Eric Lundquist

The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) starts next week. I won’t be there this year, but about 150,000 consumer electronics geeks will attend to scout around for the next big thing. The chances of actually finding the next big thing are remote in an arena driven by huge vendors (Samsung, et. al.) with huge marketing […]

As we count down the last few days of 2013, here are the remainder of my picks for the top 10 events, trends, technologies that changed the enterprise in 2013. The Rehabilitation of Healthcare.gov The collapse and slow rehabilitation program for the Healthcare.gov Website provided a reminder for every techie who struggled for years with […]

What were the top 10 events, trends, and technologies that changed the enterprise in 2013? While there are lots of candidates, I picked the top one which I think had the greatest impact. Here are my first five trends. I’ll be adding the final five in a later blog and then sorting them out in […]

What’s more important for the enterprise, Amazon’s (very) early disclosure of its ideas to deliver your Amazon Prime purchases via airborne drones or Google finally moving its Compute Engine as a service from beta to prime time? It’s easy to answer that question for anyone concerned with their corporate computing infrastructure for 2014. Google has […]

What should we make of the new and improved Salesforce.com? This version of the company is all about sales, marketing and service queued up on a unified platform named Salesforce1. It’s built on a spiffed-up version of the Chatter enterprise messaging platform. Fading is the old Salesforce which tried to sell a social collaborative platform […]

Over the last two weeks, I went to the two ends of the cloud spectrum. In Las Vegas it was the Amazon re:Invent conference. While Amazon doesn’t release revenue figures for Amazon Web Services, the best-guess estimate of $4 billion per year is the agreed upon range among market analysts. In San Francisco, it was […]

LAS VEGAS—Vendors hoping to cash in on the Internet of things buzz and wishing that Amazon Web Services would stay out of the “things” business take note: AWS intends to connect everything with a newly introduced Kinesis real-time processing service. Kinesis is a cloud infrastructure for real-time processing and analysis of high-volume data streams that […]

LAS VEGAS—Amazon Web Services introduced a series of important—but not supremely significant—new services Nov. 13 during the day’s main re:Invent keynote presented by Andrew Jassy, senior vice president of Web Services at Amazon.com. The service introductions continue a trend in which Amazon has introduced 235 new services and updates as the company continues to chip […]

LAS VEGAS—What better time for competitors to introduce their new cloud services than the day before the big fish makes a splash? With the main keynotes from the Amazon Web Services honchos starting on Nov. 13 at the company’s second re:Invent conference, competitors Pivotal and Google made their own cloud computing announcements. For enterprise IT […]

Rather than slug it out with the software-defined network upstarts who endorse commodity hardware, Cisco is redefining the battleground and moving the networking wars to another theatre of battle. At a press conference Nov. 6 in New York, the company introduced what Cisco Chairman John Chambers called the next era of IT. The application centric […]

Havana, the latest version of OpenStack, was released in mid-October, just a few weeks before the OpenStack Summit scheduled for Nov. 5 to 8 in Hong Kong. The semi-annual code updates from the OpenStack foundation are impressive—for the breadth of features and also for the ability to coordinate the activities of more than 900 developers […]

Bill Lowe, the ‘father’ of the IBM PC, died Oct. 19 at 72. It is odd now to think of IBM without a PC to sell when at one point, in the early 1980s, the PC was the little engine that turned Big Blue from the maker of massive and hugely expensive business computers into […]