Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• 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…
• Can Nokia Save Itself?

  [caption id="attachment_5392" align="aligncenter" width="396"] Nokia's Lumia 920: last gasp, or the beginning of a turnaround?[/caption] Sometimes, a long jump from a burning platform doesn’t end…
• Windows RT vs. Windows 8 Could Burn Consumers

  Earlier this week, Microsoft made its upcoming Surface tablet available for pre-order. The 10.6-inch device, which runs the next version of Windows and features a flexible keyboard cover, will co…
• Companies Want Platform-as-a-Service: IBM

  Earlier this week, IBM released a study showing that 49 percent of IT decision makers see Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) as strategically important. Roughly 20 percent of the 1,500 respondents actu…
• AOL’s Alto Is an Advanced Email Platform, But Can It Earn Buzz?

  Once the reigning champ of the dial-up age, AOL has struggled in recent years to evolve into a Web property capable of competing on equal footing with Google and Yahoo. As part of that evolution,…
• Teradata Launches Aster Big Analytics Appliance

  Teradata has announced the Aster Big Analytics Appliance, which combines open-source Apache Hadoop with Teradata Aster, an analytic platform that combines the SQL-MapReduce framework with data st…
• Google’s New Chromebooks Ready to Battle Windows 8, Tablets

  Much of the tech world’s attention this month is focused on two tablets: Microsoft’s Surface tablets running Windows 8, which just became available for pre-order, and Apple’s much-rumored iPad Mi…