Eric Lundquist

Microsoft gets a lot of justified blame for faltering in smartphones and tablets. However, while the company has a long way to go to catch up in mobile, it is playing a very strong catch-up game in cloud computing. Last week the company touted its cloud success in its quarterly analyst call, published a memo […]

IT game-changers are the new technologies and new companies with the potential to upset the traditional enterprise landscape. Cloud computing, mobile devices, social networks and big data are now widely seen as game-changers, but they were once shrugged off as no big deal. Here are five recent game-changers I’m watching. CIOs Move to the Cloud […]

Oracle’s Oct. 23 acquisition of BigMachines cloud-based sales-quoting software is further and maybe conclusive evidence of the demise of IT budgets totally under the control of the chief information officer. The marketing department—once the home of a mysterious budget process built mostly around going to lunch and thinking creatively—has been the target of technology vendors […]

The Healthcare.gov site is sickly and the administration is intent on marshaling a small army of techies to make it whole. This will not work. The only thing worse than a roomful of coders pounding away without direction, is an overflowing room of techies suddenly noticing that all the pizza is gone. The Healthcare.gov Website […]

I looked into the future of marketing, and here are the two tasks you need to do right now. Take your techie down to the art museum. Send your leading creative professional to programming school. After spending a day at a triple-header digital marketing conference in Boston—Inbound Marketing Summit, Digital Pulse and FutureM—the need to […]

Desktone, the company offering service providers a desktop virtualization cloud service, has joined the VMware cloud. VMware announced on Oct. 15 at the European session of its VMworld user conference that it had acquired the Massachusetts-based company for an undisclosed sum. The Desktone acquisition further rounds out VMware’s strategy to shift from being solely seen […]

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s EmTech conference mixes (as its name states) discussions of emerging technologies and awards for young entrepreneurs developing innovative companies that matter, instead of tiresome replays of existing business models. But it also presents interviews with seasoned executives. The format and content of the MIT conference provides one of the better […]

Client/server computing was a technology ahead of its time—and more importantly ahead of the enterprise network infrastructure capabilities of the time. While vendors and users largely agreed on the value of the model and on the best methods to implement the model, hardware and software vendors’ desire to lock users into their product lines as […]

They weren’t on the stage at the same time, which would have made the Gartner mastermind interview series much more interesting. But over two days, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt and outgoing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took turns on the stage in front of a packed hall of existing and potential customers. These keynote interviews […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—Each year at its annual symposium, Gartner analysts pick the top 10 technologies that should change the enterprise and consumer world over the coming years. This year’s list was presented by Daryl Plummer, Gartner’s managing vice president. Here is his list and my ratings on a 1 (no way in the world) to 5 […]

A big, fast-moving digital train is headed your way, and you either jump aboard to become an engineer or get flattened. That, in essence, was the message from the Gartner researchers and analysts at the start of this year’s Gartner Symposium 2013. While it is not much of a surprise that the analog world is […]

New cloud competition, the meshing of consumer and network applications, the maturing of software-defined networks, network services to match compute and storage, and the continuing quest for mobile device management are five trends highlighted at this year’s Interop New York conference. I spent a couple of days at Interop (which itself has become a mash-up […]