Eric Lundquist

Here are some caveats I advise when looking at spending forecasts. 1. Use the numbers as a guide, not as the literal truth. 2. Stuff changes 3. Technology can change everything. Okay, with those caveats in mind. Here are some numbers offered up at the annual Gartner Symposium/ITxpo. Spending is slowing but increases are still […]

Gartner rang the alarm bell today at the organization‘s annual Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando. While it is a long standing tradition for consulting organizations to detail a crisis to which they have the answer at their user events, the Gartner analysts were particularly strident in their IT and CIO wake up call. And I think they […]

Company transitions can be painful. When the transition involves a transition from an iconic genius who was the company founder, captivating spokesman and product visionary, that painful transition can become excruciating. Or maybe not. The executives at Apple Inc. are now going through a transition that will become the stuff of business school case studies […]

Steve Jobs shows off iPhone 4 at the 2010 Worl…Image via Wikipedia In the years since Apple’s founding in 1976 until his death at 56 years old on Oct. 5, Steve Jobs moved from being a player in the technology industry to being THE moving force in technology, business and social creation. Along the way, […]

Big IT Matters Cisco Systems bailed out of the Flip business in part to try to recover lost ground in enterprise networking. Hewlett-Packard is reassembling itself into an enterprise IT software and services organization. Why is that? Enterprise IT has money and it is willing to spend it where it can help grow sales or […]

Image representing Hewlett-Packard as depicted…Image via CrunchBase Ten years ago almost to the day, Hewlett-Packard bought Compaq Computer for $25 Billion and in so doing re-arranged the personal computer industry. All H-P had to do was to get its corporate pinstripe, manage by walk around background to meld with the freewheeling Houston, Texas company that […]

Image representing Google as depicted in Crunc…Image via CrunchBase Motorola is a name long associated with mobile communications. Those Walkie-Talkies in World War II? That would be Moto. Car radios, moon missions and in 1983 the first commercial portable phone, all Moto. And now in the biggest innovation of all, Moto gets acquired by Google […]

Simon Crosby was one of the earliest advocates of virtualization and cloud computing. From XenSource, to Citrix and now to his startup Bromium. In this exclusive video interview, Simon discusses the obstacles to the further development of cloud computing, creating security in the cloud and the influence of prosumers on business applications. Click here to […]

PALO ALTO, CA – OCTOBER 06: Facebook founder …Image by Getty Images via @daylife Facebook is a database with a great user interface on top. Skype is a database that authenticates users and shuffles calls around based on type. Of course all database engineers argue that every software application lives or dies by the underlying […]

Image representing Google as depicted in Crunc…Image via CrunchBase Remember all those blog posts asking if Facebook would be ready for business? I’m not sure that was ever answered but it did give rise to business-oriented Facebook competitors including Salesforce.Com’s Chatter and Yammer. Now I’m guessing that Google’s new Google+ offering will become a business […]

Forbes, via AP, is covering the shuffles at the top of Hewlett Packard . Credit Leo for acting quickly. Changing HP into a true services company is going to be a big task. With high margin items from printers and supplies as well as a strong heritage of hardware, the shift is both necessary and […]

An illustration of an example IPv6 address wit…Image via Wikipedia This falls into the “We’ll see if this hybrid engine works” category. Last fall a bunch of big tech players said they will give IPv6 a trial run. That run takes place tomorrow. Google, Facebook and Yahoo are among those giving IPv6 a trial run. […]