Eric Lundquist

Disaster planning used to focus on natural disasters, accidents and careless employees. But after the terrorist strikes on Sept. 11 last year, disaster planning expanded to become the work of planning to recover from an attack once thought of as only remotely possible in the United States. This week, we go back to companies and […]

Ready for the real-time enterprise? Where real-time operations were once the province of nuclear power plants and mission-critical manufacturing processes, the real-time concept has been sneaking into the vocabulary of the “next big thing” technology futurists. The most recent explanation Ive heard was during a presentation by Creative Strategies President Tim Bajarin at a CRM […]

Does our desire for security mean well be passing all our data through some big federal cyber network operations center? The cyber NOC is one proposal in a still-to-be-announced cyber-security project under consideration by the Bush administration. Thanks to some enterprising reporting by Caron Carlson and Dennis Fisher, were reporting on some of the details […]

While U.S. companies are continually encouraged to invest in defenses against major IT terror attacks, it is the little terrors of spam that currently take the greatest productivity toll. The spam flood, along with its promises of riches, sexual solicitation, and myriad scams and hoaxes, washes daily through corporate Americas e-mail servers and in-boxes. Accessing […]

Getting the most out of your IP network makes sense. youve spent a lot of money trying to make the network secure, robust and flexible; now is also the time to make it economical. Where should you start after you realize that your IP network can do a lot more than shuttle data about? You […]

When Suns Jon Bosak led the team that developed the first XML spec in 1996, I doubt he envisioned a day when competitors Oracle and Microsoft would become two of the standards champions. In Redmond, nearly every phrase heard in the hallways includes XML used as a noun, verb, adjective and overall magic elixir for […]

Last week, as Bill Gates was delivering an update on Microsofts .Net initiative, the moribund stock market came alive for a rapid rise. Coincidence? Certainly. But that shouldnt stop Gates and company from taking credit for getting the technology industry to stop bemoaning the past and start looking toward the future once again. In Gates […]

Two years ago, almost to the day, I went to the first briefing of .Net. At that time, which seems very long ago now, the dot-com boom was at its peak. Microsoft was increasingly being seen as an also ran, behind the Internet curve and facing a hard-charging Department of Justice intent on breaking up […]

Two years ago, at the high-water mark for the dot-com boom, Microsoft introduced its .Net initiative. On Wednesday, amid the debris of a shattered new economy and with Wall Street looking more like the boulevard of broken dreams, Bill Gates provided an update on where .Net, Microsoft and the technology industry are headed. That update, […]

Grid computing makes sense. The computing horsepower sitting idle most of the day on desktops and in server rooms would, if harnessed, provide all the computing cycles an enterprise needs. But its the harnessing problem that keeps the grid promise from becoming reality. In this weeks eWeek Labs section, we analyze the state of grid […]