Eric Lundquist

SUVs are piling up unsold on car dealer lots, and car manufacturers (such as Honda) are shifting their production lines from gas hogs to fuel sippers. I’m wondering, are there the equivalent of IT SUVs? Servers (hey, they even begin with an “S”) are a good place to start looking. While there is a lot […]

OK, so that is a strained headline. But she is a champion sailor and windsurfer. I interviewed Diane Greene at EMC’s Cambridge, Mass office in the spring along with eWeek reporter Scott Ferguson (who asked all the good questions). Now, she has parted ways with EMC as the company stated that their revenues might not […]

Gmail: the endless reload story I thought it was just me and my new updated version of Firefox, but I am not alone in finding my gmail account goes into an endless loop of refresh. There is even an endless reload forum at Google started on this The amount of helpful advice starts off with […]

Why do you invest in technology? I’ve always argued there are really two reasons. The first reason is to save some money as you make your company more efficient. The second reason is to accelerate your company’s ability to grow. In an up economy, the investments usually favor the growth part of the equation. In […]

Here’s the Bill Gates retirement scene I’d like to see: Bill, punchcard in hand, waiting until exactly 5 p.m. before punching out so he can make sure to get his last hundred thou in hand before going off to fight malaria, feed the starving masses and stop second guessing Steve. While that scene is not […]

The yin and yang of being an IT professional were in evidence today. Presidential candidate John McCain came up with the idea of offering a $300 million prize for a battery that would far exceed the capabilities of today’s present power sources for hybrid cars and such. I don’t think you can pay too much […]

Do you want to do something that is sure to chew up your nights and weekends? And at the end of your task, you will need to be ready to answer many questions about why you picked one company over another. If that sounds appealing, you have the potential to be a judge in the […]

A year after VMware’s successful IPO, virtualization has shifted gears from niche technology to the must-have underpinning for projects ranging from disaster recovery to data backup to desktop application delivery. It’s not surprising, then, that other companies are developing products for the market that VMware has been synonymous with up until now. So CEO Diane […]

I did a video commentary for eWeek from Newport recently while I was down there attending the annual APC editorial confab. The lead story in the Providence Journal was about $4 gas and accompanying articles were about the rising costs of food and nearly everything else in our petro-based economy. The point I made in […]