Join us for this free webinar where our rock star, Angelo Rajadurai, will share tips and tricks for tuning your storage system for database workloads. Specifically, this webinar will address the following:
- some of the performance issues we face today, and will provide some practical advice to easily incorporate these new technologies into your database storage tier
- Sun's ZFS and Unified Storage platforms
- practical steps for creating and tuning a hybrid storage solution that meets your data storage demands for a database workload
And you'll be able to ask lots of questions live to Angelo and other Sun experts!
Date: Wednesday, August 26
Time: 8:00 am PDT / 11:00 pm EDT / 4:00 pm UK / 5:00 pm CEST / 8:30 pm India (New Delhi) (check my timezone)
- This startup born from Cross-Tab has built a comprehensive metering tool for mobile devices to track real-time consumer behavior on mobile devices & capture the data derive intelligence for their clients to target various segments of users effectively for various reasons.The
Informate meter provides actual mobile usage data on a regular basisThe Informate report
presents insights and competitive information enabling their clients to plan competitive strategies. The technology that they've come up could prove highly marketable if they strategize to be more product than service oriented. So far they are thinking market research services & surveys rather than see the fantastic opportunity that their mobile app could open up for them if they were to productize & sell it than use it to provide market data. This one was rather cool !
- They provide free SMS services to their subscribers & also have a mobile application to do this. We did perceive them to be one more among the many already existing in the market but their technology, geographic spread & 4 million user base did catch lots of eyeballs.In 2008, they were on Deloitte's list of top 50 fastest growing technology companies in India. Incredible achievements given they are approximately 2 years old. They also appear to clock super high response times like under 3 seconds where user experience with other providers of similar services has shown that sometimes the message never gets sent or the delay is as long as 7 hours! Good stuff this.
- Online stream TV with 24+ channels & quick successes in a short while define Nautanki's claim to fame. Founded in 2006 here's what they say "Nautanki.tv brings together a large selection of videos from more than
100 content providers, including Fashion TV, Zoom, BollywoodHungama,
Channel V, and more. Users can choose from more than 300 current
primetime TV hits which have been reformatted to suit the internet and
mobile viewing experience. The TV users can create their dedicated
channels and choose their own schedules to present an online version of
their shows. Content creators and film makers can choose to participate
in any of the Nautanki.tv owned channels and gain access to the growing
number of users and audience across the world. The content creators get
paid a share of the revenue generated via advertising on their content." They have widgets of their application available to embed/link of off user websites that has a full selection of the channels available with them.
was not really comparable to what we saw in the Headstart 2009 January event from the perspective of scale, the discussions & the number & kinds of participating startups. However, the event did serve as a reasonable dipstick to find out about the latest in the startup space and a sort of in on a reasonably new part of the startup geography in India, Mumbai. While, Mumbai is a commercial capital & is home to some of the best technology companies in India like Indiagames, Directi & iFlex, the turnout at the event appeared to be an inadequate & rather non-representative sampling of this market.
a seed stage startup based out of Mumbai, truly has a chance to crack the Indian market as the only used car appraisal company in India. In that sense they do have a strong edge as a first mover. While they started out as a volume business, they are now running into issues of establishing themselves as a value added service for a used car buyers' market. The resonating opinion around the room from VCs/other startups & myself was that these certification & appraisal services typically scale well & help vendors establish credibility more quickly if positioned & tied up with sellers. Anyway, VeriCar I suppose will learn along the way & they appear to have strong preference to position their services in a buyers' market. There was some good input for them from the panel & a very learned audience. Anyway, the scope of this market is significantly out of my league to evince further comment.
another seed stage startup out of Mumbai, attracted a lot of attention because it came across as a technology that would aid extremely easy building of websites. Their demo conveyed the ease of use but what we saw & their own positioning of their application alongside the LAMP, J2EE, Joomla or Drupal, left us sort of unconvinced. There is apparently no stack that get created in the backend, they don't appear to provision a database in the backend & yet appear to provide CMS capabilities but again position themselves as a website factory. They don't want to consider open-sourcing their application, they don't call it a tool where most folks confused them with IDE type capabilities. Its a desktop application deployed on the browser but positioned as a web-application - is this by virtue of deploying on the browser or by virtue of truly providing it as a hosted service available over the internet ? Still confused & seeing if I can figure them out. If they truly come out comparable to a stack or platform like a Drupal - then they're indeed ahead of the game & could easily drive a lot of developers to adopt their tool again if only they could clarify their product better. One of the panelists recommended they evolve themselves as a web IDE for OpenSocial app developers. Good idea I would still ask them to see