May-2011 issue
Cover Story
Author: Vimali Swamy
It is quite rare in Silicon Valley for someone to achieve blockbuster success in back-to-back startup ventures but Ajit Gupta has always defied the norm. At Speedera Networks, he built one of the fastest growing companies in the valley,...
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In My Opinion
Raj Kanaya
For golf fans, April is a big month, a time for the biggest of the major tournaments – the Masters. For me, and I suspect for...
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siTech10 2011
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It is a vibrant period of the year, when businesses are moving out of the clutches of recession to a more active pace....
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The 2004 founded, Massachusetts headquartered Aveksa is a provider of comprehensive, enterprise-class, access governance and...
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Founded by Vik Chadha and Robert May in 2008, Cambridge, Massachusetts, headquartered Backupify provides backup for cloud based...
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DesiYou, a global online video distribution and marketing agency, specializes in the global Indian entertainment market. The...
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There is an exponential growth in WAN traffic between large, critical data centers today. Data center applications are...
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LightSquared, a Reston, Virginia, based company led by Sanjiv Ahuja, specializes in building open wireless broadband network....
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Localytics is a software company that offers app analytics platform. Founded by Raj Aggarwal and based out of Cambridge,...
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Moofwd is an enterprise mobile application developer that offers organizations a simple way to extract new value and utility...
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Founded by Jai Jaisimha in 2009, Open Mobile Solutions (OMS) helps people navigate the complexities of the mobile ecosystem and...
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Sathe held a contest last year challenging the company’s employees to develop a new tagline, he insisted on only one thing:...
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Technology
Rao Cherukuri
For ages, users were tied to physical devices for accessing their software applications. The internet, with the availability...
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Satish Mugulavalli
“Television, a scientific dream ever since the telephone was perfected, has at last been realized” – Indianapolis Star,...
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Srihari Kumar
“Sales is from Mars, Marketing is from Venus; the twain don’t see eye to eye” was an oft repeated quote in several...
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Business
Mahesh Dhillon
Competition drives efficiency in our world. There are numerous industries exemplifying this, world over, including;...
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Management
Dave Millner
I often hear that managers just don’t have time for leadership development. They are either too busy dealing with an employee...
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P. R. Venketrama Raja
As a kid, I read a story that has stayed with me for life. The story revolves around two frogs who had lived in the valley all...
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Manav Garg
In classic Bob Dylan style - “The Times They Are A-Changing”! Numerous product conclaves, forums and discussions on how to...
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CEO Spotlight
Saurabh Sinha
A lot has changed in the global sourcing industry in the past fifteen years. While customers are increasingly relying on the...
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Mani Iyer
The online marketing and internet advertising sectors world-wide are estimated at $53 billion (source: Caris & Company, 2011)...
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VC talk
Ashmeet Sidana
Every great investment has two components in common: a great idea, supported by a great team. The first thing we look for: an...
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CIO Insights
Jaya Smitha Menon
We spend over $1 billion in technology. IT has really evolved in banking. 30 years ago banks started investing in technology...
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VC Chakra
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Nutanix, developer of a converged compute and storage appliance for virtualized data centers, received $13.2 million in Series...
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Localytics, a Boston based Software Company offering mobile apps, has raised $2.5 million in Series A from Launchpad Venture...
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In Focus
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Global Business Process Outsourcing in the financial services sector has the potential to reach a market size of $250 billion,...
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Six teams from different engineering colleges of India were awarded in a competition organized by international space agency...
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Indian American doctor Siddhartha Mukherjee’s has won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in the general non-fiction category for his...
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India enjoys a unique position it the global software development and outsourcing services sector and this has made the...
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Rising input costs and high interest rates will reduce India Inc’s profits this fiscal, especially in sectors like cement,...
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Editor's Desk
Christo Jacob
I always admire when I talk to entrepreneurs with innovative ideas. A while back, I read a short story about how a businessman...
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