to handle all the data that it processes and stores? As Web-scale... more>>
Jaya Smitha Menon
Vikash Varma, CEO of Stoke was quick to pick the market moves. As a leader who has a successful track record of building... more>>
Vimali Swamy
The Internet boom has put traditional data analytic solutions under severe pressure. The business intelligence (BI) approach,... more>>
Christo Jacob
Forget 3G; it’s now time to think 4G. While all the service providers like Verizon Wireless, Sprint, T-Mobile, Clearwire, and... more>>
Poonam Bhattacharya
David vs Goliath scenarios in real life have rarely panned out as per the lore: more often than not, the Goliaths have won, by... more>>
Poonam Bhattacharya
If any of those components fail to function correctly it could translate into huge revenue losses for the website, apart from... more>>
Poonam Bhattacharya
Chander Kant, CEO and a founder of Zmanda, is hoping one thing from this recession continues: the opening of closed mindsets... more>>
In My Opinion
Vivek Ranadive
I first came to the U.S. in 1974 with only $50 in my pocket and a desire to get the best technical education I could. In the... more>>
Kanwal Rekhi
Though the global economy is going through one of its worst recessions in recent memory, this could be boom-time for real... more>>
Venture Perspective
Ajit Nazare
Areas of Interest Greentech: Within Greentech, energy efficiency in form of green building materials and smart grid and... more>>
AMISH JANI
First is the continued growth in the consumption of digital media services, particularly in areas like online video, gaming,... more>>
Promod Haque
Globally, I believe that we are seeing some very interesting growth equity opportunities (particularly in India) across a wide... more>>
Rob Chandra
We are enthusiastic about the shift in enterprise computing architecture that is well underway. Enterprises are shifting from... more>>
Ravi Mhatre
Right now large enterprises are looking to technology innovation and automation as a key solution for further reducing costs... more>>
Salil Deshpande
Almost everyone can see the major trends from a mile away. And they take years to play out, providing sufficient opportunity... more>>
Last Word
K.B. Chandrasekhar
Though entrepreneurship existed in all fields; Silicon Valley, given its culture of ‘Constructive Destruction’, defined the... more>>
Editor's Desk
Harvi Sachar
In this issue, we bring you inspirational stories of 12 Indian entrepreneurs and their companies. We had set about trying to... more>>