Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• Microsoft, RIM Face Critical 2013: IDC

  [caption id="attachment_6242" align="aligncenter" width="580"] Microsoft is putting a lot of marketing effort behind Windows Phone 8.[/caption] Of all the companies competing for a piece of the m…
• GE Pitches "Industrial Internet" of Sensors, Analytics

  General Electric is pitching the “Industrial Internet,” which combines the latest in analytics tools and data-gathering sensors with old-school manufacturing. In a Nov. 26 report, GE outlined the…
• Why Microsoft's Surface Pro Could Fail

  Earlier this year, Microsoft whipped the curtain back from Surface, its latest attempt at radically altering the dynamics of the tablet market. In a radical change from its habits of past years,…
• HP, Autonomy’s Mike Lynch Trade Barbs

  Data analytics is normally a somewhat bloodless business: IT vendors build analytical software, which companies buy in order to crunch data. Occasionally a CEO like Oracle’s Larry Ellison will st…
• IBM Planning New Analytics Center in Ohio

  [caption id="attachment_6198" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Columbus, Ohio.[/caption] IBM plans on building a new analytics center in Columbus, Ohio. The facility, which will offer services an…
• Redshift: Amazon's Next Step in Conquering the Cloud

  In its continuing quest to conquer the business cloud, Genghis Khan-style, Amazon has announced a new data warehouse it calls Amazon Redshift. Amazon claims the petabyte-scale data warehouse serv…
• Businesses Replacing On-Premises Software with SaaS: Gartner

  Over the past several quarters, many a large IT vendor has offered a cloud-based option for one (or more) of its traditional products. Think Microsoft’s Office 365, for example, or even the Oracl…
• HP Boosts BSM With Analytics Features

  Despite the fallout of its recent Autonomy fiasco, Hewlett-Packard is evidently pushing ahead with its various analytics packages: the latest version of the HP Business Service Management (BSM) s…
• Autodesk’s Fusion 360 Takes Simulation Further into the Cloud

  [caption id="attachment_6123" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Before the real-world construction can begin, engineers need to engage in a little virtual-world simulation.[/caption] Autodesk is t…
• Google Touch-Screen Chromebook in the Works: Rumor

  [caption id="attachment_6106" align="aligncenter" width="564"] Chromebooks: Getting touchy-feely?[/caption] There are rumors going around that Google plans on launching one or more Chrome OS-powe…