Eric Lundquist

The technology portfolio in companies is dividing between traditional, reliable and structured systems and newer, agile, fix-it-on-the-fly components. Traditional technology vendors, and VMware in particular during the 2014 session of its VMworld show, are eagerly trying to show that they can build bridges between the two worlds. However, building bridges requires more than simply dropping […]

Not too much slack time this summer in the tech world. Development in the tech industry continues to roil the business world and vice versa. These five events strike me as some of the big deals as Labor Day and the end of summer fun starts to loom. Media, cloud computing, smartphones, the Internet of […]

Corporate computing has changed significantly. Instead of buying boxes, users now can rent time from Amazon, Microsoft, Digital Ocean or from any number of other cloud service providers. The devices used for corporate computing have gone mobile and shrunk to palm size. However, while the computers have moved to the cloud and the devices have […]

Digital security is much in the news this week as the annual Black Hat and DefCon events convene in Las Vegas. New hacks, new ways to stop hacks and new ways to attempt secure communications and user authentication will all be intensely discussed. Also, the massive leak by former government contractor Edward Snowden of National […]

Add two more Vs to the volume, velocity, variety bywords of big data. Speaking at the eighth annual Massachusetts Institute of Technology Chief Data Officer and Information Quality Symposium, Stuart Madnick told the audience to include value and veracity when considering how to best implement big data projects in their companies. “There is something big […]

The day that eMarketer predicted that mobile ad spending will surpass newspaper and radio ad revenues in 2014 seemed a particularly good time to catch up with the MassTLC’s (Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council) Mobile Summit in Cambridge, Mass. The eMarketer predictions were carried in the Wall Street Journal. The bottom line as carried in the […]

While long-form journalism faces an uncertain future, long-form corporate memo writing is alive and growing. Consider the 3,000-word memo from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. In an era of multimedia, 128-character tweets and 12-second video micro messages, cranking out a long, four-part mega memo of words interspersed with a couple of happy employee photos and simple […]

The concept of using cloud computing to replace or augment your IT infrastructure is still relatively new. The introduction of Amazon Web Services in 2006 is a good date to pick as a starting point for this trend. We are now halfway through 2014 and Google, IBM, HP and the OpenStack gang have had their […]

Market disruption led by technology innovation is a mantra repeated with religious fervor among the techies and the venture capitalists of Silicon Valley. With the right business plan, bravado and technology underpinnings you can turn your spare room into a hotel (AirBnB), your car into a cab (Uber) and your Internet service into a movie […]

Google glass, robots, driverless cars and Internet satellites were among the Google wow products that weren’t mentioned during the keynote address at Google I/O. While a wowless keynote draws a media yawn, the company’s emphasis on the business at hand made good sense. At the keynote and accompanying sessions, the Googlers outlined a “big tent” […]

Google’s big tent strategy was in clear evidence this week at the Google I/O developers conference. The company with roots in linking ads to Internet searches now wants to own your wrist, your auto, your television and your whereabouts as you travel along in the Google cloud. The big tech tent outlined by keynoter and […]

Facebook has been busy not just in finding more ways for everyone in the world to waste time posting updates on what they had for breakfast and cute cats, but also in changing the underlying networking infrastructure the enterprise has come to know and love. At this week’s GigaOm’s Structure 2014 conference, Facebook executive Jay […]