Written by navin on December 5th, 2008 in In Depth, Overviews 18 Comments
Tags: SCM, Technology
Amit Paranjape, a regular contributor and primary adviser to PuneTech, had earlier written an article giving an overview of Supply Chain Management, and companies in Pune that develop software products in this area. This article, the next in the series, goes into details of the problems that SCM software products need to tackle in a [...]
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Written by navin on November 26th, 2008 in In Depth, Technology 1 Comment
Tags: bloggers, hardware, Technology
Dhananjay Nene has just written a brilliant article in which he gives a detailed overview of multi-core architectures for computer CPUs - why they came about, how they work, and why you should care. Yesterday, Anand Deshpande, CEO of Persistent Systems, while speaking at the IndicThreads conference on Java Technologies exhorted all programmers to understand [...]
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Written by navin on November 24th, 2008 in In Depth 9 Comments
Tags: community, features
Ask PuneTech is a One-Stop Shop for all the information needed by infotech professionals and infotech startups in Pune. Ask us a question, or for a referral, or for some information and we find it for you, or we will put you in touch with person who has previous experience in that area to guide you. Just send an email to ask@punetech.com
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Written by navin on October 15th, 2008 in In Depth No Comments
Tags: csi, desktalk, entrepreneurs
Monish Darda, Director of Product Development at BMC BladeLogic and co-founder of WebSym, wrote an article on the next wave of entrepreneurship in India for CSI Pune’s quarterly newsletter Desktalk. Parts of that article have been reproduced here with permission. You should be able to download the the newsletter (contain the full article) from CSI [...]
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Written by navin on October 13th, 2008 in In Depth, Overviews 3 Comments
Tags: consolidation, data-center, server, virtualization
This is a product-pitch for Colama, a product built by Pune-based startup Coriolis. For the basics of server virtualization, see our earlier guest posts: Introduction to Server Virtualization, and Why do we need server virtualization. Virtualization is fast emerging as a game-changing technology in the enterprise computing space, and Colama is trying to address an interesting [...]
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Written by navin on October 10th, 2008 in Featured, In Depth 1 Comment
Tags: advice, entrepreneurs, startups
Gireendra Kasmalkar (Giri), whose testing startup VeriSoft was recently acquired by SQS, was interviewed for CSI Pune’s quarterly newsletter Desktalk. Some quotes from that interview that should be especially inspirational are reproduced here with permission. You should be able to download the the newsletter (containing the full article) from CSI Pune website’s download section. (It’s the July-Aug-Sept 2008 newsletter.)
About [...]
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Written by navin on October 8th, 2008 in In Depth 1 Comment
Tags: education, entrepreneurs, lists, startups
Earlier, we published a list of free web services that a company can use to better run their business. However, tools do not really make or break a company. Having the right attitude, and making the right decisions at the right time is much more important. If you are a startup founder, it is not [...]
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Written by navin on September 25th, 2008 in In Depth, Interview 13 Comments
Tags: entrepreneurs, Interview, outsourcing, startups
Nashik based StartupForStartups (SFS) is marketing itself as a “facility to help early stage companies with limited resources to build first cut of the product (V0.5/V1.0)”. Founder Sushrut Bidwai is a regular fixture at Pune startup events, and is trying to convince Pune-based startups to outsource work to his programmers in Nashik, promising that it [...]
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Written by navin on September 9th, 2008 in In Depth No Comments
Tags: analysis, google, SEO, tips
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(In this interesting article, Trevas of Druvaa uses keyword search trending data from Google Insights and Google Labs Experimental Search to fine-tune his idea of what exactly is the market niche into which his products are most likely to have a demand.
While search term analysis is a very common [...]
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Written by navin on September 2nd, 2008 in In Depth, Technology 10 Comments
Tags: consolidation, data-center, enterprises, server, virtualization
Virtualization is fast emerging as a game-changing technology in the enterprise computing space. What was once viewed as a technology useful for testing and development is going mainstream and is affecting the entire data-center ecosystem. This article on the important use-cases of server virtualization by Milind Borate, is the second in PuneTech’s series of articles [...]
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