Articles by Nick Kolakowski

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  Virtualization and Private Cloud: Important Tools and Terms

  Anyone setting out to implement virtualization and a private cloud will likely discover it involves a boatload of terminology and types of software. Sorting through all of it can be overwhelming—…
• Hadoop-MapReduce Primed for Big Growth Through 2016

  Worldwide revenues for Hadoop-MapReduce ecosystem software will rise to $812.8 million in 2016, predicted research firm IDC. That’s a significant uptick from 2011, when revenues approached $77 mi…
• Apple iPad Is Evolving the Business Intelligence Market

  [caption id="attachment_730" align="aligncenter" width="238" caption="Apple's iPad is helping make more B.I. tools handheld."] [/caption] The iPad has become a favorite device among consumers who…
• Cisco's Truviso Purchase: B.I. to Strengthen a Core Mission

  [caption id="attachment_656" align="aligncenter" width="418" caption="A Truviso white-label analytics dashboard."] [/caption] Cisco’s purchase of real-time analytics company Truviso is yet anothe…
• Predictive Analytics: Closing the Divide Between IT and Business

  There’s a lot of talk these days about the business value of predictive analytics and Big Data. But one of the biggest impacts might be on how IT is actually managed. IT organizations have long w…
• IBM Acquires Tealeaf, Continuing B.I. Buying Spree

  [caption id="attachment_640" align="aligncenter" width="618" caption="Tealeaf's software lets e-commerce workers analyze customer interactions on a granular level."] [/caption] IBM is continuing…
• Google's BigQuery Could Help Democratize Big Data

  [caption id="attachment_624" align="aligncenter" width="610" caption="Google's BigQuery: Making the banana stand more efficient than ever."] [/caption] Google’s BigQuery, rolled out to the genera…
• Pentaho Co-Founders Talk B.I., Open-Source Projects

  Pentaho’s open-source business intelligence (B.I.) software offers businesses a variety of functionality, ranging from data-mining and reporting to analytics services. SourceForge’s Rich Bowen re…
• IBM's Vivisimo Acquisition Speaks to Need to Wrangle Unstructured Data

  IBM’s acquisition of privately-held analytics firm Vivisimo, announced April 25, marks at an acceleration in Big Blue’s business-intelligence strategy. It’s an acceleration that’s needed, conside…
• Hewlett-Packard Kicks Off Big Cloud Drive

  [caption id="attachment_504" align="aligncenter" width="618" caption="HP's Converged Cloud is the company's latest cloud venture."][/caption] Hewlett-Packard’s latest cloud initiative seems tailo…