Eric Lundquist

Hewlett-Packard held press briefings on two new initiatives as the company’s Discover conference drew toward a close this week. One briefing highlighted an HP Labs project aimed at reinventing enterprise computer architecture. The other briefing highlighted how HP is going “all in” on OpenStack. The OpenStack press briefing was the more important one. OpenStack, a […]

Business executives want to operate in real time. If sales are up or down, marketing executives want to know about it right away. If a competitor cuts prices or dwindling inventory is going to mean constricted shipments or the social media is starting to chatter about your company’s poor customer service, you want to get […]

In an attempt to rekindle flagging enterprise sales, Hewlett-Packard introduced a wide range of products and services at its Discover2014 conference in Las Vegas. The introductions ranged from minor software tweaks to a high performance liquid-cooled supercomputer. The common thread was a renewed push into the enterprise space at a time when competitors, including IBM, […]

I don’t believe I’ve ever used “simple” and “SAP” in the same sentence. Implementing SAP enterprise applications was a complicated software and hardware undertaking that, while usually worth the journey, required time and money. Simple is as easy as signing up for a Google Gmail account. Now, newly minted sole SAP CEO Bill McDermott is […]

NEWS ANALYSIS: The overused term “big data” may fall out of favor even as the Google Car prototype shows how masses of data are constantly analyzed to keep driverless autos from crashing. Big data, the overhyped term used to described large scale data analysis, is headed for the big sleep. At least that was the […]

Somewhere out there is a smart guy or gal with decent coding skills ready to upset your best laid business plans. Maybe it is a new way of renting rooms or a challenge to taxi services in your city or the use of drones to deliver your pizza, But that new idea is germinating, and […]

Should OpenStack slow down its frantic twice-a-year upgrade pace, or should the open-source coders pound harder to take on ever new modules and markets? Can OpenStack really be turned into a click-and-deploy set of services, or will it always require trained (and scarce) engineers to get the engine running? With big, traditional tech vendors taking […]

On the opening day of the OpenStack Summit in Atlanta, users were front and center. The foundation, which oversees the open-source computing product stack, was formed in 2012 and has been characterized as too developer driven. So, at this year’s spring event, foundation Executive Director Jonathan Bryce spent a substantial amount of the opening keynote […]

What does a federated EMC bring to the enterprise party? Potentially a lot, as EMC and its extended family, including VMware, Pivotal and RSA, cover the enterprise front from servers through software. However, creating a stack of services from a coalition of independent-minded companies is not an easy task. Even EMC Chairman Joe Tucci acknowledged […]

Is it EMC’s technology or the organization that’s evolving? You could find proponents of both arguments at this week’s EMC World technology conference May 5-8 in Las Vegas. EMC, the mothership, has been partially spinning off companies with the goal of aligning itself with the social, mobile and cloud trends rattling through the enterprise space. […]

I went to the Big Data Summit hosted by the Mass Technology Leadership Council recently in Cambridge, Mass., and had a chance to get an update on big data from an East Coast perspective. This was the fourth year of the summit, and during that time big data has emerged from concept to buzzword applied […]

I attended the Bloomberg Enterprise Technology Summit this week, which was the same week that Apple, VMware, Microsoft and Amazon issued robust quarterly financial reports. You might not think the conference and earnings reports are linked, but the trends discussed at the conference are already showing up in the vendor’s numbers. So what were the […]