Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• Android Loses Out to iOS in Q2: Strategy Analytics

  Just as Apple and Samsung head into a California courtroom for a patent-infringement trial that could have massive repercussions on the iOS-versus-Android battle, a new report by Strategy Analyti…
• HP, Cloudera Team Up on Hadoop

  Hewlett-Packard and data-analytics company Cloudera will release a platform in the fourth quarter of 2012 that bundles Cloudera’s enterprise software with the HP AppSystem for Apache Hadoop. That…
• Google Fiber Service Could Prove a Risky Bet

  [caption id="attachment_2939" align="aligncenter" width="617"] A screenshot from Google's video explaining Google Fiber.[/caption] Google whipped the curtain back from its ultra-fast broadband se…
• Azure, Google Talk, Twitter Outages Illustrate Data Downtime Issues

  [caption id="attachment_2924" align="aligncenter" width="500"] "Man, now I'll have to do actual work instead of Tweeting."[/caption] It was a day of outages for some of the biggest brands in data…
• Smartphone Uptake Could Challenge Developers, Cloud Services

  More Americans are switching to smartphones, according to a new study from analytics firm comScore. Some 47.5 percent of the feature-phone subscribers who switched to a new device in April 2012 c…
• Oracle’s Exalogic Software 2.0 Offers Virtualization Muscle

  Oracle has unveiled its Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software 2.0, with new features designed to further streamline IT administrators’ cloud management. Oracle’s Exalogic Elastic Cloud is an integrated…
• Google’s Cloud Platform Partner Program Could Benefit Analytics Firms

  [caption id="attachment_2883" align="aligncenter" width="418"] Google's BigQuery is a part of its Cloud Platform Partner Program.[/caption] Google has become the latest IT vendor to offer its inf…
• Oracle Targets Microsoft with MySQL Migration Tool

  [caption id="attachment_2890" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Oracle versus Microsoft is just one chess-game being played between companies in the software space.[/caption] Oracle wants a piece…
• Apple’s OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Will Face Windows 8

  [caption id="attachment_2871" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Apple's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.[/caption] Apple’s OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, the latest version of the company’s Mac operating system…
• Apple iCloud, Amazon Cloud Top Developer List: Appcelerator, IDC

  A new survey by Appcelerator and research firm IDC suggests that developers continue to embrace the cloud as an essential component in mobile apps for the enterprise, both in terms of user featur…