Eric Lundquist

While Cisco was founded to build the routers and switches powering corporate networks, and it recently moved to embrace the server hardware business, the future for Cisco is as an applications company, according to CEO John Chambers. In his keynote presentation Oct. 2 at this year’s Interop New York, Chambers said the next step for […]

I spent the early part of the week at Oracle’s OpenWorld customer conference in San Francisco learning about engineered systems, the expansion of the Oracle cloud, the rebirth of Java and all things Oracle red. The event was interesting for the opportunity to get an update on a company wrestling with a fundamental transition in […]

SAN FRANCISCO—The red cloud has finally fully enveloped Oracle. After years of an off-again, on-again relation with the cloud computing concept, Oracle acknowledged the necessity of being a full-service player in the cloud and is offering its entire range of database, compute and applications in cloud configurations. While Oracle is offering up its support for […]

Buoyed by wins in the America’s Cup, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison opened this year’s Oracle OpenWorld conference by outlining an enterprise technology world full of possibilities—if you just do it Larry’s way—totally. In an era of open compute, software-defined networks and Web giants such as Google, Facebook and Amazon wielding warehouse arrays of commodity hardware, […]

I went to the TEDx Cambridge (Mass.) event last week. Next week I am heading off for the rounds of fall shows including Oracle OpenWorld, Interop, the Gartner Symposium and Amazon’s AWS re:Invent. Clearly, I’ve got a lot of PowerPoint time in my future. Here’s what I heard and what I learned and what events […]

Big data often comes across as more of a buzzword than reality. But listening to users speak about their projects at the Big Data Innovation conference in Boston last week provided insight into what the power of big data can mean to a company. Here are my top five takeaways from the conference. 1.) The […]

Hybrid hardware infrastructures are a big topic in the enterprise technology segment. CIOs and tech managers want to meld their internal capabilities with cloud computing in a mix that preserves the old investments and creates a path to the new. The same thing is happening in the data and business analysis segments. I spent a […]

Act One was a smart guy with a smart idea. The guy was Michael Dell. The smart idea was to sell customers personal computers they desired at the price they wanted instead of pushing them to buy whatever was overstocked in the warehouse. On the financial side of the equation, the ability for a company […]

While big data is getting all the headlines, small data is the next big thing. Big data and the value associated with combining and culling vast structured and unstructured data sets for business insights is a worthwhile but, as the name implies, big undertaking. It may be too big for all but the largest enterprises […]

One event was in Milan and featured a product no consumer will ever see, but all will experience. The second was in Berlin and featured a family of consumer products, which are a primary reason the PC industry is racing toward a brick wall. One city has great food; the other has great beer. I […]

In 2011, newly minted Nokia CEO Stephen Elop sent a 1,300 word internal company memo comparing the company’s phone business to the plight of a North Sea oil worker facing the frightening choice of remaining on a fire-engulfed oil platform or taking a chance and jumping into the frigid waters. In the memo, which in […]

I attended VMworld virtually this year. This means I stayed on the East Coast, while on the West Coast the 10th annual show—with the motto Defy Convention—unfolded for me on video, news reports and live blogs. Since VMware was all about virtualization before embracing the cloud and software-defined data, a virtual trip to San Francisco […]