Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• Big Data Is a Relative Term: Forrester Analyst

  The term “Big Data” is tossed around with considerable aplomb by analysts, pundits and businesses—but what does it actually mean? How can a business determine if its data infrastructure is “big”…
• Supply Chains: The Next Killer Application in the Cloud

  [caption id="attachment_1004" align="aligncenter" width="518" caption="The cloud can help your packages move more efficiently from Point A to B."] [/caption] Supply-chain software is likely the c…
• SAP Pushing HANA, Visual Intelligence at Sapphire Now

  [caption id="attachment_999" align="aligncenter" width="618" caption="SAP is betting big that you want those results delivered in the next 0.0001 second."] [/caption] SAP is using the week’s Sapp…
• Actuate, Hortonworks Ally for Big Data Crunching

  [caption id="attachment_975" align="aligncenter" width="518" caption="It'll still be years before B.I. data visualization looks like something from 'Minority Report.' But we can dream."] [/captio…
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  IT Pros Adopting B.I. in Larger Numbers: Informatica Survey

  The growing size of transaction volumes, the rise of new technologies (including Hadoop and NoSQL) for processing mountains of data, and the rise of social media and mobile devices as reservoirs…
• Hadapt, Cloudera Join Forces on Hadoop-Based Software

  Hadapt and Cloudera, two companies specializing in B.I. software that relies heavily on Apache Hadoop, have joined forces to integrate their respective products. Specifically, that means Hadapt w…
• HP’s Public Cloud Services Relying on OpenStack to Tackle Rivals

  Hewlett-Packard’s public cloud services are starting to become available as a public beta. HP Cloud Compute, HP Cloud Object Storage and HP Cloud Content Delivery Network are the first services a…
• SAP Insights Now Available for Public Safety Officials

  [caption id="attachment_867" align="aligncenter" width="434" caption="SAP is aiming to make its products more mobile and rapidly deployable."] [/caption] The terms “Big Data” and “analytics” usua…
• Using WebDAV to Simplify Backup and Recovery in the Cloud

  [caption id="attachment_847" align="aligncenter" width="518" caption="Cloud storage or local disk drive? That's the question."] [/caption] The trouble with cloud storage in general, and backup an…
• Lucid Imagination Drilling Down into 'Dark' Data

  [caption id="attachment_829" align="aligncenter" width="618" caption="Lucid Imagination's B.I. products take aim at structured and unstructured data."] [/caption] Analysts insist that the amount…