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March 16, 2010

What I Learned from the IT Business Edge Midmarket CIO Forum

I’ve spent the first part of this week at the ITBE Midmarket CIO Forum and I’ve been learning a lot.  We had CIOs from all over the country here. In chatting with a number of them, I learned a great ... More >

March 15, 2010

Windows 7 Deployment Best Practices

  This week, I and my colleagues are at the IT Business Edge Midmarket CIO Summit, where we are focusing on the needs and concerns of CIOs in mid-sized businesses and government organizations. I... More >

March 11, 2010

EMC vs. Google: There Should be No Competition

I’m often fascinated by battles between mismatched companies.  Either firms that are vastly different in size and power (Netscape-Microsoft for instance), or in this case, companies that are vastly d... More >

Capacity Utilization Initiatives Fuel Growth in Virtualization

This research report focuses on the types of technology IT executives are currently using to manage their capacity utilization needs, the key factors used for evaluating capacity utilization solutions, and the importance that virtualization technologies play in capacity utilization initiatives.

Management Excellence: Leveraging Technology and Techniques

This white paper describes the techniques and technologies that organizations should master on their way to management excellence.

March 8, 2010

The Slow Death of the PC: Still Waiting for a Viable Challenger

The PC is clearly going through changes. Apple is surging and spent the last several years distancing itself from the idea (and name) of PC. Its coming iPad is more appliance-like and more dependent ... More >

March 4, 2010

Novell for Sale: Another SCO Moment Coming?

There is a $1 billion offer on the table to buy Novell from Elliott Associates . The company’s financial performance doesn’t support this kind of price (it is 115 percent over the value of Novell as... More >

March 1, 2010

Apple and the Ethical/Business Problems of Child Labor and Other Unsavory Practices

Apple seems to be having supplier problems.   Last week Wintek, one of Apple’s suppliers, was reported to have been using a chemical, n-hexane, which had poisoned 49 workers . This week there i... More >

February 26, 2010

Are Employees Getting Ready for an Apple-Led Revolt?

I’m looking at a survey by enterprise mobility services vendor iPass that fomed the basis of a column by Sam Diaz over at ZDnet in which iPass surveyed around 1,000 mobile workers who make up abo... More >

February 22, 2010

A Tale of Two Windows 7 Deployments: Security, Hardware Lifecycle, Support Benefits

In preparation for the MidMarket CIO Forum next month, we are collecting case studies on successful projects.  Since I’m doing the talk on Windows 7 deployments, I’m collecting information on several... More >

February 19, 2010

The Microsoft Whoops Phone and iPad: The Danger of Naming

I have a rule about product naming and, since I came up with it, I call in the Enderle Rule (creative, huh?). That rule is: “When it comes to product naming, the only thing everyone will agree on i... More >

February 15, 2010

Windows Phone 7 Series: The Hard Stuff Is Yet to Come

In a smartphone world that was increasingly defined by Apple and Apple clones, Microsoft needed to step out.  It could have, as it initially did with Windows, create an Apple clone that was better th... More >

February 11, 2010

Unified Communications Case Study: 50 Percent Savings in Midmarket Example

In preparation for our MidMarket CIO IT Forum next month, we are collecting case studies on successful projects. This one is on Tridel , a Canadian midmarket builder of condominiums. It reported sav... More >

February 8, 2010

IBM Power7 and Apple's ARM A4: The Advantages of Having Your Own Processor

A lot of things change in a decade. At the end of the '90s, it seemed clear that Intel's Itanium was going to dominate the UNIX world and that the proprietary processors would give way to the inevi... More >

February 4, 2010

How iPad Potentially Drives Employee PC Ownership Trend

The iPad, as with all Apple products, isn’t really focused on business use yet. Much like the iPhone, it will find its way into corporations through employees who buy them, though.   Over at our... More >

February 2, 2010

Can Google or Microsoft Compete with the iPad?

Even with Apple’s success with the iPhone, success with the iPad isn’t a given . The company has left a lot of openings with its first-generation product, which has clear limitations . This sugge... More >

January 28, 2010

Snorkel (Sun + Oracle) vs. IBM: The Enterprise Battle of This Decade?

In some ways Oracle, by acquiring Sun, has created a company that on paper looks very similar to the direction that IBM was going in the 1960s but with software, not hardware, in the lead. However, t... More >