Eric Lundquist

The good news is that you are likely to receive incremental spending authority for new IT initiatives in 2006. The bad news is that your IT budget will still not be sufficient to meet your strategic goals. Those numbers, drawn from a survey by CIO Insight (part of the Ziff Davis Enterprise Group, which includes […]

Microsoft would like to sell you a total security platform including the access control, tokens and scanning software intended to make your system hacker- and virus-free. Cisco would like to sell you a total security platform based on an overarching network model that can find, isolate and defeat bad code before it rampages through your […]

“The long tail” started as an article (soon to be a book) by Wireds editor in chief, Chris Anderson. In my imperfect summary, Anderson essentially states that the Internet provides a long life to lots of products and services. Amazon.com is a mix of a few big hits and lots of books that would have […]

Jonathan Schwartz, president and chief operating officer of Sun Microsystems, recently met with a group of eWEEK editors, where he discussed his corporate agenda, Suns focus on energy conservation, open source and related topics. The following excerpts are from an edited interview. What are the top items on your corporate agenda this year? These are […]

Remember when you would pick an e-mail system based on its unique capabilities? Maybe youd pick cc:Mail or IBM PROFS or even Microsoft Mail for the ability to shuttle e-mail around your company with a reasonable assurance that the message would get to the intended recipient. The rise of the Internet and the World Wide […]

It is time to throw your IT operation in the blender. Where once you would pick a single best-of-breed product and build a business around that choice, today you should be making choices on how products blend with one another. For example, taking a blended approach to spyware may be the only approach that can […]

Whose data is it anyhow? The personal technology industry has been roiling of late with the news that Microsoft and Yahoo have agreed to provide some anonymous search data related to a Department of Justice subpoena, while Google is fighting the request. The issue highlights an emerging debate that will affect business as well. The […]

Now that Apple has started using Intel chips, will Dell start using AMD chips? While at first the two events may not seem connected, I think they are, but I dont think youll see an AMD chip in a Dell box until certain behind-the-scenes financial and marketing negotiations make sense for Dell. It would be […]

Heres a tech project: Take lots of disparate electronic devices, tie them all in to a new server and make each device available to everyone. Does this sound like some major technology project at your company? It isnt. This project will take place in your living room as your family demands that you build a […]

Im writing this before I head out to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, but my expectations are strong for lots of products that will first appear in the consumer arena and make their way into the corporate world. Flat-panel monitors, which no exec would now do without, first appeared in the consumer space […]

What will be the top IT trends in 2006? I know it is a bit premature to outline what will happen in 06 just as the year is getting under way, but here goes. The confluence of location, identity and mobility. Each year the prognosticators have been saying “this is the year” for—pick one—GPS and […]

Top-trend stories are different from top-news stories. The best trend is one that is little noticed at the time but has a big effect later on. Few people were betting that Google could become more than a really cool search engine when it was formed seven years ago, but look what happened. Here are some […]