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Rob Enderle

August 2010

August 31, 2010

Picking HP’s Next CEO

HP is at a crossroads. Financially it's in very good shape,but Mark Hurd, the recently fired HP CEO, sacrificed employee loyalty and long-term strategic goals. IT Business Edge's Lora Bentley corr... More >

August 27, 2010

Dell vs. HP and the War for 3PAR

A massive battle for a little-known storage vendor  3PAR broke out this week, driven by forward-looking executives at Dell and HP. This is unusual in a world where companies seem overly concerned... More >

August 26, 2010

Qualcomm's View of the Future: Smart Electric Cars, Smartphones and Connected Tablets

Qualcomm, the market leader in cell phone technology, had its financial analyst meeting this week, filled with its vision of the future.   While there was a consumer component anchored by its Skifta... More >

August 23, 2010

HP's Hurd, Dunn and Fiorina Could Learn from Superheroes

The book “The Big Lie” clearly has me thinking about CEOs this week and why they so often fail. (We are also looking at the adverse impact of excess CEO salaries this week.) While reading about t... More >

August 19, 2010

Intel Buys McAfee to Strategically Attack Smartphone, Embedded Markets

In its largest acquisition to date, Intel bought security vendor McAfee this week to aggressively address the emerging embedded and smartphone markets, both of which increasingly are poorly secured... More >

August 16, 2010

HP, Apple and Why Firms Don't Often Do the Right Thing

Last week it was all about Mark Hurd and this week starts off with a lot of focus on HP’s board, with suggestions that the members should step down. IT Business Edge's own Lora Bentley asks whether... More >

August 11, 2010

Hurd Departure Could be Good for HP and Karmic Revenge for Patty Dunn

As more details emerge from inside HP about Mark Hurd’s conduct in recent years, another story is emerging.  One of an executive who had lost touch with reality and was increasingly focused on his ow... More >

August 9, 2010

Was HP's Mark Hurd Set Up or Bitten by the Reality TV Show Bug?

By now you’ve seen the news of Mark Hurd’s (clearly involuntary) resignation from HP and likely seen some of the he-said, she-said, they-said that has followed. The good news for HP is that in an u... More >

August 5, 2010

The Future of the $99 Server and Birth of Reverse Virtualization

Today Marvell started recruiting developers for its Plug computing platform, which is currently consumer-oriented and represents a fundamental rethinking of how you build products. The core product... More >

August 3, 2010

Microsoft vs. Google: Unwinnable Wars and the Importance of Clear Goals

Last week I wrote about Microsoft’s Financial Analyst Meeting. A parallel bit of more important news came out, having to do with documents leaked to and from Wikileaks that showcased the war in Af... More >

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