Rob Enderle

State of IT 2015: Mid-Year Check-In Executing a turnaround is a very unique skill and most executives don’t have it. That’s why so many turnarounds fail and either take the company down with them or force a sale to another firm that might be able to do better. Some of these things are just painful […]

I’m a big fan of the NVIDIA GRID effort, largely because it places the performance where I think it always should have been, where it can be better managed and protected. I started out in the mainframe age and while there were huge parts of that world I truly hated, the parts we lost when […]

Black Hat 2015: 5 Takeaways on Mobile App Security Awhile back, BlackBerry announced the acquisition of WatchDox, a secure collaboration platform that is apparently classified as “visionary” by the Gartner Group. This week, it announced BlackBerry integration and expanded the multi-OS range of the offering, which now covers Samsung KNOX, Android for Work, and Secure […]

Five Reasons Email Remains Dominant Curved TVs are still pretty rare and curved monitors even more so. You’d think that this trend would be focused on entertainment and, in the case of monitors, gamers, but Dell recently unveiled a 34” professional curved monitor, and there is method behind the madness. It suggests there is a […]

Robotics Take Center Stage: Ten New Hardware Startups This week I’m at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) and it’s an incredibly exciting event. It has an energy that I haven’t seen in a long time and each floor has amazing demonstrations: sensor-equipped BMX bikes doing stunts on ramps, amazing gaming PCs and race driving simulators, 3D […]

Five Point Checklist for Developing Successful Workforce Strategies This week, the New York Times came out with a scathing report on the culture and employee environment inside Amazon. It shouldn’t have been a surprise to CEO Jeff Bezos, because Amazon uses forced ranking as a management method and similar reports have come out about other […]

Nine Email Scandals that Underscore the Need for Proper Archiving Hillary Clinton is spreading a dangerous belief in her defense of a private email server. Her defense upon the discovery of classified material that was shared with people who didn’t have the appropriate credentials was that the information wasn’t classified at the time. This creates […]

Getting Ahead of Your Organization’s IT Skills Gap Intel released its diversity report this week and it has made some impressive progress in improving the mix of minorities in the firm. It clearly showcases that if a tech company wants to focus on diversity it can make progress; however, since the underlying problem of not […]

Five Trends Shaping the Future of IT My Monday afternoon went to hell when Google announced it was splitting the firm up under a new company named Alphabet. This immediately proved one of the rules I’ve consistently shared: “The only thing everyone will agree with on a new name is that the person who came […]

Five Trends Shaping the Future of IT This week, we saw yet another big partnership announcement, and I got what is a common question. How do you tell if the partnership or consortium is worth anything? Most seem to experience their full value when the announcement is made and don’t go anyplace after that. The […]

The Case for ‘Craft IT’ I ran into an interesting article in the Harvard Business Review this week that points to what may be a huge mistake management and IT are regularly making: Holding IT responsible for data quality. The author, Thomas C. Redman, wrote back in 2012 that you need to get responsibility for […]

This Windows 10 launch feels like the launch that wasn’t a launch. Today, the OS is available to everyone for free. Of course, it seems kind of anti-climactic to me because I’ve been running this OS for around a year now. Other versions of Windows are but dim memories and even though this OS is […]