Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• Microsoft Launches Office 365 for Education

  [caption id="attachment_2105" align="aligncenter" width="415" caption="Microsoft hopes its Office 365 tools, including a collaboration platform, will appeal to schools."] [/caption] Microsoft’s O…
• Google’s Nexus 7 Aims to Take Android Edge from Amazon Kindle Fire

  Google’s Nexus 7, announced June 27 at the opening of the Google I/O conference, features a 7-inch screen (1280x800 resolution), a Tegra-3 chipset with a quad-core CPU and twelve-core GPU, built-…
• Database Administrators, Analysts See Salary Bump: Survey

  It pays to be a database administrator, according to Dr. Dobb’s 2012 Salary Survey. Business analysts, programmers/analysts, and systems analysts are also being paid more, on average, and they we…
• Apple Planning Nevada Data Center: Report

  [caption id="attachment_2071" align="aligncenter" width="541" caption="An image from inside Apple's North Carolina data center. The company is planning more data centers across the country, inclu…
• Debian and Ubuntu Lead Among Linux Distributions for File Servers

  Debian and Ubuntu have a healthy lead over Red Hat and CentOS among Linux distributions for file servers, according to a new survey of 100 SMBs (small and midsize businesses) conducted by cloud-s…
• Execs Confused Over “Big Data” Definition, But Want It Anyway: Survey

  A new survey by SAP suggests that nearly 76 percent of executives see “Big Data” as an opportunity. However, respondents’ definition of “Big Data” varied to a considerable degree. Nearly a quarte…
• Microsoft's Yammer Acquisition: $1.2 Billion Well Spent?

  [caption id="attachment_2023" align="aligncenter" width="618" caption="As demonstrated by this piece of marketing material, Microsoft is hoping that Yammer will boost its appeal with enterprise u…
• MemSQL Founders Talk NoSQL, Startups, Facebook

  [caption id="attachment_2010" align="aligncenter" width="585" caption="Speedy database analysis can mean the difference between profit and loss for some companies."] [/caption] NoSQL is undergoin…
• Google Nexus Tablet Specs Leak, But No Jelly Bean Details

  Rumors from the other side of the planet indicate that Google’s long-awaited flagship tablet, anticipated to debut this week at the company’s I/O 2012 conference, will feature a 7-inch screen, 1.…
• How eBay Turned to Alternative Fuels for Its Data Needs

  [caption id="attachment_1966" align="aligncenter" width="618" caption="A cutaway view of a Bloom Energy fuel cell."] [/caption] Big Data consumes Big Energy: the massive data centers that store a…