Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• Google Play Offering Private Apps Channel

  [caption id="attachment_6327" align="aligncenter" width="499"] Google Play Private Channel: internal app distribution for employees.[/caption] Google Play might soon prove a misnomer: the search…
• How Many Surface Tablets Has Microsoft Sold?

  It’s difficult to overstate the importance of the Surface tablet to Microsoft’s overall fortunes in the consumer realm. If the device proves a resounding success, it could give Microsoft the mome…
• EMC, VMware Creating New Cloud, Big Data Unit

  EMC and its VMware subsidiary are planning on grouping their collective data analytics and cloud applications into a separate entity, termed the Pivotal Initiative, headed by EMC chief strategy o…
• VMware Rolls Out New Cloud Management Tools

  [caption id="attachment_6254" align="aligncenter" width="600"] VMware is pushing tools for cloud automation and management.[/caption] VMware has announced general availability of its vCenter Oper…
• 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…