Rob Enderle

Top Seven Priorities for IT in 2015 Last week, I wrote about IBM’s OpenPOWER initiative and how it was attempting to recreate the Linux revolution, on hardware. I pointed out that Intel isn’t the problem that folks thought Microsoft was in the 1990s and that while a lot of software resources in companies could be […]

Top Trends Driving the Data Center in 2015 I attended the OpenPOWER Summit this week, which was held in conjunction with the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference (GTC). This event is part of IBM’s huge effort to provide an alternative to x86 on servers and it is using a strategy similar to what worked against Microsoft […]

Top Trends Driving the Data Center in 2015 Strangely, I’m suddenly writing more about thin client computing this year than I did when thin client computing was the poster child of Oracle and Sun’s diabolical plan to take over the desktop, almost two decades ago. Their strategy was flawed, however, because they focused on lowering […]

Top Trends Driving the Data Center in 2015 VCE and the Vblock truly fascinate me. I’ve really never seen a product where so many people who have never used it are saying it can’t work, while the reports from people who have deployed it are so glowing. It almost feels like some screwy tech version […]

The Evolution of the CIO I spent part of my afternoon on Tuesday chatting with an IT manager and an internal audit manager at a large U.S. stock brokerage about how they had successfully implemented a document security solution. This call was set up by data protection vendor Varonis, which I’ve become somewhat fascinated with […]

Tips for Surviving the Angry Office This week as I sat through a presentation from Intel on its gaming effort and a game called  Nevermind, I thought that perhaps this game could help make someone a better executive—or at least one that could live longer. This game uses Intel’s RealSense camera to tie game play […]

Top Seven Priorities for IT in 2015 This week, I’m taking time off from enterprise technology to hang out at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. A number of interesting announcements and events occurred at the show but one that really caught my eye was the announcement of the NVIDIA Shield Gaming Console.  We’ve […]

Seven Must-Have Features for Great Mobile Apps This week, a smartphone operating system report was issued by IDC that showcased that even though Microsoft sold more Windows phones last year, currently shipping “only” 35M a year, it was the junior player in a massive mobile market. This is still more smartphones than Apple sold in […]

Tips for Securing Data in a Mobile World Android has a really lousy security reputation. It is almost as if Google looked at all the grief Microsoft got in the late ‘90s with regard to not taking security seriously enough and envied that attention. This has created a significant problem in a BYOD world where […]

Top Trends Driving the Data Center in 2015 One of the things that’s difficult to determine about Dell now that it is private is how well the company is really doing. One of the indicators that it is generating solid profits is that the company now has the discretionary income to create a lab, which […]

Security Lessons Learned from 2014: The Year of the Mega Breaches At what point does your own government cross the line and become an evil state? This is what crossed my mind when I read the latest Kaspersky report on the Equation Group, which comes across like the bad guy in a current-generation James Bond […]

Eight Habits of Effective Critical Thinkers A few years back, I was impressed with how much work EMC had done on customer tracking as part of its loyalty and quality programs. While you’d think these efforts would have pissed off the customers, these customers were lining up to ask EMC to share these tools. This […]