Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• Amazon Rolling Out Micro Instances for Amazon RDS for MySQL Database

  [caption id="attachment_1637" align="aligncenter" width="618" caption="Amazon's massive server farms will now backstop your tiny little game nobody downloaded."] [/caption] Amazon is rolling out…
• Hortonworks Data Platform 1.0 Targets Enterprises

  Hortonworks has unveiled Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) 1.0, an open-source platform built on Apache Hadoop 1.0 that includes data-management, monitoring, metadata and data-integration features.…
• Karmasphere, Datameer Platforms Emphasize Hadoop Interest

  Datameer isn’t the only company with an updated set of tools designed to bring Hadoop to the business masses: Karmasphere announced a new version of its eponymous Big Data platform June 11, with…
• Datameer 2.0 Makes Hadoop a Desktop Tool

  Ever since “Big Data” and “data analytics” started gaining momentum as corporate buzzwords, companies have sought ways to unlock massive stores of in-house data. But hiring data analysts and othe…
• Microsoft’s Azure, Windows Server 2012 Push Cloud Infrastructure

  [caption id="attachment_1814" align="aligncenter" width="579" caption="Windows Azure lets IT pros create Windows Server virtual machines in the cloud."] [/caption] For some time, Microsoft has pu…
• Microsoft Pushing Intune, Azure, Windows Server 2012 at TechEd

  [caption id="attachment_1594" align="aligncenter" width="618" caption="Microsoft already uses Windows Server 2012 to help power Bing.com."] [/caption] Microsoft is kicking off its 20th TechEd Nor…
• Apple’s WWDC Will Bring iCloud, iOS Updates: Rumors

  Google executive Andy Rubin Tweeted late Sunday night that some 900,000 Android devices are being activated each day. The timing of that "Look How Well We're Doing!" Tweet is particularly auspici…
• Windows Azure Walks Linux, Microsoft Line

  [caption id="attachment_1549" align="aligncenter" width="618" caption="Microsoft executive Scott Guthrie walks the keynote audience through Windows Azure's new features."] [/caption] Microsoft is…
• Oracle CEO Larry Ellison Talks Oracle Cloud

  Oracle CEO Larry Ellison took to the stage June 6 to detail Oracle Cloud, a platform he described as seven years in the making, built at considerable expense in cash and engineering hours. Oracle…
• Google Buys Meebo, Seeking to Boost Google Plus

  [caption id="attachment_1452" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Will Meebo boost Google Plus engagement?"] [/caption] Google plans on purchasing Meebo, a vendor of social-networking tools…