Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• 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…
• Oracle Alliances May Be First Sign of Major Shift

  [caption id="attachment_10580" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Oracle typically makes a show of force at conventions, but its earnings might hinge on more radical maneuvers.[/caption] Oracle rel…
• Sqrrl's New Analytics Platform Based on NSA Tech

  [caption id="attachment_10564" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Sqrrl's cartoon squirrel promotes the firm's use of Accumulo.[/caption] Database-software startup Sqrrl released version 1.1 of its…
• GE Bringing Hadoop to 'Industrial Internet'

  [caption id="attachment_10545" align="aligncenter" width="500"] What does Hadoop have to do with a factory line? A lot, if GE has anything to say about it.[/caption] GE is entering the Apache Had…
• Google Reader’s Demise Could Benefit Startups

  [caption id="attachment_10503" align="aligncenter" width="607"] Based on this graphic posted on its corporate blog, Feedly is obviously happy to see Google Reader go.[/caption] Remember: Google R…