Eric Lundquist

I’ve sat through tens, hundreds, thousands (!) of technology keynotes, panels and presentations. I’ve heard about chasms crossed, paradigms shifted and disruptive innovation enough times to make the strongest weep. But you know what? You almost never hear CEOs or keynoters talk about what their products cost. Product prices are not a favorite keynote topic. […]

“The software-as-a-service ship has sailed,” Google CIO Ben Fried told attendees at the Bloomberg Enterprise Technology Summit in New York City late last month. Where once there were entire conferences dedicated to whether or not cloud computing would ever be right for the enterprise, that argument is now moot. OK. So it is a moot […]

I went to DEMO Mobile April 17 in San Francisco and came away with five lessons on how mobile continues to drive business innovation. Here they are. BTW, if you are looking for some of the top DEMO product introductions, eWEEK’s Chris Preimesberger has a top ten product slide show. Lesson One: Connect the physical […]

The big disruption of the enterprise technology industry is upon us. The Wall Street Journal recently had an article titled “Technology’s Rust Belt Takes Shape” that included a chart of disrupters and the disrupteds based on year-to-year revenue gains or losses. The numbers put some substance behind what I’ve seen in my travels and interviews […]

BestBuy, Comcast, HubSpot and Bloomberg epitomize the core message from the OpenStack Summit that took place in Portland, Ore., this week. Why? Executives from those companies all took turns on the keynote stage at OpenStack and explained how they are committing to the OpenStack infrastructure model. OpenStack is a cloud computing infrastructure based on open-source […]

If you want to be with-it in tech, put the words “Software Defined” in caps at the front of whatever you are discussing and charge forward. In fact, this is a Software-Defined Blog talking about all the recent Software-Defined News and by reading it, you, too, will become one of the Software-Defined Cognoscenti. Recently, Hewlett-Packard, […]

Talk to techies who worked at Hewlett-Packard in the ’80s and ’90s, and you’ll get an earful about the good old days of HP Labs and the culture of technology innovation. Those walk-around managers, the stories go, would find, encourage and fund projects that were too outlandish or too new for the bean counters and […]

Facebook’s decision to create a software branding and messaging skin leveraging the open Android system and OPH (other people’s hardware) has a lot to teach the high-tech community. The development of Facebook Home gives Zuckerberg and company a much-needed leg up in the mobile space and relieves them of the cost and burden of conjuring […]

If you are going to implement big data in your enterprise, start with the applications. While that is good advice for any tech or business exec considering where to invest his or her technology dollar, that advice is particularly trenchant in the world of big data. I attended the GigaOM Structure Data conference in New […]

What’s the right cloud for your business? Keep it all on premise? Build a hybrid? Take the big leap and put it all on the cloud? Amid all the vendor promises and cloud-based startups, picking the right flavor of cloud for your company is not an easy task. With that in mind, I spent a […]

10 Answers to Your Questions About the Past, Present and Future of the Internet Written by Eric Lundquist; Illustrated by Brian Moore 10 Answers to Your Questions About the Past, Present and Future of the Internet – Question 1 Q: Did the Internet always exist? A: Yes. The Internet is even older than the world. […]

Each year, Gartner at its annual Symposium/ITxpo produces a top 10 strategic technology trends list. Some years, the technologies don’t seem all that strategic (taxonomies in 2005) and some take a lot longer to develop (RFID tags in 2005 also). This year at its 2012 event, I thought Gartner hit on a bunch of good […]