January-2011 issue
Cover Story
Author: Vimali Swamy
The headquarters of Santa Clara based PlaySpan is bustling with activity and everyone including the CEO of the company, Karl Mehta seems to be on their toes. And why not? Within four years of its humble beginning in 2007, the company has...
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In My Opinion
Sajan Pillai
When we started our operations in 1999, we were looking for the perfect location for our offshore development centers. Our...
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Business
Eureka Bharali
“If a product can not be sold by the makers themselves, no sales team perhaps can make the sale,” says Bharat Goenka, the...
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CEO Spot Light
Rao Cherukun
Desktop Virtualization (DV) is the hottest trend in the field of virtualization. According to industry analysts, the market for...
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Gautam Godhwani
Gautam Godhwani, a veteran entrepreneur, has extensive experience in establishing organizations and finding talented people to...
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Vijay Srivastava
Cable technology has evolved in the last decade many folds. Adoption of digital technology has provided Multi System Operators...
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Technology
Ajay Jain
The turn of events at the beginning of this millennium will be etched in the memory of global security practitioners for the...
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Arun Samudrala
The rapid growth of Mobile usage in India is indeed remarkable. In the past few years, mobiles have penetrated the most remote...
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Gary Bahadur
Social media sites have gained popularity in the past ten years as a medium to keep in contact with loved ones, business...
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Tad Lebeck
A storage area network (SAN) comprises the most powerful technology available for block-level storage and has been used by...
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Amit Yoran
2010 In Perspective
Cybercrime and other politically and economically motivated attacks on public and private networks have...
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Anjan Ghosal
Mobile data continues to grow at a phenomenal rate in countries that have already deployed data centric 3G networks. AT&T for...
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Ravi Shankar
The term cloud computing has become ubiquitous in the tech world and even SMB companies are leading the pack to opt for cloud...
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Sanjiv Pande
It is very rightly said that ‘Nothing is permanent but change’. However if we look at how the world has changed around us...
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Rahul Chaudhry
Cloud Computing is the new buzzword for businesses. While it is not an entirely new concept, its application to businesses in...
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Tom Rodgers
For many years Open Source ERP has been quietly maturing. With a large following from impartial sites like SourceForge.net and...
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Vinay Singh
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) has become quite an established term over last couple of decades. For most of us it means a...
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Kartik Shahani
Cloud computing delivers convenient, on-demand access to software applications, and services. The cloud computing...
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VC Chakra
SI Team
Appnomic Systems, a provider of application aware IT infrastructure management solutions to large and growing enterprises, has...
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SI Team
Verismo Networks, an Internet TV Platform headquartered in California and with development centre in Bangalore, India, has...
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SI Team
SnapLogic, a San Mateo based cloud integration company, has raised $10 million in Series B funding led by existing investor Ben...
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SI Team
iYogi, the first consumer service brand from India, has raised $30 million in a new round of funding lead by Sequoia Capital....
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SI Team
RiseSmart, a San Jose based outplacement and recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) company has completed a $3 million equity...
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VC talk
Bejul Somaia
The areas we invest in India are fairly broad. Currently we focus on four investments— power sector, financial services,...
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In Focus
si Team
Indian companies are keen in adapting best global practices and are increasingly doing so, says an expert, though he warns that...
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si Team
Astronomers led by an Indian American have discovered a giant planet with an atmosphere and a core dominated by carbon. Nikku...
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Eureka Bharali
The green statement has been luring a lot of startup to grab a pie of the huge e-waste market. The computing devices,...
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si Team
India is the third largest cloud service user in world and is ahead of U.S. The ranking is based on Cisco Connected World...
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Editor's Desk
Christo Jacob
Till now, we swiped our credit or debit cards to make a purchase. In the coming years, this concept may disrupt and we will see...
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