Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• Cloudera Offers Search Platform for HDFS and HBase

  [caption id="attachment_10219" align="aligncenter" width="399"] Cloudera's distribution including Apache Hadoop, with Cloudera Search's position highlighted.[/caption] Cloudera has rolled out the…
• Salesforce Acquires ExactTarget for $2.5 Billion

  [caption id="attachment_10158" align="aligncenter" width="618"] ExactTarget allows companies to automate their marketing efforts.[/caption] Salesforce will acquire ExactTarget, which builds marke…
• IBM Makes IaaS Play with SoftLayer Acquisition

  IBM plans on acquiring SoftLayer Technologies, a massive cloud-computing infrastructure provider. Terms of the deal went undisclosed, but an unnamed source told The New York Times that Big Blue h…
• Microsoft Chopping Azure Prices to Better Compete in IaaS Realm

  [caption id="attachment_10139" align="aligncenter" width="588"] Microsoft wants to make its Virtual Machines a cheaper proposition.[/caption] In a bid to better compete with Amazon and other Infr…
• NSA Needs Geeks in Utah

  [caption id="attachment_10122" align="aligncenter" width="500"] If you can manage a data center while keeping quiet about it, the NSA might have a job for you.[/caption] Despite a job market for…
• IBM Focuses Its Data-Analytics Tools on Employee Retention

  IBM is rolling out a new data-analytics package designed to make workplaces more efficient and minimize the number of departing employees. The platform consolidates data from corporate surveys, p…
• Motorola Building SkyNet Smartphone

  [caption id="attachment_10092" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Motorola's Droid phones (accompanied by ultra-macho ad campaigns) earned the company some early buzz, but Samsung has become the do…
• Blimps, TV Airwaves Part of Google’s Plan to Spread the Web

  Pop quiz: how do you bring the Internet to underdeveloped parts of the world? The answer, in Google’s case, is with blimps. Yes, blimps—the same ones that float over football stadiums on game day…
• New iOS 7 Design “Black, White, and Flat”: Report

  [caption id="attachment_10126" align="aligncenter" width="493"] Ive will stare you down.[/caption] For anyone who owns an iPhone or iPad and plans on upgrading to iOS 7 when it finally rolls out…
• Walking the Galapagos with Google

  In the early days, Street View must have been a relatively easy project for Google to execute, considering the financial resources and employees at its disposal: strap a set of high-tech cameras…