Coraid CEO aims to disrupt cloud storage market

Jon Fortt of Fortune interviews Kevin Brown, CEO of Coraid, about his startup's approach to storage for the cloud computing era.
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Startup with all-star backers aims to disrupt storage market

Coraid founder Brantley Coile has a history of developing game-changing enterprise technology. Photo: Coraid.

Picture this: A brilliant engineer in a Georgia college town invents a cheaper way to do high-end storage. For nearly five years he and a small team quietly sell systems to demanding customers like the Nathional Institues of Health, which uses the technology for the Human Genome Project.

Eventually he realizes he can't run the company on a MORE

50 tablets detected on Apple campus

An analytics firm spots users in Cupertino testing a dozen different types of software

Using embedded code that reports hardware, software and GPS location characteristics, Flurry Analytics has detected approximately 50 devices that fit the description of the tablet computers Apple (AAPL) is expected to unveil on Wednesday.

Unlike other Apple prototype devices detected by Flurry's data-gathering code, these test units never leave the Cupertino campus -- consistent with the high-level of MORE

Davos: Unbiased, unalloyed, undaunted. (Well, maybe a little daunted.)

A "Davos virgin" speculates about the World Economic Forum.

I head to Europe this week to attend the World Economic Forum annual meeting, better known by the name of Swiss town in which it is held, Davos. I am a Davos virgin, so I intend to see the conference through the eyes of the newcomer that I am and to  drink up its global celebrities, big thinkers and attendant hangers on MORE

Another opening, another crowd

This one for Apple's (AAPL) first retail store in Frankfurt, Germany

Thanks to reader Ron in Palo Alto, Calif., for the link and tommyde in Frankfurt for the camera work.

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Why AAPL dropped 10.32 points Friday

Apple got whacked for no good reason in advance of Monday's earnings report

Click to enlarge. Source: AAPL Sanity's sepod

I don't pretend to understand much about how derivatives work or what hedge fund managers do, but I've been watching the ups and downs of Apple's (AAPL) stock price long enough to recognize a pattern when I see it.

This one was a classic slingshot, described succinctly by Jason Schwarz in his MORE

Apple's earnings: What the analysts say (Q1 2010)

Act One of next week's two-part Apple extravaganza begins Monday after the markets close

Ignore for a moment, if you can, the clamor and hype surrounding next Wednesday's special event and the new tablet computer Steve Jobs is expected to reveal.

Wednesday is the second act of a two-part performance that Apple (AAPL) has stage managed for Wall Street next week.

Act One starts Monday after the markets close, when the company reveals MORE

The office copier turns the big 5-0!

Lessons from one of the earliest information technologies.

Long before digital tools such as listservs, e-mail blasts, and even Facebook enabled us to easily broadcast messages, photocopies were the most efficient way to distribute information to groups of all sizes.

If the boss needed to discuss a new company policy, workers got memos in their (physical) in-boxes or slipped under their office doors. Community newsletters, fliers for parties, and the oft-maligned Christmas MORE

Thomas Edison would have loved cloud computing

A modest attempt to clarify the cloud.

By Ryan Nichols, Head of Cloudsourcing and Cloud Strategy for Appirio

Nichols compares cloud computing to utilities. Photo: Appirio.

It's time to bring a little clarity to the concept of "cloud computing," perhaps the most important, but least understood, technology trend of 2010.

To understand the future of technology, sometimes you have to look to the past. So let's go back to this history of electricity, MORE

Android tops iPhone 7 to 1 in free wallpaper and ringtone downloads

Hip-hop/R&B dominate the sound of Android devices; iPhone users like a little more rock

Click to enlarge. Source: Myxer's Boombox report

Here's an interesting peek into the world of free Web-based mobile phone downloads.

It comes from Myxer, a Florida-based website that claims one of the Internet's largest catalogs of free ringtones, wallpapers, videos, applications and games.

In its inaugural report on the behavior of its 30 million users, Myxer's Boombox Report compares MORE