Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• Rackspace Launches OpenStack-Powered Private Cloud Software

  Rackspace has released a suite of OpenStack-powered Private Cloud Software, designed to simplify the setup of a private cloud environment. Nova, the OpenStack compute platform used for Rackspace’…
• Android Tablet Owners Driven by Cost: comScore

  Apple iPad owners selected their device mostly because of a robust apps ecosystem, while Android tablet and Kindle Fire purchasers were driven largely by their devices’ lower cost. Those are some…
• Nimbula, MapR Pair for Private Cloud Hadoop Solution

  Nimbula has paired with MapR Technologies on a turnkey solution for deploying a Hadoop cluster on a Nimbula Director-based cloud. The platform combines Nimbula Director, a private-cloud platform…
• IBM Wants RIM Enterprise Services Unit: Rumor

  [caption id="attachment_3412" align="aligncenter" width="500"] RIM hopes app development for the PlayBook tablet (above) will help build the BlackBerry 10 ecosystem.[/caption] IBM is interested i…
• Google’s Gmail Search Echoes Earlier Google Plus Effort

  [caption id="attachment_3392" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Google is testing whether users will respond to Gmail results surfacing in regular search.[/caption] Google is using its massive dat…
• Nokia Sells Qt Platform to Digia

  [caption id="attachment_3385" align="aligncenter" width="580"] Nokia has streamlined its business to focus on Microsoft's Windows Phone.[/caption] Nokia is selling the remainder of its Qt app-bui…
• VMware Acquires Log Insight Analytics Platform

  VMware has acquired the Log Insight analytics platform from Pattern Insight, a Mountain View, Calif., startup devoted to data mining and search. Both the software and team will join VMware. “Log…
• Acer Takes Issue With Microsoft’s Surface Tablets

  [caption id="attachment_3281" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Journalists check out Microsoft's Surface tablet at its debut earlier this summer.[/caption] Ever since Microsoft announced that it…
• Data Analysts Earn Hefty Paychecks: Survey

  [caption id="attachment_3311" align="aligncenter" width="500"] If you can crunch data like nobody's business, a giant pile of cash can be yours.[/caption] A data scientist might take home a hefty…
• Wozniak: The Cloud Spells Serious Trouble

  At least one Steve from Apple isn’t a big fan from the cloud. That would be Steve Wozniak, who recently told the audience after a Washington, D.C. performance of “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Ste…