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Rob Enderle

February 2012

February 29, 2012

Survey: Cyber Risks Ignored by Boards Could Contribute to National Catastrophe

Priorities are a nasty thing and often executives and boards can be so overwhelmed with tactical problems tied to revenue generation, customer acquisition and retention and new products that they sim... More >

February 27, 2012

Dell Surprises with Strong Customer Testimonials and Partnerships (Best Practice)

Dell had a coming-out party for its new solutions for business and government in San Francisco, which it had been building both organically and through acquisitions. To showcase the progress it has... More >

February 23, 2012

OnLive vs. Citrix: The Battle for the Virtual Desktop

Citrix is the dominant provider of virtual desktop technology. However, it is generally used not to provide the complete desktop but as a host to applications that, for whatever reason, IT doesn’t w... More >

February 20, 2012

Google Arrogance Squared: The Company Killer

Back in the mid-90s, soon after I’d started as an analyst for the Giga Information Group (since acquired by Forrester), I wrote a paper on Microsoft arrogance and how it likely would lead to a set of... More >

February 15, 2012

Margin Protection Is Behind Cisco's Late Shot at Microsoft-Skype Acquisition

With Microsoft's acquisition of Skype approved by the European Commission last October and officially closed in the same month, it came as a bit of a surprise that Cisco decided to move against it.... More >

February 13, 2012

Cisco Blade Failure Showcases Risks with New Segment Players

Last week, Cisco reported a major component failure with its new suicidal server blades . Evidently, the company tried a software fix first and another server flamed out after the patch, so it decid... More >

February 9, 2012

Microsoft Fleshes out Windows on ARM: The iPad Is Obsolete?

Microsoft’s Steven Sinofsky announced Windows on ARM (WOA) in a blog today and the word “disruptive” is hardly adequate. Other than the fact that Microsoft needs some serious work on naming, isn’t ... More >

February 7, 2012

EMC's Thunder and Lightning Obsolesces Oracle

The interesting thing about EMC's new flash storage technologies named "Lightning" and "Thunder" is that they likely make all large-scale databases obsolete from a performance perspective. That was... More >

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