Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• How “Anchoring” Impacts IT Assessment of Cloud Computing

  Several months ago, Bob Lewis (ITCatalysts.com, @ITCatalysts) recommended reading Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. This is a fascinating book about how people make decisions, and it in…
• HP’s Converged Cloud Portfolio Expands to VMware vCloud

  Hewlett-Packard is using this week’s VMworld conference to announce new HP Converged Cloud support for VMware’s vCloud Suite 5.1. The HP Converged Cloud unites HP Converged Infrastructure, HP Con…
• IBM’s zEnterprise EC12 Mainframe Server Boosts Analytics, Cloud

  [caption id="attachment_3973" align="aligncenter" width="498"] IBM's newly announced zEnterprise EC12 mainframe server.[/caption] IBM is upping its game in enterprise analytics with the newly ann…
• IBM Acquiring Kenexa for $1.3 Billion

  IBM has announced plans to acquire Kenexa, a recruitment and talent-management firm, for approximately $1.3 billion. Kenexa offers a portfolio of cloud-based services, including performance manag…
• Apple Readying iPad Mini for October: Report

  [caption id="attachment_3962" align="aligncenter" width="500"] The iPad Mini: Just like the regular iPad, apparently, only smaller.[/caption] Apple will rely the unveiling of its upcoming “iPad M…
• Dropbox Two-Factor Authentication: A Work In Progress

  The good news: Dropbox is introducing two-factor authentication, which could harden users’ cloud-storage accounts from outside attackers. The bad news: At least for the moment, it’s still in the…
• Facebook’s Project Prism, Corona Could Ease Data Crunch

  When it comes to the information Facebook keeps in-house about its users, the term “Big Data” seems like something of an understatement: processing more than 500 terabytes of data a day, divided…
• HP Executives Indicate Autonomy Big Data Division Needs Tweaking

  [caption id="attachment_3867" align="aligncenter" width="404"] HP's PC-manufacturing arm incurred revenue losses, while software managed to gain.[/caption] Amid the losses racked up by Hewlett-Pa…
• FCC Report: Many Americans Still Lack Broadband Access

  Roughly 19 million Americans lack access to broadband, according to the Federal Communications Commission’s Eighth Broadband Progress Report. Thanks to Section 706 of the Telecommunications Act o…
• Smartphone Data Security Lax for Many Workers: iPass Survey

  The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) phenomenon might lower costs for IT departments no longer forced to equip employees with the latest smartphones, but a new study suggests it’s placing corporate d…