Rob Enderle

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2016 Last week, I wrote about the back story that was likely driving EMC and Dell together. This included the need for a CEO who could take EMC forward, better product breadth and depth, a removal of breakup pressure for EMC, a stronger enterprise channel that would allow the […]

Today the Wall Street Journal and other outlets broke the speculation that Dell and EMC were looking to merge. I don’t think people get how incredibly powerful this would be or how difficult. However, this would clearly solve huge problems that both companies are facing, and unique synergies and relationships make this whole effort, if […]

I’m at the Microsoft Devices Launch this week and there is a huge amount of anticipation for what will be announced. This is CEO Satya Nadella’s first big device launch and the hope is that he will do what Steve Ballmer couldn’t: Build excitement on Windows hardware. The show opened with stats that indicated 110 […]

Five Trends Shaping the Future of IT This week is the second anniversary for OpenPOWER, and it has made huge strides, based on the presentation it just shared with us. We often drop down and talk about technology in terms of speeds and feeds, with the inherent assumption that the best part wins. But that […]

Black Hat 2015: 5 Takeaways on Mobile App Security BlackBerry just announced it would be releasing a new slider phone running Android. It has been working for some time with Samsung to create a way to secure the Android platform, which up till now has been the most vulnerable, and with partners like Qualcomm, which […]

State of IT 2015: Mid-Year Check-In In a patent case, the Markman hearing is one of the most important, and BMC just won one against ServiceNow. What this showcases is a pattern of behavior in ServiceNow that appears to put customers at risk and includes a mismatch of litigation skills against the exposure. However, the […]

Tips for Increasing Customer Loyalty in the ‘Age of Experience’ The Wall Street Journal ran an interesting story about how Apple creates a “happy trap” with its products so that once people buy-in to the Apple eco-system, they can’t move out without an acceptable amount of pain. This is called a lock-in strategy. IBM’s dominance […]

State of IT 2015: Mid-Year Check-In One of the sharp contrasts we can draw this week is between BMC and HP. In a weird way, BMC looks a lot like it may be what HP’s board wanted: a software pure-play. But BMC has around 7,000 employees, and HP has around 300,000. This week, HP announced […]

Beware the Data Collectors for They Are Us: Privacy and Big Data Today, we often take for granted the use of digital communications in general, and email in particular. Most of the systems currently in place are based on what we knew about technology and security back in the 1990s, but things have changed a […]

Eight Critical Factors for Business Success It is almost painful to watch the U.S. presidential primary process right now. But I am in fact watching, and as a consultant, I’ve noticed that both of the current front runners are demonstrating horrible personal traits that can be company killers in senior management, let alone in the […]

The Impact of Mobility on the Enterprise BlackBerry and Good Technology announced an unusual type of merger this week. BlackBerry is evolving into a software/services company and it has increasingly been fighting with Good Technology, which is in the same space. Between the companies, there is a lot of product overlap, but the resources both […]

How Windows 10 Will Benefit the Mobile Enterprise Right now the fight for the next business tablet is between Apple, which has the unofficial lead largely thanks to bring your own device, or BYOD, and Microsoft Surface, the most successful Windows-based tablet. Apple has been aggressively signing major partners, first with IBM and most recently […]