Eric Lundquist

It wasnt our intention to time our cover story on disaster recovery with a major earthquake in Seattle, but it happened. Disaster recovery too often falls into the same category as security considerations in building an IT infrastructure. While everyone agrees that recovery and security are important, they dont move from the bottom of the […]

Recently, we presented our eWeek excellence awards (www.excellenceawardsonline.com). Im clearly biased in support of the awards, but I do want to talk about the background of the competition. When we were kicking around the idea of the awards a year ago, there were a couple of developing trends that have since come to fruition. We […]

Given a choice, which would you choose: more money or more training? While that is an easy answer for me as I realized long ago I am untrainable, the wisest route for you would be training. As Maria Seminerio outlines in “Training: Key to retaining”, the major factor in keeping IT professionals satisfied with their […]

This is my last column that will mention failed dot-com companies. The rise of dot-coms was a topic trumpeted mercilessly by venture capitalists, stock analysts, forecasters and, yes, the press. All that backslapping led to a gigantic run-up in unreachable expectations that will have our grandchildren looking back at us as if we were a […]

Weve wrapped up our Openhack III competition, and no one busted in, so what did we learn? These competitions, where we issue an open challenge to the hackers of the world to find a way to break into a Web site, draw a huge amount of interest, averaging 5 million hits and 340,000 hack attacks […]

First, let me say thanks to the hundreds of e-mailers who offered very constructive advice following my column about the difficulties of running the 6.0 version of AOLs client on my Road Runner cable connection. It would take me a really long time to respond individually, so Ill do it in groups. To all those […]

Im really happy about the AOL-Time Warner merger. Ever since AOL came out with Version 6.0, the browser has been crashing my Road Runner cable connection. Now that the merger has been completed, its time to start working out the bugs in my system. n Things were fine until AOL Version 6. Since that upgrade, […]

Im trying my best to restart the high-tech economy, but it looks as if high tech will have to start its own engine. When Barnes & Noble added its earnings warning to those of the pack of companies moaning about a slow fourth quarter, it reminded me of the Barnes & Noble gift card I […]

A couple of questions and maybe a few answers coming into the new year. Managed and hosted services were all the rage a year ago, but too few customers and too high a cash burn rate have shut down many hosting providers. Who will benefit? Watch enterprises with staying power. Scott Cook at Intuit has […]

Here are some presents to put under the high-tech tree this holiday season: A new voting system. This one does not have to be that high-tech, but the irony of candidates touting their support of technology while unaware of the low-tech, chad-filled pit waiting to embarrass one and all cannot be missed. The parallel between […]

Whats up for next year? In a time of great uncertainty—from the presidential election to the bumpy economic warnings—there is nervousness in the tech industry and beyond. Recently, eWeek identified 12 technologies that corporate IT must watch in 2001. Those technologies include advanced encryption, optical switching and storage over IP. But beyond technologies, there are […]

Each year about now, prophets of doom arise to predict the end of the IT industry. Two years ago, they warned about Y2K remediation, which would suck up all the investment dollars and leave IT projects on ice. Y2K wasnt free, but it didnt stop the process of trying to bring technology to bear on […]