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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.
Jon Fortt - Jan 25, 2010 9:00 AM ET
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Startup with all-star backers aims to disrupt storage market
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 shoestring anymore and calls an old friend, who consults a legendary investor, who assembles MORE
Jon Fortt - Jan 25, 2010 7:00 AM ETPosted in: AoE, Audrey MacLean, Brantley Coile, Charles Giancarlo, Cisco, cloud computing, Coraid, Dell, EMC, FCoE, HP, iSCSI, Kevin Brown, Mark Leslie, Microsoft, NetApp, NIH, SAN, Storage, virtualization -
Connected Interview: HP CEO Mark Hurd
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Adam Lashinsky, Sr. Editor at Large - Jan 20, 2010 10:26 AM ETPosted in: Adam Lashinsky, Apple, Cisco, Dell, HP, IBM, iPhone, iPod tablet, iPod touch, Macintosh, Mark Hurd, Mobile Computing, PCs, Phones, Tablets -
Cisco's goal: a real-time YouTube for business
Tony Bates isn't just an online video fanatic when he's on the clock. The Cisco (CSCO) executive also served on the board of YouTube in his spare time, before Google (GOOG) bought it in 2006. When I sat down with Bates in his office recently, the veteran of Cisco's service provider and enterprise units talked about how he ended up advising YouTube and why he believes video is the next MORE
Jon Fortt - Jan 19, 2010 7:00 AM ET -
(Screen) size does matter
The Jumbotron comes home --and the computer goes in the pocket.
Even before the recession began two years ago, people were talking about the need for Americans to downsize. What this means for the world of consumer electronics is unclear.
Our television screens just keep getting bigger and better. In 2009, the average screen size was 36 inches, up from 22 inches a decade ago.
For LCD and plasma screens greater than 60 MORE
Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Jan 15, 2010 6:00 AM ET -
Clash of the technology titans
The biggest computing and networking companies in the world are getting bigger - and former partners are now fierce rivals. Is tech's new strife good for customers?
The largest technology companies in the world are at war.
Sure, the executives who run Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Oracle, and others appear to play nice: Cisco touts the "regular dialogue" between its CEO, John Chambers, and IBM's chief executive, Sam Palmisano. Ann Livermore, an HP MORE
Jessi Hempel, writer - Jan 13, 2010 8:48 AM ET -
A dark horse emerges in web conferencing
With ownership of the SMB market, is Citrix Online a threat to Cisco?
Hoopla around Google Wave service, launched publicly in September, has brought resurgence to the idea of unified communications -- a single platform that integrates voice, email, fax (really!), chat, and web conferencing. Long a dream of the telecommunications industry, unified communications is gaining some buzz among corporate tech teams as a possible tool for enhancing employee productivity.
As tech MORE
Kim Thai, contributor - Dec 17, 2009 7:22 AM ET -
How does India's HCL compete with IBM?
Vineet Nayar, CEO of information technology company HCL talks about managing growth and taking on the big boys of tech.
Stephanie N. Mehta, Deputy Managing Editor - Dec 14, 2009 11:59 AM ET -
Cisco: we're a growth machine
Cisco has its swagger back.
When the networking provider hosted Wall Street analysts at its San Jose headquarters Tuesday for its annual update on the state of the business, the most striking thing was the full-scale return of confidence. After a year in which most of tech has struggled to regain its footing in a global financial crisis, CEO John Chambers and his lieutenants told the financial community that they're poised MORE
Jon Fortt - Dec 9, 2009 11:52 AM ET -
Tech giants that 'get' small business
Tech's top vendors see small companies as a big opportunity.
Software giant Microsoft (MSFT) tops a new ranking of technology companies effectively serving small businesses online by providing a rich, educational web experience for small companies.
Compass Intelligence, a Scottsdale, Ariz.-based consulting firm, analyzes the websites of dozens of tech companies - and interviews small business owners and executives - to come up with its rankings, which it publishes twice each year.
Microsoft leaped to the No. 1 ranking from No. 6 in the MORE
Stephanie N. Mehta, Deputy Managing Editor - Dec 8, 2009 6:45 AM ETPosted in: Apple, AT&T, Cisco, Compass Intelligence, Dell, HP, IBM, iPhone, Microsoft, Nortel, small business, Sprint Nextel, Symantec, Verizon
