Eric Lundquist's Most Recent Posts

IBM unleashes 4k consultants in the Business Intelligence market

The Xconomy mobile conference in Cambridge highlighted some new trends in mobile computing

Pick your tech exec to revive the U.S. auto industry

I think there are five trends that suggest that the big outsourcing wave will wane.

What is the big event in March? Could it be the March madness college basketball playoffs? Well, yes, but it is also AMD's self proclaimed "Virtualization Ecosystem Month."

I don't usually plug vendor webcasts, but this upcoming one from Cassatt looks interesting. If you go to the webcast, let me know if you like it or not.

It will be the tools more than the boxes that makes the difference in virtualized vendor selection.

Congrats to Dave Winer for coming up with a really, really simple explanation of how to set up a server on the Amazon EC2 cloud

I've blogged  before about me being a Skype fan. I was happy when 4.0 came out recently as it was a video-centric rather than audio-centric release.

Now, Skype has come out with a business release which makes it easier to tie Skype into existing (SIP) compliant business phone networks.  Although you are still mostly tethered (or bluetoothed, or maybe Skype enabled Wified) to your computer, in these tough economic times, you could indeed whittle down some of those telecom costs. 

CNN interviewed Gates on the future of education.

What is it about tech execs and guitars? Do they all secretly want to be on the guy on the stage at the concert? I think so.

Use the cloud for a disaster recovery? The price is right.

Rackspace an Rackable don't necessarily spring to mind when you are thinking about virtualization.

I'm a big fan of Flip video. All tech products should be as easy to use. Now that Cisco has paid nearly $600 million for the camera vendor, here are the five to-do items they should consider.

Five great (and somewhat unknown) products IBM would get by buying Sun