Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• IBM Upgrades Big Data Security for Hadoop

  If analyzed properly, data can offer all sorts of insights into an organization’s workings. But handling that data also raises issues related to security and compliance. Hence IBM’s new data-secu…
• Global Smartphone Usage Hits 1 Billion

  [caption id="attachment_5292" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Thirty seconds later, this example of smartphone usage ended very, very badly.[/caption] It took sixteen years, but the number of sm…
• The Pirate Bay Sails Into The Cloud

  In a bid to repel boarders—so to speak—the BitTorrent Website The Pirate Bay is apparently moving to the cloud. “Now we've gotten rid of the servers. Slowly and steadily we are getting rid of our…
• Hewlett-Packard Pushes BPO Analytics Services

  Hewlett-Packard’s enterprise-services arm has introduced a suite of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) analytics services designed to help mine insight from the volumes of data flooding organizat…
• SAP Unveils HANA Cloud with Database-as-a-Service

  SAP has whipped the curtain back from SAP HANA Cloud, an attempt to take its in-memory database platform online. SAP HANA Cloud will include SAP HANA AppServices for creating applications through…
• Pinterest Analytics on the Rise

  [caption id="attachment_5190" align="aligncenter" width="572"] Pinalytics data-mines Pinterest for pins, boards, and people associated with inputted keywords; the results can be sorted by various…
• Tablets, Smartphones Pressuring PC Shipments: IDC

  Earlier this week, research firm IDC released a report capable of sending even the peppiest hardware manufacturer into the deepest funk: PC shipments declined some 8.6 percent year-over-year for…
• Hadoop Bandwagon Continues with SAS High-Performance Analytics Server

  The Hadoop bandwagon keeps rolling on: SAS announced earlier this week that its SAS High-Performance Analytics Server would rely on the popular data framework as part of its predictive modeling c…
• Linus Torvalds: Patents and Copyrights Problematic in Current Form

  The past few years have seen a gradual acceleration in the “Patent Wars” between Samsung, Apple, Microsoft, Nokia, Google, and other tech giants. Wielding massive intellectual-property portfolios…
• Mozilla Patching Firefox 16 After Security Issue

  Mozilla apparently plans to release a patched version of Firefox 16 on Oct. 11, a day after the organization said it was aware of a security issue with the new browser. That vulnerability doesn’t…