Eric Lundquist

What does a federated EMC bring to the enterprise party? Potentially a lot, as EMC and its extended family, including VMware, Pivotal and RSA, cover the enterprise front from servers through software. However, creating a stack of services from a coalition of independent-minded companies is not an easy task. Even EMC Chairman Joe Tucci acknowledged […]

Is it EMC’s technology or the organization that’s evolving? You could find proponents of both arguments at this week’s EMC World technology conference May 5-8 in Las Vegas. EMC, the mothership, has been partially spinning off companies with the goal of aligning itself with the social, mobile and cloud trends rattling through the enterprise space. […]

I went to the Big Data Summit hosted by the Mass Technology Leadership Council recently in Cambridge, Mass., and had a chance to get an update on big data from an East Coast perspective. This was the fourth year of the summit, and during that time big data has emerged from concept to buzzword applied […]

I attended the Bloomberg Enterprise Technology Summit this week, which was the same week that Apple, VMware, Microsoft and Amazon issued robust quarterly financial reports. You might not think the conference and earnings reports are linked, but the trends discussed at the conference are already showing up in the vendor’s numbers. So what were the […]

NEW YORK—The public cloud is the only future option for enterprises, and traditional IT vendors are headed to a catastrophic experience. That was one of the predictions from this year’s Bloomberg Enterprise Technology Summit, which moved the discussion from whether public cloud computing is a viable alternative to traditional enterprise infrastructures to it being a […]

How much is your company spending on infrastructure this year? What would you do with $2.35 billion in infrastructure spending in just one quarter? The $2.35 billion is the infrastructure spending Google provided in its most recent quarterly report. While Google, like its peers, does not break down capital expenditures in a granular fashion, the […]

The development of shipping containers enabled the global trade we now enjoy and made shipping your products around the world a simple transaction. As the opening paragraph in a book chronicling the rise of shipping containers (The Box) from the origins in 1956 onward stated, “The container made shipping cheap, and by doing so changed […]

What is on the horizon for enterprise software and services? The answer to that question can be found at events such as DEMO Enterprise, where wannabe enterprise software and services moguls get to pitch their barely hatched companies to an assembled audience of venture capitalists, investors and media. That is a tough audience, but even […]

Interop is one of the last independent technology trade shows since many of the current crop of IT conferences have fallen into the morass of self-congratulatory vendor-specific events. The conference piece of the exhibition has morphed along with the tech industry itself as cloud computing, mobility and big data have reshaped the corporate IT. This […]

LAS VEGAS—Cloud computing was once seen as an end run around the IT department, where any business manager with a credit card was a threat to the IT budget. No more—or at least no more as far as the attendees at this year’s Cloud Connect conference were concerned. Cloud Connect, which is held in conjunction […]