Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• 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…
• Windows 7 Has Overtaken XP, But Does It Matter?

  [caption id="attachment_4137" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Windows 7 may have overtaken Windows XP, but the battle-lines between Microsoft and its rivals has shifted more and more to mobility…
• Alleged Apple UDID Hack Raises Potential Privacy Questions for FBI

  It could turn out to be a very bad week for Apple and the FBI. On Sept. 4, news began to circulate around the Web that hackers associated with AntiSec had stolen more than 12 million Apple Unique…
• Data-Mine Your Own Facebook Data with Wolfram Alpha

  [caption id="attachment_4082" align="aligncenter" width="560"] Now you can scan your own Facebook data for all sorts of insights (and nifty graphs).[/caption] Ever wanted to mine your own Faceboo…
• IBM's Predictive Analytics, Apps Power US Open

  [caption id="attachment_4043" align="aligncenter" width="618"] IBM's tennis-centric analytics at work.[/caption] IBM plans on using the 2012 US Open tennis tournament to show off its prowess in e…