Taking On Microsoft And Google From India: InstaColl Founders Sumanth Raghavendra, Kaushal Cavale, And Their Mentor Sabeer Bhatia (Part 4)

SM: Tell me more about the architecture underpinning your product. What enables you to do what you can now do in the browser? SR and KC: We explored many options. The first thing that came to mind were plug-ins. Even though the browser is popular for HTML, there are numerous plug-ins that make a supplemental

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Taking On Microsoft And Google From India: InstaColl Founders Sumanth Raghavendra, Kaushal Cavale, And Their Mentor Sabeer Bhatia (Part 3)

SM: Back to you, Sumanth and Kaushal. Once Sabeer became your mentor and your financing partner, how did the company’s strategy evolve? SR and KC: Up to that point we were very conservative because we did not have a lot of money. We had shut down our services group completely because it didn’t make strategic

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Taking On Microsoft And Google From India: InstaColl Founders Sumanth Raghavendra, Kaushal Cavale, And Their Mentor Sabeer Bhatia (Part 2)

SM: How large did you build your service business in terms of revenue? SR and KC: At the end of five years, we were well past $1 million in an annualized run rate. We had grown the team to just under 50 people. At that point, we realized that it was as good a time

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Taking On Microsoft And Google From India: InstaColl Founders Sumanth Raghavendra, Kaushal Cavale, And Their Mentor Sabeer Bhatia (Part 1)

Kaushal Cavale and Sumanth Raghavendra are childhood friends from Bangalore and the cofounders of InstaColl. After graduating from BMS College of Engineering and the University of Phoenix (Thunderbird), respectively, they worked in technical IT positions in the United States. They returned to India in 2000 to fulfill their dreams of starting a business. In 2005,

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Deal Radar 2010: MaxiScale

MaxiScale, a cloud-scale file serving and storage platform provider, was founded in 2007 by Gianluca Rattazzi and Francesco Lacapra. At that time, major cloud computing and Web companies were transitioning away from standard enterprise storage platforms to commodity hardware and smart software.

Intel vs. ARM: In the Smartphone Era (Part 3)

By Guest Author Nalini Kumar Muppala Software and OS As the adage goes, “Software sells hardware.” Apple probably knows this best, but Intel understands it as well. Intel acquired Wind River in an effort to spruce up its offerings outside of the PC market.

Intel vs. ARM: In the Smartphone Era (Part 2)

By Guest Author Nalini Kumar Muppala The landscape of computing is undergoing a fundamental change. Mobile computing is gaining ground at the expense of traditional desktop-based computing. Computers are no longer merely productivity tools; they are increasingly being used for communication, networking, and entertainment on the go. To be sure, powerful desktops will still be

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Deal Radar 2009: Surgient

Founded in 1999, Surgient develops virtualization automation and lab management software. The Austin, Texas-based company, which was previously known as Surgient Networks, entered the virtual lab automation market in mid-2004 and created an internal private cloud for which it was awarded a patent in 2005. Surgient’s ‘Virtual Automation Platform’ helps IT organizations to provide self-service

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