Rob Enderle

Five Ways Unified Communications Keeps Pace with Your Business Back in the 1990s, we complained vigorously about Microsoft’s dominance and how the company wasn’t responsive to our needs. Now a decade and a half later, Microsoft isn’t as dominant and while it has become more responsive, we are up to our armpits with vendors like […]

This morning, I read the news that Anthem Insurance had a massive data breach and that Amy Pascal, who led Sony pictures as co-chairman, was stepping down as a result of Sony’s breach. I’d just been sent a Varonis study, written by the Ponemon Institute. “Corporate Data: A Protected Asset or a Ticking Time Bomb?” […]

Eight Critical Factors for Business Success Basically, VCE announced today the beginning of a new era for the project, one with more choice. I’ve been fascinated with VCE and the Vblock concept since it launched, largely because a decade earlier Microsoft had presented the concept of a data center in a box as the future. […]

Six Trends Shaping the Data Center in 2015 This week, I’m at the coming out party for Lenovo’s server unit, Lenovo Enterprise Product Group, which was recently acquired from IBM. This reminds me of the first meeting I had with the ThinkPad group after Lenovo had gained control of the PC company: The executives acted […]

The Eighteen Best Android Apps of 2014 Strangely, I think the Application/Content Neutrality Proposal from BlackBerry, modified so that it wouldn’t unfairly burden small developers, would actually benefit the dominant companies in the long term more than they realize. But short term, there is no doubt they’d tend to fight it because it increases near-term […]

Top 10 Technology Trends for 2015 I’ve been one of the Windows launch analysts since Windows 95 and I’ve seen some, well, one, wonderful high, some relatively problem-free but unexciting launches, and a number of absolute disasters. The Windows 10 launch has the potential to be much more like Windows 95 than all of these. […]

IT Industry Forecast: What to Expect in 2015 Windows 10 is really the first proof point that we are looking at a very different Microsoft. I wrote earlier that Windows 10 represented a flip to a more marketing-driven model, one that designs products based on what folks want to buy, rather than what engineers want […]

Eight Ways BYOD Is Transforming IT What makes Apple stand out in the consumer electronics space is that it owns more of the specification and core technology connected with its iProducts than anyone else. This means it can control and assure the user experience better than anyone else, and by doing so, can both maintain […]

The Evolution of the CIO BMC just hired Phil Harris out of Cisco to be its new CTO. I work with a number of CTOs in a variety of firms and have come to develop a sense for the ones that will work out and those that won’t. I also had a chance to interview […]

Eleven Gadget Gifts for Travelers The Consumer Electronics Show is really all about consumer products, of course, but a lot of the companies had enterprise offerings at the show, anyway. Of the vendors I visited (there is no way any human can visit them all as this show is the biggest in Las Vegas and […]

Top 10 Technology Trends for 2015 I’m at CES 2015 this week and there is actually a surprising amount if IT stuff being presented at the show. I’ll talk about that in my next post, but today I want to start with my impressions of what undeniably was the best vendor keynote at CES I’ve […]

As we ended 2014, I was made aware of the fact that ex-HP CEO Carly Fiorina may have plans to run for president on the Republican ticket in 2106. Now, you may be thinking that you have been celebrating too much this week and this entire post is simply the hallucination that resulted. No such […]