Articles by Nick Kolakowski
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The 787 Dreamliner Scenario: How Data Can Solve Epic Messes
Following reports of battery failures onboard Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued an “emergency airworthiness directive” temporarily grounding the airlin… -
Microsoft Positions System Center 2012 SP1 as Ultimate Backend Manager
Microsoft’s System Center 2012 Service Pack 1, released this week, is the company’s latest attempt to influence the increasingly heterogeneous world of data-center infrastructure. In a January 15… -
ObjectRocket Launches Speedy MongoDB Cloud Service
MongoDB, a document-oriented NoSQL database system, has become increasingly popular among IT pros needing to store and analyze massive amounts of data. So it’s no surprise that more IT vendors ar… -
Optum Labs Will Leverage Clinical Big Data for Patient Care
Health-care technology firm Optum and the Mayo Clinic are launching a new venture, Optum Labs, which will leverage massive clinical and claims datasets to improve patient care. At least in theory… -
LinkedIn, Google, Others Threatened by Facebook’s Graph Search
Since its inception, Facebook has managed to accumulate an extraordinary amount of social data, with its billion subscribers contributing some 240 billion photos and a trillion connections to the… -
EMC Combines Cloud and On-Premise Data Storage
In a bid to fend off competitors offering all manner of storage products, EMC is trying to be all things to all customers, combining its Syncplicity cloud service with its Isilon and Atmos platfo… -
Oracle Rolls Out IaaS for Private Cloud
Oracle is rolling out its version of an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform, which asks clients to deploy hardware in-house and use it to generate a private cloud behind a firewall. Oracl… -
The Hunt for Red October
Kaspersky Lab researchers claim to have uncovered what they describe as a “high-level cyber-espionage campaign” that has infiltrated networks at diplomatic, governmental and scientific research o… -
RAND: Health Care Providers Failing to Adopt E-Records
Back in 2005, RAND Corporation published an analysis suggesting that hospitals and other health-care facilities could save more than $81 billion a year by adopting electronic health records. Seve… -
Netflix Details ‘Genie,’ Its Hadoop Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
When it comes to wrestling with massive amounts of data, Netflix isn’t a unique company: Facebook, Google, Amazon, and other Internet giants also face a flood of petabytes into their datacenters.…