Eric Lundquist

NEW ORLEANS—While much of the attention of the recent enterprise system announcements at Microsoft’s Tech Ed conference was focused on the embrace of all things Azure cloud from Redmond, much of the decision making over the coming months from technology professionals will be deciding which pieces of their infrastructure should be upgraded. While Microsoft would […]

NEW ORLEANS—The major innovation Microsoft has brought to the technology business is the ability to play a good game of catch-up ball. From graphic interfaces to email to Web browsers to the entire Internet, the company too often sits out the first innings of big technology shifts, sputters about in the middle innings and finally, […]

NEW ORLEANS—”Do the work in the tools you know.” That phrase from Eron Kelly, SQL general manager at Microsoft, summarized the company’s TechEd conference and many, many announcements here in New Orleans. The idea is that technology execs and administrators will be able to take the tools and systems they are using on premise and […]

10 Mary Meeker Slides That Should Matter Most to CIOs Eric Lundquist is a technology analyst at Ziff Brothers Investments, a private investment firm. Eric Lundquist, who was editor-in-chief at eWEEK (previously PC WEEK) from 1996-2008 authored this feature for eWEEK to share his thoughts on technology, products and services. No investment advice is offered […]

“I believe we are about two years ahead,” said SAP co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe in a brief interview following his and co-CEO Bill McDermott’s press conference at this year’s Sapphire conference in Orlando, Fla., in May. The two years that Snabe was referring to is the lead he believes SAP’s HANA enterprise architecture provides to […]

Here’s the profile of the modern CIO. He or she is an expert at doing more with less and is adroit at whittling down the traditional costs associated with keeping the lights on. But the CIO is also absolutely ahead of the rest of the company in implementing cloud computing, mobility, social networks and big […]

“Big data is a management revolution,” Erik Brynjolfsson, director of MIT’s Center for Digital Business, told the 700 attendees at the Tenth Annual MIT Sloan CIO Symposium on May 22. Brynjolfsson’s statement, presentation and panel discussion with some of academia’s top big data experts highlighted the fundamental change that big data is bringing to the […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—Manage the security of mobile devices for about $1 a device in the cloud? There was no bigger indication of how much cloud, mobile and big data have changed the technology landscape than SAP’s announcement of a series of mobile security products based largely on partnerships and offered in a cloud-based environment running on […]

The biggest news at this week’s Interop show wasn’t one more vendor proclaiming fealty to software-defined networking or watching Cisco’s Robert Soderbery try to shoot hoops with Cleveland Cavalier’s Kyrie Irving. The big news came during Facebook’s Frank Frankovsky’s keynote when he announced that the Open Compute Project would tackle opening up network switches. “Openness […]

Business intelligence is passé. Now it’s the intelligent business, and this shift is more than a simple name flip. The shift underscores the altering of business intelligence from making better use of the data inside your company to using those vast pools of data outside your firm (big data if you will) to capitalize on […]

LAS VEGAS—First of all, think of EMC as a federation of four companies: storage-oriented EMC, security-oriented RSA (actually a division within EMC), virtualization-oriented VMware and the newest addition, cloud-platform provider Pivotal.Those four companies are aligned in their focus on the enterprise, overseen at the strategic level by Chairman and CEO Joe Tucci, exist in a […]

LAS VEGAS—EMC is betting that by providing a transitional software-based storage management architecture the company will be part of its customers’ transition to the cloud. ViPR, introduced at the currently ongoing EMC world customer conference, is designed to provide abstraction layers for both the control and data path storage operations in companies. The concept underlying […]