Rob Enderle

Security isn’t fun. There is no better way to say this. I don’t care if you are working as a security guard, bodyguard, or defending against cyberattacks, the job is mostly dreadfully dull and when it gets exciting it is likely because you’ve screwed up or are in the wrong place at the wrong time. […]

I’m not a fan of cruise lines, largely because I hate long lines and the idea of being captured with sub-par service with no place to go except for a long swim in the ocean. However, after hearing Royal Caribbean cruise lines speak at the Cisco Live analyst event last week, I’m wondering if I […]

Cisco is generally credited with driving the concept of the Internet of Things (IoT), even though it was Carnegie Mellon back in 1982 that first conceptualized the idea. I’m still at Cisco’s big analyst event this week and was fascinated by a survey shared on stage. Apparently, 74 percent of the survey’s respondents have indicated […]

I’m at Cisco Live, the big customer show, this week. One of the frustrating things about events in Los Vegas for me is that generally, surrounded by some of the best entertainers and stage craft in the world, they suck. At Cisco Live, they actually used, at least in the opening, the kind of production […]

Lenovo had a huge event this week where it showcased the power of not only an impressive multi-national manufacturing capability but the benefit of hiring one of the most experienced Intel executives in this segment, Kirk Skaugen, president of the Data Center Group.  His movement into Lenovo was in itself fascinating because, given his pedigree, […]

This week, I’m jumping between events. The first one is being held by Cisco, which is launching something called “intent-based networking solutions,” effectively a smart network platform. The company is defining this new class of intelligent network, which can determine the intent of an organization with regard to the network, understand the context of what […]

Uber just announced sweeping changes, including top executive changes in the company. The female engineer who first made us aware of how bad things were for women in Uber has come forward now that Uber has released a plan and said that what Uber is doing has more to do with “optics” than making real […]

Uber is imploding. Everything from massive financial losses to a culture of harassment ensnaring its number-two executive, to an IP theft lawsuit with Google, and increasing problems with drivers is well covered. But how could a company go so far off the rails? I think it comes down to a new mentality with young adults […]

I watched the James Comey Senate testimony along with the rest of the country and it hit a chord. Like a lot of you, I’ve worked for people that have misbehaved and had trouble telling the truth. Several were impressively abusive. One would have fit most of our definitions of a crook. Comey’s approach of […]

I think Elon Musk made a mistake leaving President Trump’s Advisory Board and, in doing so, created a teachable moment. I sit on a number of advisory boards and one of the things you have to get through your head is that, on an advisory board, you get influence but you don’t operational power. You […]

We are approaching a critical part of the conversion to 5G. T-Mobile has jumped out aggressively, promoting its belief that it will get there first, and Qualcomm has been moving the bar with relation to both wireless ends, but the part we don’t talk about much is the massive effect this will have on the […]

Back in the late 1990s, the then IBM PC Company was creating a lot of very novel PCs as it attempted to differentiate from a market largely defined by beige desktop and laptop PCs that looked bad and worked worse. One of the most interesting ideas was that of a Modular PC. This basically put […]