Eric Lundquist

Google’s big tent strategy was in clear evidence this week at the Google I/O developers conference. The company with roots in linking ads to Internet searches now wants to own your wrist, your auto, your television and your whereabouts as you travel along in the Google cloud. The big tech tent outlined by keynoter and […]

Facebook has been busy not just in finding more ways for everyone in the world to waste time posting updates on what they had for breakfast and cute cats, but also in changing the underlying networking infrastructure the enterprise has come to know and love. At this week’s GigaOm’s Structure 2014 conference, Facebook executive Jay […]

Hewlett-Packard held press briefings on two new initiatives as the company’s Discover conference drew toward a close this week. One briefing highlighted an HP Labs project aimed at reinventing enterprise computer architecture. The other briefing highlighted how HP is going “all in” on OpenStack. The OpenStack press briefing was the more important one. OpenStack, a […]

Business executives want to operate in real time. If sales are up or down, marketing executives want to know about it right away. If a competitor cuts prices or dwindling inventory is going to mean constricted shipments or the social media is starting to chatter about your company’s poor customer service, you want to get […]

In an attempt to rekindle flagging enterprise sales, Hewlett-Packard introduced a wide range of products and services at its Discover2014 conference in Las Vegas. The introductions ranged from minor software tweaks to a high performance liquid-cooled supercomputer. The common thread was a renewed push into the enterprise space at a time when competitors, including IBM, […]

I don’t believe I’ve ever used “simple” and “SAP” in the same sentence. Implementing SAP enterprise applications was a complicated software and hardware undertaking that, while usually worth the journey, required time and money. Simple is as easy as signing up for a Google Gmail account. Now, newly minted sole SAP CEO Bill McDermott is […]

NEWS ANALYSIS: The overused term “big data” may fall out of favor even as the Google Car prototype shows how masses of data are constantly analyzed to keep driverless autos from crashing. Big data, the overhyped term used to described large scale data analysis, is headed for the big sleep. At least that was the […]

Somewhere out there is a smart guy or gal with decent coding skills ready to upset your best laid business plans. Maybe it is a new way of renting rooms or a challenge to taxi services in your city or the use of drones to deliver your pizza, But that new idea is germinating, and […]

Should OpenStack slow down its frantic twice-a-year upgrade pace, or should the open-source coders pound harder to take on ever new modules and markets? Can OpenStack really be turned into a click-and-deploy set of services, or will it always require trained (and scarce) engineers to get the engine running? With big, traditional tech vendors taking […]

On the opening day of the OpenStack Summit in Atlanta, users were front and center. The foundation, which oversees the open-source computing product stack, was formed in 2012 and has been characterized as too developer driven. So, at this year’s spring event, foundation Executive Director Jonathan Bryce spent a substantial amount of the opening keynote […]