Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• Oracle Acquiring Utility-Analytics Firm DataRaker

  Oracle plans on acquiring DataRaker, builder of a cloud-based analytics platform for electric, gas, and water utilities. Oracle plans on combining DataRaker’s technology with its own Oracle Utili…
• Yahoo’s Flickr Steps into Instagram, Twitter Photo Battle

  [caption id="attachment_6510" align="aligncenter" width="548"] When you really need to add a dash of pretension to your cat photos, you can't go wrong with a filter.[/caption] Now this is just ge…
• Facebook Assists FBI in Botnet Takedown

  Facebook apparently helped the FBI take down a massive botnet, according to the agency. The Butterfly Botnet, which linked together some 11 million compromised PCs, involved malicious folks from…
• Gmail, Chrome Outage Highlights Dangers of Shared Infrastructure

  [caption id="attachment_6474" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Google's Apps Status Dashboard.[/caption] By this point, pretty much everyone who spends time online is used to the occasional email…
• A Word on Automated Discovery and Security Credentials

  The discovery and mapping of IT infrastructure components to a business service is a lot like forensics. The latter is defined as “the application of a broad spectrum of sciences and technologies…
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  Adobe Adds Collaboration to Creative Cloud

  Adobe is layering more collaboration features into its Creative Cloud platform, an online hub of design and Web-publishing tools. Those collaboration features allow for management of virtual work…
• Google Apps for Business No Longer Free

  [caption id="attachment_6402" align="aligncenter" width="608"] Like Google's business apps? From now on, it'll cost ya.[/caption] Any businesses that rely on the free version of Google Apps for d…
• IBM SmartCloud Offers Productivity Tools, Social

  [caption id="attachment_6370" align="aligncenter" width="618"] IBM SmartCloud Docs' document-editing tool.[/caption] Not to be outdone in the cloud-storage space by Google and its ilk, IBM is rel…
• SoftLayer, 10gen Unite on MongoDB Service

  SoftLayer Technologies and 10gen have paired on a set of on-demand MongoDB production-class systems, which will sit atop SoftLayer’s cloud. The systems include integrated monitoring and support,…
• Watch Out Facebook? Google+ Claims 135 Million Active Users

  [caption id="attachment_6361" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Google+: not a total ghost town, apparently.[/caption] Google+ features 135 million users active in its stream, Google senior vice p…