Rob Enderle

The 5 Essential Traits of Digital Innovators This week, I’m at Microsoft Build 2016, the big developer conference, and I’m fascinated by the change I’m seeing in Microsoft. One of the most interesting things to watch over the last decade has been the impact of open source on Microsoft. This started as almost a war […]

The idea of teleportation has been around for a long time but the concept has proven difficult to move from science fiction into reality. Not the least of which is that it would likely prove deadly. In other words, the person that would emerge at the other end of the process wouldn’t be you; it […]

5 Defining Tech Trends that Will Shape Business This week, Varonis, which specializes in solutions that protect against insider threats, issued a comprehensive report generated from risk assessments the company does over the year. This report pretty much showcased why most companies are breached. It is because they have ineffective security policies and their control […]

5 Ways to Patch the IT/Marketing Disconnect (and Thrive) John Sculley, ex-CEO of Apple and Pepsi, has recently written a book titled ”Moonshot!” No, it has nothing to do with HP’s products of the same name, though it does actually tie to what HP is attempting. Sculley is kind of a hero of mine, for […]

The Human Factor: 5 Security Blunders People Keep Making I was asked to do a presentation on trends for a large number of IT folks. Of course, concepts like hyper-converged computing, analytics, mobile, hybrid cloud, and the move away from passwords (finally) came to mind. But at the time, I also happened to be reading […]

5 Ways to Patch the IT/Marketing Disconnect (and Thrive) This week, I’m reading former Apple CEO John Sculley’s new book “Moonshot!”  It is an interesting read on the topic of business strategy, and one of the things it made me remember was a mistake that Apple made against Microsoft after Sculley left the firm. It’s […]

5 Conversations IT Needs to Have with C-Level Peers A number of interesting comments suggested nicely (thank you), that my piece last week on the Dell/EMC merger was wrong-headed. Those commenters believe, after reading a report in the New York Times with regard to financial performance that, financially, Dell couldn’t pull the merger off. A […]

5 Defining Tech Trends that Will Shape Business Mergers generally fail and large mergers generally fail spectacularly, so I get why many of my peers and members of IT management think the Dell/EMC merger will be a train wreck. They also thought Dell couldn’t be taken private because, generally, for a company like Dell, the […]

5 Security Challenges Facing State and Local Governments in 2016 Last decade, Apple pretty much took the smartphone market from BlackBerry and this month it looks like the FBI may be inadvertently helping BlackBerry take it back. Reactions like this indicate that Apple will need to make moves with IBM to ensure that it doesn’t […]

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2016 As we ramped up to Christmas last year, a new product was catching the market on fire and then catching pretty much everything else on fire: hoverboards that used substandard lithium ion batteries. The hoverboards were eventually pulled from many stores and barred from airplanes. However, from time […]

CES Announces the Most Innovative Tech Products for 2016 Every once in a while, a company comes up with something that is more amazing than the firm actually realizes. I think that was the case with the initial iPod. It was an almost hobby-like Apple product but eventually the market, and Apple, caught on that […]

5 Conversations IT Needs to Have with C-Level Peers In 2015, IBM once again led with the number of patents granted, followed by Samsung and Canon. Google was fifth, Microsoft dropped to tenth, and Apple followed at eleventh. (Microsoft assigned patents to some holding companies, which are designed to form a stronger shared patent troll […]