Rob Enderle

I’m fascinated by litigation, largely because much of it isn’t necessary and occurs because one side or the other is delusional. Two sides go in, both believing they can’t lose, and one side comes out the winner. Since you rarely actually go to court, the entire effort becomes an expensive form of negotiation, with negotiators […]

While we spend a lot of time on the analytical parts of artificial intelligence (AI) systems, we don’t spend nearly enough time on ensuring that the data they work from is accurate and complete. Now, with the massive influx of fake news, the accuracy problem should be far more concerning than it has been. This […]

Airlines have recently stopped bad mouthing the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 on every flight because all of those devices, which were prone to catching fire, appeared to be out of the market. Then Samsung, in its infinite desire to do stupid things, started to sell refurbished Note 7s. I expect that won’t end well. The […]

HP Inc. is the only company with significant positions on both PCs and printers; it dominates the printer market and is ranked second in PCs. Even though it looked like it was initially set up to fail, apparently, the executive staff didn’t get that memo and on most financial metrics, it is growing. This is […]

I’m fascinated by HP Inc., largely because it shouldn’t have been successful. At the start, it was as if CEO Dion Weisler had been set up to fail. When HP split into HPE and HP Inc., HPE got all the growing businesses and HP Inc. got the declining ones and virtually all of the debt. […]

IBM, for most of the time I’ve known and worked for the company, was defined by three pillars: hardware, software and services. For much of the last decade, IBM was flipping the priority to put software first, but those three pillars largely defined the company. Well, at IBM Interconnect last week, I really got the […]

I’m at IBM InterConnect 2017 this week and CEO Ginni Rometty is doing the second day keynote. She was a day late because she was opening IBM’s 20th Cloud Data Center in China, likely the most important one for growth that they will have. What I think is fascinating about Rometty is how much she […]

This week, I’m at IBM Interconnect 2017 and, right off the top, they made a really interesting announcement concerning Blockchain. Typically, we connect Blockchain to Bitcoin, but the digital currency may be the least interesting part of this technology that is basically designed to provide secure private transactions. The goal of this joint effort between […]

One of the things I found really annoying when I worked under Louis Gerstner at IBM was his response to the question of why the company didn’t use its most advanced technology. IBM, for the most part, does this today, but back then, his response was “would you rather I used this for our needs […]

Intel just bought Mobileye, an Israeli company that leads its market with a camera-based computer vision solution. Intel was a bit late to the game with regard to autonomous cars. It had been working with car makers on in-car entertainment and an advanced headlight system that can see through snow and rain which, sadly has […]

I was at the NVIDIA TX2 launch earlier this week, which was a showcase for partners bringing to market AI-enhanced products. The Jetson platform is NVIDIA’s early attempt to produce in volume low-powered, relatively affordable AI brains to be used in virtually anything that needs one. This is part of an initiative to push intelligence […]

I hate cubicles with a passion and I know I’m not the only one. The guy who came up with the idea of the cubicle went to his grave hating them worse than I do. They were supposed to be emergency office space, something to be used as a result of a crisis or disaster, […]