Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• GoodData Targets Rising Interest in Customized Data Apps

  [caption id="attachment_4346" align="aligncenter" width="618"] GoodData claims various combinations of "Bashes" can provide new, actionable insight into a company's data.[/caption] Business-intel…
• Autodesk Simulation 360 Arrives on the Cloud

  [caption id="attachment_4330" align="aligncenter" width="583"] Autodesk Simulation 360's capabilities include running what-if scenarios in parallel and assessing stresses and loads on virtual bui…
• GoDaddy Outage an Attack, Hackers Claim

  GoDaddy is apparently experiencing a severe outage, taking down Websites hosted by the provider. Hackers associated with Anonymous are claiming responsibility for the situation, although the actu…
• SAP Migrating EPM to HANA-Powered Cloud

  [caption id="attachment_4305" align="aligncenter" width="550"] SAP's EPM OnDemand is starting off with three applications in the cloud.[/caption] SAP has announced a cloud-based version of Enterp…
• Data Visualization Requires More Care from CIOs: Analyst

  [caption id="attachment_4300" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Data visualization is evolving way past simple graphs.[/caption] Data visualization is more than pretty graphs to illustrate a Power…
• EMC Partnering with Alpine Data Labs on Predictive Analytics

  EMC has announced a partnership with Alpine Data Labs that will see the latter’s predictive-analytics application integrated with EMC’s Greenplum analytics platform. On a more granular level, tha…
• Pogoplug Uses Amazon Glacier for Backup

  [caption id="attachment_4225" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Amazon's Glacier provides low-cost storage for massive amounts of data, but retrieval times are slow.[/caption] Amazon’s Glacier sto…
• Windows Server 2012 is Microsoft’s Cloud Strategy Writ Large

  [caption id="attachment_4205" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Windows Server 2012 expands Hyper-V support.[/caption] Microsoft’s Windows Server 2012, which just reached its general availability…
• Nokia Introduces Lumia 920, 820 Windows Phone 8 Smartphones

  [caption id="attachment_4165" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Nokia executive vice president Jo Harlow shows off the Lumia 920 to the media and analysts.[/caption] Microsoft and Nokia whipped th…
• Countly Developer Talks Mobile Analytics, Open Source

  The Countly project provides analytics tools for mobile applications. SourceForge’s Rich Bowen recently interviewed Onur Alp Soner (Countly’s lead developer) about building Countly, and how commu…