Rob Enderle

As Consumer Reports is not recommending purchase of Surface laptops and tablets, I want to focus on the need for more timely and accurate research and how it can be achieved in consumer and enterprise environments. Microsoft Surface In 2015, there was an issue with the Surface line that resulted in painful problems and high […]

Virtual reality (VR) is having issues, but augmented reality (AR) seems to be gaining a following in business. Ever since Google launched Google Glass and the name “Glasshole” was created, I’ve had my doubts about the security of the related solutions. Having a wireless camera on someone’s head without a huge focus on security would […]

Google has fired the employee who wrote a manifesto critical of Google management, taking a largely untenable sexist position. Firing him was largely a mistake, in my view, because that act likely didn’t do anything but drive related positions underground. This is far from a simple issue that can be fixed with a termination. There […]

Last night, IBM made an interesting announcement. IBM Labs had come up with a new software method to massively reduce the increased inefficiencies when adding GPUs to a deep learning process. Using a highly tuned combination of NVLink and InfiniBand, they effectively took what was a wall and turned it into a big door. This […]

When I read that hackers had taken over a terabyte of movies and other files from HBO, putting one of its most valuable properties, Game of Thrones, at risk, I wondered: How do you not notice that suddenly over a terabyte of data connected to highly confidential properties is being siphoned out of a company? […]

AMD had a bit of a party at SIGGRAPH and I flew down to LA to share in the festivities of what was to be a processor and graphics card launch bash. Well, they did showcase the new Threadripper CPU and graphics (both consumer and professional) solutions, but the most interesting thing came at the […]

This week, I had another presentation from a tech vendor who was presenting a new tool targeted at customers who wanted to present their products in a more interesting and successful manner. They argued they had deep skills in the technology, that it would improve close rates and customer interest, and that it would positively […]

As we move from analytics to deep learning and eventually to AI, there is a growing concern that we aren’t focused enough on assuring the accuracy of the results. The efforts seem more focused on collecting lots of data than on assuring the validity of the process. The effort can be severely compromised in three […]

I have a book suggestion for existing or upcoming executives to read this summer: Black Box Thinking. It compares why safety has improved massively on airlines, but in industries like health care, mistakes are so prevalent that if you knew the statistics, you’d never go into a hospital again. In fact, since I now suddenly […]

I spent last weekend at the Formula E races in New York. It is an interesting series for many reasons, not the least of which is the fact that the cars are electric. But this type of race really doesn’t showcase electrics in the best light. For instance, as anybody who has ever tracked a […]

While it is a gradual process, quarter over quarter, Dell appears to be gaining share over Panasonic in the hardened PC space. What makes this interesting is that Panasonic is to hardened PCs what Apple used to be to MP3 players with the iPod. Panasonic is not only massively dominant, it historically took on all […]

This month, anything that doesn’t have me looking up to see if North Korea has lobbed a missile at the West Coast is a positive event. But this week, Intel responded to AMD’s Epyc launch with an epic launch of its own: the Purley version of its Xeon processor architecture. It clearly has come to […]