Eric Lundquist

After much anticipation and 52 days as the CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella’s first big announcement centered on the company’s key business applications running on the tablets that the company once dismissed and produced by the company once rescued from the brink of oblivion by a $150 million Microsoft lifeline. The key elements of Microsoft […]

“Our prices are insane!” You remember that tagline if you spent any time in the New York region in the ’70s and ’80s and watched Crazy Eddie pitchman Jerry Carroll fast-talking his way through TV commercials that flogged the latest sales at the now-defunct electronics retailer. If you are really lucky, you still have the […]

Cloud computing is no longer all about a bunch of competitors trying to catch up with Amazon Web Services. Google—the one company most mentioned as the company that could really give Amazon a headache—wielded its technology, marketing and pricing power on March 25 to upend the cloud race. Google zeroed in on some of the […]

Enterprise applications used to be the poor cousin of consumer applications. Consumer apps got the fancy user interfaces, were designed to be mobile from the start and generally were more intuitive to use. Enterprise applications were secure, locked into a legacy interface and, frankly, boring. This is changing, and several of the applications displayed at […]

I attended GigaOm’s Structure Data conference last year, and the conference was all about the promise of Hadoop, big data and unstructured data, which is somewhat ironic for an event with “structure” in its title. This year’s event, March 19-20, was more about the deliverables in the form of case studies, user experiences and the […]

It wasn’t all that long after the World Wide Web grew from a private email channel for the scientific and defense communities on the verge of its explosive expansion into a global phenomenon that I had my first Web experience with browsers, Web servers and the power of links. It was back in the days […]

Flexible, innovative and ready to lead the technology pack have never been terms that I have applied to AT&T—but I may change my mind. I’ve been following the Open Networking Summit keynotes online—which are very well done; please, other conference organizers take note—and AT&T’s embrace of software-defined networks (SDNs) is already one of the top […]

When did digital trust and privacy move from something expected to something that is only provided at a price? The Edward Snowden revelations, National Security Agency snooping via alleged back doors into vendor systems, big retailer identity heists and big Internet companies built on consumers trading their privacy for free service are all examples of […]

The annual RSA Security Conference is an opportunity to take the pulse of the enterprise security business. While other technologies wax and wane with consumer popularity, corporate security is one of those must-haves where last year’s impregnably secure business looks like this year’s Swiss cheese. After attending keynotes, briefings and walking the exhibition floor, here […]

If you thought RSA Chairman Arthur Coviello’s keynote at his company’s RSA Security Conference would lay to rest the question of whether or not RSA Security was paid $10 million by the National Security Agency to use easily cracked encryption software, you would be wrong. In what was the most highly anticipated keynote at a […]