Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• Hurricane Sandy Knocks Out Websites, Data Centers

  [caption id="attachment_5570" align="aligncenter" width="441"] Hurricane Sandy devastates the East Coast.[/caption] Hurricane Sandy barreled ashore Oct. 29 and devastated a wide swath of New Jers…
• Apple’s Scott Forstall Departure Tied to Ives Battle, iOS 6 Maps

  [caption id="attachment_5545" align="aligncenter" width="575"] Scott Forstall headed development of Apple's iOS.[/caption] Apple CEO Tim Cook is widely perceived as a quiet and courtly man, but h…
• Google Crisis Map Details Hurricane Sandy Path

  [caption id="attachment_5516" align="aligncenter" width="535"] Google Map showing Hurricane Sandy's projected path.[/caption] As Hurricane Sandy rumbles toward the East Coast, Google has decided…
• Google Rolls Out New Nexus Smartphones, Tablets

  [caption id="attachment_5535" align="aligncenter" width="547"] Photo Sphere, a new feature of Android 4.2 (which Google calls a new "flavor" of Jelly Bean).[/caption] Hurricane Sandy may have for…
• South Carolina Suffers Massive Data Breach

  South Carolina’s Department of Revenue’s computer system was hacked, resulting in the compromise of some 3.6 million Social Security numbers on top of nearly 400,000 credit and debit card numbers…
• Is Crowdsourcing the Future of Data Analytics?

  Organizations face a shortage of data analysts. That’s been the conclusion of several surveys and studies over the past few quarters, including a recent Gartner research note that concluded filli…
• The Future Needs More Data Analysts: Gartner

  A new research note from Gartner reinforces what studies and businesses have been saying for the past several quarters: the future will need a lot more people skilled in managing and analyzing da…
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  SAP Merges HANA In-Memory Tech, Hadoop

  Crunching massive amounts of data has evolved way past this point.[/caption] SAP is taking a new step into the Big Data game with a new analytics bundle based on its HANA in-memory database techn…
• Microsoft, Hortonworks Push Apache Hadoop for Azure, Windows Server

  In February 2012, Hortonworks announced it was working with Microsoft to streamline the use of Apache Hadoop in Windows Server environments. That collaboration resulted in a series of patches sub…
• Cloudera Impala Speeds Queries for HBase, HDFS Data

  [caption id="attachment_5411" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Cloudera Impala diagram.[/caption] Cloudera is using the Strata + Hadoop World event in New York City to unveil Impala, an Apache-li…