Eric Lundquist

What were the top 10 events, trends, and technologies that changed the enterprise in 2013? While there are lots of candidates, I picked the top one which I think had the greatest impact. Here are my first five trends. I’ll be adding the final five in a later blog and then sorting them out in […]

What’s more important for the enterprise, Amazon’s (very) early disclosure of its ideas to deliver your Amazon Prime purchases via airborne drones or Google finally moving its Compute Engine as a service from beta to prime time? It’s easy to answer that question for anyone concerned with their corporate computing infrastructure for 2014. Google has […]

What should we make of the new and improved Salesforce.com? This version of the company is all about sales, marketing and service queued up on a unified platform named Salesforce1. It’s built on a spiffed-up version of the Chatter enterprise messaging platform. Fading is the old Salesforce which tried to sell a social collaborative platform […]

Over the last two weeks, I went to the two ends of the cloud spectrum. In Las Vegas it was the Amazon re:Invent conference. While Amazon doesn’t release revenue figures for Amazon Web Services, the best-guess estimate of $4 billion per year is the agreed upon range among market analysts. In San Francisco, it was […]

LAS VEGAS—Vendors hoping to cash in on the Internet of things buzz and wishing that Amazon Web Services would stay out of the “things” business take note: AWS intends to connect everything with a newly introduced Kinesis real-time processing service. Kinesis is a cloud infrastructure for real-time processing and analysis of high-volume data streams that […]

LAS VEGAS—Amazon Web Services introduced a series of important—but not supremely significant—new services Nov. 13 during the day’s main re:Invent keynote presented by Andrew Jassy, senior vice president of Web Services at Amazon.com. The service introductions continue a trend in which Amazon has introduced 235 new services and updates as the company continues to chip […]

LAS VEGAS—What better time for competitors to introduce their new cloud services than the day before the big fish makes a splash? With the main keynotes from the Amazon Web Services honchos starting on Nov. 13 at the company’s second re:Invent conference, competitors Pivotal and Google made their own cloud computing announcements. For enterprise IT […]

Rather than slug it out with the software-defined network upstarts who endorse commodity hardware, Cisco is redefining the battleground and moving the networking wars to another theatre of battle. At a press conference Nov. 6 in New York, the company introduced what Cisco Chairman John Chambers called the next era of IT. The application centric […]

Havana, the latest version of OpenStack, was released in mid-October, just a few weeks before the OpenStack Summit scheduled for Nov. 5 to 8 in Hong Kong. The semi-annual code updates from the OpenStack foundation are impressive—for the breadth of features and also for the ability to coordinate the activities of more than 900 developers […]

Bill Lowe, the ‘father’ of the IBM PC, died Oct. 19 at 72. It is odd now to think of IBM without a PC to sell when at one point, in the early 1980s, the PC was the little engine that turned Big Blue from the maker of massive and hugely expensive business computers into […]