Eric Lundquist

NEW YORK—The public cloud is the only future option for enterprises, and traditional IT vendors are headed to a catastrophic experience. That was one of the predictions from this year’s Bloomberg Enterprise Technology Summit, which moved the discussion from whether public cloud computing is a viable alternative to traditional enterprise infrastructures to it being a […]

How much is your company spending on infrastructure this year? What would you do with $2.35 billion in infrastructure spending in just one quarter? The $2.35 billion is the infrastructure spending Google provided in its most recent quarterly report. While Google, like its peers, does not break down capital expenditures in a granular fashion, the […]

The development of shipping containers enabled the global trade we now enjoy and made shipping your products around the world a simple transaction. As the opening paragraph in a book chronicling the rise of shipping containers (The Box) from the origins in 1956 onward stated, “The container made shipping cheap, and by doing so changed […]

What is on the horizon for enterprise software and services? The answer to that question can be found at events such as DEMO Enterprise, where wannabe enterprise software and services moguls get to pitch their barely hatched companies to an assembled audience of venture capitalists, investors and media. That is a tough audience, but even […]

Interop is one of the last independent technology trade shows since many of the current crop of IT conferences have fallen into the morass of self-congratulatory vendor-specific events. The conference piece of the exhibition has morphed along with the tech industry itself as cloud computing, mobility and big data have reshaped the corporate IT. This […]

LAS VEGAS—Cloud computing was once seen as an end run around the IT department, where any business manager with a credit card was a threat to the IT budget. No more—or at least no more as far as the attendees at this year’s Cloud Connect conference were concerned. Cloud Connect, which is held in conjunction […]

After much anticipation and 52 days as the CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella’s first big announcement centered on the company’s key business applications running on the tablets that the company once dismissed and produced by the company once rescued from the brink of oblivion by a $150 million Microsoft lifeline. The key elements of Microsoft […]

“Our prices are insane!” You remember that tagline if you spent any time in the New York region in the ’70s and ’80s and watched Crazy Eddie pitchman Jerry Carroll fast-talking his way through TV commercials that flogged the latest sales at the now-defunct electronics retailer. If you are really lucky, you still have the […]

Cloud computing is no longer all about a bunch of competitors trying to catch up with Amazon Web Services. Google—the one company most mentioned as the company that could really give Amazon a headache—wielded its technology, marketing and pricing power on March 25 to upend the cloud race. Google zeroed in on some of the […]

Enterprise applications used to be the poor cousin of consumer applications. Consumer apps got the fancy user interfaces, were designed to be mobile from the start and generally were more intuitive to use. Enterprise applications were secure, locked into a legacy interface and, frankly, boring. This is changing, and several of the applications displayed at […]

I attended GigaOm’s Structure Data conference last year, and the conference was all about the promise of Hadoop, big data and unstructured data, which is somewhat ironic for an event with “structure” in its title. This year’s event, March 19-20, was more about the deliverables in the form of case studies, user experiences and the […]

It wasn’t all that long after the World Wide Web grew from a private email channel for the scientific and defense communities on the verge of its explosive expansion into a global phenomenon that I had my first Web experience with browsers, Web servers and the power of links. It was back in the days […]