Eric Lundquist

Flexible, innovative and ready to lead the technology pack have never been terms that I have applied to AT&T—but I may change my mind. I’ve been following the Open Networking Summit keynotes online—which are very well done; please, other conference organizers take note—and AT&T’s embrace of software-defined networks (SDNs) is already one of the top […]

When did digital trust and privacy move from something expected to something that is only provided at a price? The Edward Snowden revelations, National Security Agency snooping via alleged back doors into vendor systems, big retailer identity heists and big Internet companies built on consumers trading their privacy for free service are all examples of […]

The annual RSA Security Conference is an opportunity to take the pulse of the enterprise security business. While other technologies wax and wane with consumer popularity, corporate security is one of those must-haves where last year’s impregnably secure business looks like this year’s Swiss cheese. After attending keynotes, briefings and walking the exhibition floor, here […]

If you thought RSA Chairman Arthur Coviello’s keynote at his company’s RSA Security Conference would lay to rest the question of whether or not RSA Security was paid $10 million by the National Security Agency to use easily cracked encryption software, you would be wrong. In what was the most highly anticipated keynote at a […]

Trust will be the big word at this year’s upcoming RSA Conference Feb. 24-28 in San Francisco. While in the past, trust was translated into technical advances surrounding encryption, authentication and identity services, this year, trust means much more. This year, the word trust refers to the companies you work with, the products those companies […]

The Open Compute initiative is designed to upset the proprietary data center model in place for about the last 50 years with common designs and commodity components. The Open Daylight plan intends to upset the proprietary networking infrastructure. And then there is OpenStack, CloudStack and essentially open anything to do with computing. We are in […]

Microsoft needs to win the enterprise cloud wars and Satya Nadella is a good choice for a general. Since its founding, Microsoft has been a company that often missed the big technology shifts (graphical user interfaces, office suites, the Internet), recognized its miss and made up for its gaps in the late innings with winning […]

The current state of e-commerce is about three things: creating content that adds to your brand without sounding like a shrill sales pitch, making sure your e-commerce sites are tuned to all media platforms and planning how to grow within the Amazon jungle without getting stomped by the elephant of e-commerce. I spent a couple […]

Let me add another acronym to the enterprise-computing lexicon: ETC. ETC stands for “Embrace the Chaos,” and the topic came up during an interview last week in Boston’s Innovation District while I was visiting with Nick Stamos, the founder and CEO of nCrypted Cloud. Nick is a startup veteran with several successes, including Phase Forward […]

IBM is the most recent example of a company trying shift to the cloud while watching its hardware revenues fall off the cliff. In the company’s latest quarter and year-end financial report, the precipitous decline in hardware revenues was glaring with a decline of 26 percent to $4.3 billion from the comparable quarter a year […]

While the CES show was happening in Las Vegas last week, the bigger news was in the business-to-business technology segment. CES had a lot of interesting products, but most of them were predictable as TVs got bigger, more functions were crammed onto wrist fitness devices and smartphones proliferated and headed down in price. Meanwhile, back […]

I’m not at the Consumer Electronics Show this year. It’s much better to cover the event indoors back home in the frozen North. However, as I watched the video streams of the keynotes and read the live blogs, one thing was clear. Although CES (or the International CES 2014 as they like to be called), […]