Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• CERN Testing Cloud for Crunching Universe's Secrets

  [caption id="attachment_10730" align="aligncenter" width="551"] In order to obtain results from its experiments, including those with the Large Hadron Collider, CERN writes its own research and a…
• Google Considering Android Gaming Console: Report

  [caption id="attachment_10694" align="aligncenter" width="618"] The Ouya console (which features games such as "ChronoBlade," shown here) is the first Android gaming platform on the market.[/capt…
• Microsoft Introduces New Azure Features at BUILD

  Windows Azure Mobile Services includes native SDKs for most major mobile platforms.[/caption] In conjunction with its BUILD conference this week in San Francisco, Microsoft has unveiled a handful…
• IBM’s BLU Acceleration Speeds Data Analytics

  [caption id="attachment_10642" align="aligncenter" width="500"] In-memory technology: Big Data's race-car?[/caption] IBM has added new technology to its DB2 database software, designed to make da…
• At BUILD, Microsoft Unveils More of Windows 8.1

  [caption id="attachment_10654" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Windows 8.1.[/caption] After months of hinting about the next big Windows upgrade, Microsoft used the first day of its BUILD develo…
• Defense IT Agency Wants to Build Huge Cloud

  The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) wants a private company to build a cloud for it, and it’s willing to pay up to $450 million to make that happen. (Hat tip to GigaOm for the link.) DI…
• Google Adds Malware Data to Transparency Report

  Google is adding data about malware to its Transparency Report. For the past seven years, the search-engine giant has offered a Safe Browsing program that warns Web-surfers about unsafe Websites…
• Netflix’s Open-Source Genie Made Public

  [caption id="attachment_10626" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Netflix's diagram of the core components of Genie.[/caption] Netflix has released its open-source Genie Hadoop-based Platform-as-a-…
• Oracle's New Partners Could Define Its Cloud Future

  [caption id="attachment_10603" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Oracle CEO Larry Ellison: "Remember all those rivals I used to trash? Well, um, let's just move past that."[/caption] Microsoft and…
• Harvard, IBM Crunch Data for More Efficient Solar Cells

  Harvard’s Clean Energy Project (CEP) is using IBM’s World Community Grid, a “virtual supercomputer” that leverages volunteers’ surplus computing power, to determine which organic carbon compounds…