Eric Lundquist

Trust will be the big word at this year’s upcoming RSA Conference Feb. 24-28 in San Francisco. While in the past, trust was translated into technical advances surrounding encryption, authentication and identity services, this year, trust means much more. This year, the word trust refers to the companies you work with, the products those companies […]

The Open Compute initiative is designed to upset the proprietary data center model in place for about the last 50 years with common designs and commodity components. The Open Daylight plan intends to upset the proprietary networking infrastructure. And then there is OpenStack, CloudStack and essentially open anything to do with computing. We are in […]

Microsoft needs to win the enterprise cloud wars and Satya Nadella is a good choice for a general. Since its founding, Microsoft has been a company that often missed the big technology shifts (graphical user interfaces, office suites, the Internet), recognized its miss and made up for its gaps in the late innings with winning […]

The current state of e-commerce is about three things: creating content that adds to your brand without sounding like a shrill sales pitch, making sure your e-commerce sites are tuned to all media platforms and planning how to grow within the Amazon jungle without getting stomped by the elephant of e-commerce. I spent a couple […]

Let me add another acronym to the enterprise-computing lexicon: ETC. ETC stands for “Embrace the Chaos,” and the topic came up during an interview last week in Boston’s Innovation District while I was visiting with Nick Stamos, the founder and CEO of nCrypted Cloud. Nick is a startup veteran with several successes, including Phase Forward […]

IBM is the most recent example of a company trying shift to the cloud while watching its hardware revenues fall off the cliff. In the company’s latest quarter and year-end financial report, the precipitous decline in hardware revenues was glaring with a decline of 26 percent to $4.3 billion from the comparable quarter a year […]

While the CES show was happening in Las Vegas last week, the bigger news was in the business-to-business technology segment. CES had a lot of interesting products, but most of them were predictable as TVs got bigger, more functions were crammed onto wrist fitness devices and smartphones proliferated and headed down in price. Meanwhile, back […]

I’m not at the Consumer Electronics Show this year. It’s much better to cover the event indoors back home in the frozen North. However, as I watched the video streams of the keynotes and read the live blogs, one thing was clear. Although CES (or the International CES 2014 as they like to be called), […]

The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) starts next week. I won’t be there this year, but about 150,000 consumer electronics geeks will attend to scout around for the next big thing. The chances of actually finding the next big thing are remote in an arena driven by huge vendors (Samsung, et. al.) with huge marketing […]

As we count down the last few days of 2013, here are the remainder of my picks for the top 10 events, trends, technologies that changed the enterprise in 2013. The Rehabilitation of Healthcare.gov The collapse and slow rehabilitation program for the Healthcare.gov Website provided a reminder for every techie who struggled for years with […]