Eric Lundquist

You are embarrassed to discover your company is sending mail to a former customer now deceased. You have to hire a swivel chair data input operator who spends the day re-entering data between incompatible systems by swiveling from screen to screen. Government organizations are supposed to share data on suspicious individuals, but a name falls […]

The half year mark is when the major technology research organizations recalibrate their technology predictions. This year is no different, with both Forrester Research and Gartner recasting their forecasts. Forecasting technology markets, like forecasting the weather, is an inexact science but a topic that draws much discussion. In 2013 the major trends of mobile, cloud, […]

Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer created a big news splash last week as he outlined a fundamental reorganization of the company. His 2,700-word memo highlighted a company organized functionally around products and services designed to compute in harmony. Amid the many news analyses (including mine) about the new (to their corporate positions at least) players, the new […]

Here’s what I’ve learned from covering big corporate reorganizations and being on both sides of media reorganizations: The real work starts the day after the stump speeches, PowerPoint slides, and salutes to the new bosses and good-byes to the old. Unless the reorganized employees can answer the question, “What does this mean to me and […]

Cell phones that peer through walls and wireless connection speeds increased by 10 times are technically feasible, and prototypes have already been demonstrated, according to an MIT researcher. At the recent Mobile Summit: It’s a Disruptive Mobile World conference in Boston sponsored by the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council, Dina Katabi, the director for the MIT […]

Technology integration and its myriad benefits was the focus of Silicon Valley this week, with one vendor actually delivering on the promise. At the Hadoop summit in San Jose, Calif., the talk was about enterprise platforms that will one day mesh structured and unstructured information to deliver a new era of business applications. At the […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—The enterprise and Hadoop should be the perfect marriage for the next wave of corporate data analysis technology. What could be more enticing than a technology platform that promises to mix the old with the new and come up with “voila!”—a computing engine to outpace your competition? At this week’s 2013 Hadoop summit, […]

Cross out Amazon and write in Microsoft, and you will get the gist of the recent Oracle/Microsoft announcement: “Together, Amazon and Oracle provide businesses with a scalable, reliable and cost-effective business application platform.” That statement, from the Amazon Web Services Website, talks about all the benefits of shifting your Oracle applications to the Amazon cloud […]

“Journey management,” is the new buzzword for CIOs to describe their technology development strategy. John Herbert, 20th Century Fox CIO, used the term last week at Hewlett-Packard’s Discover event while describing the elements of his organization’s tech journey. That journey includes much greater use of digital content delivery, and calls for shrinking data center space […]

LAS VEGAS—The HP Discover conference here this week included a wide range of new products and services. As Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman contended in her keynote, the industry is ready for a “new style of IT.” If you are going to adopt a new style, you need to provide some stylish new products. Here is […]

LAS VEGAS—“The new style of IT,” championed by HP CEO Meg Whitman during her keynote at this year’s HP Discover conference, also requires a new style of Hewlett-Packard as the venerable, but recently troubled company has bolstered its product line and prepared for an enterprise technology metamorphosis based on mobile, big data and cloud computing. […]

Hewlett-Packard, working to recover from management chaos and a changing technology marketplace, has introduced a series of retail, desktop and print services products at its annual HP Discover conference. The introductions were less about the individual products and more about trying to position HP as a full-service enterprise provider offering products, services and financing to […]