Rob Enderle

Programs for building affinity between a brand and a customer aren’t uncommon. Enterprise vendors have events, both large and small, that talk about technology but are often mostly focused on just getting to know customers and making them love the brand. One of the few companies that seem to get this right is EMC, which […]

A number of coming technologies will undoubtedly change the world as we know it. Two came to light last week while I was trying, and failing, to enjoy an infrequent vacation. One is a power storage technology that has high capacity and doesn’t catch fire or explode like lithium ion batteries. The other, and far […]

Zen is the code name for AMD’s coming processor for PCs and servers. What makes it particularly interesting is that it was redesigned from scratch to take into account current workloads, with an architecture that should allow it to compete effectively with two-socket solutions using a single socket. This should provide a number of advantages, […]

Building High-Growth IT: 5 Things to Know Now I’m not a huge fan of vendor events, largely because I go to a lot of them and, after a wave of them, I tend to be a homesick mess. That isn’t true of IBM Edge, however, because this event tends to embody much of what makes […]

This week, Dell and EMC announced they were closing the merger of Dell and EMC on September 7. The last merger of this scale I covered in depth was that of HP and Compaq, and I spent much of the time trying to talk Compaq into running away. The two merger efforts differ like night […]

We live in a very strange technology age. I say very strange because we tend to get excited about new technologies long before they are ready. Then some, like 3D, that were supposed to take over the world, never do (or at least haven’t yet). Others that are so deeply imbedded we’ll call obsolete on […]

The 5 Essential Traits of Digital Innovators I’ve been in the technology segment for most of my life and take pride in the fact that I’ve touched and mostly improved a wide range of products. It is hard to watch the attacks on Leslie Jones and not feel like far too many people are corrupting […]

HP Inc., the version of HP that sells personal computers, tablets and printers, reported strong results this quarter, but behind these results are three key elements. First, the firm has a relatively stable and experienced executive team. Second, it is very focused on a limited number of segments. And third, it appears to be out-marketing […]

I’ve flown home from Intel’s Developer Forum and one of the things that really had me thinking was a chat I had with Achin Bhowmilk, Ph.D., who is likely one of the smartest guys I know. He runs the group at Intel that has the RealSense camera and is working on its Merged Reality effort. […]

CES Announces the Most Innovative Tech Products for 2016 I’m at IDF, the Intel Developer Forum, this week and, like most events of this type, it started with some upbeat music. Unlike most events of this type, however, the music was created with virtual instruments. Other than two physical turntables, the rest of the instruments […]

2016 Business Communications: Changing the Way We Work We all live on our cell phones now, and that brings more changes every day. Increasingly, folks are pulling the landlines out of their homes, as they don’t need them anymore. But businesses continue to deploy and use desktop phones. One of the reasons for this during […]

Cyber Crime Report Finds Old Breaches Led to New Breaches Last year’s Ponemon’s Varonis-sponsored security study had users and IT practitioners agreeing that managing confidential information was inadequate at their organizations. Since then, the number and depth of attacks have significantly increased. Let’s look as the study results and see how badly we are screwed. […]