Rob Enderle

IT Industry Forecast: What to Expect in 2015 I was asked, as we approach the end of the year, to talk about how the roles for an industry analyst had changed since I started and it is kind of amazing. In a strange way, those working at the large firms are more constrained and limited […]

IT Industry Forecast: What to Expect in 2015 HP is a fascinating company, but mostly from the outside. Given the number of layoffs and executive changes the firm has enjoyed over the years, I know far more ex-HP folks than actual HP employees now. Meg Whitman took over the company after a failed run for […]

IT Industry Forecast: What to Expect in 2015 As BlackBerry brings to market its new Classic, I think it is interesting to look back and review what the firm has accomplished. BlackBerry represents one of the most interesting turnarounds because, like Apple in the late 1990s, the firm had been almost given up for dead. […]

Five Myths Holding Your Security Program Back It is fascinating to watch a new class of software be born. This doesn’t seem to happen that often anymore, but every once in a while a customer or a vendor discovers a gap in the current offerings and fills that gap with something we have never seen […]

2015 Tech Trends: A Critical Crossroad for IT Dell and Red Hat decided to form an alliance to address the mid-market with a solution based on OpenStack, a market that they felt the other big players left unserved. Dell was one of the founding members of OpenStack and I had a chance to interview Dell […]

How the Internet of Things Will Change Our Lives This week is Intel’s coming-out party for its consolidated Internet of Things effort. As you might expect, it is a comprehensive set of technologies. I say technologies because Intel is a parts vendor, not a solutions vendor, but with acquisitions like Wind River and McAfee, it […]

Shopping Simplified: 15 Tech Gifts for $50 and Under Recently, I was at Dell’s Impressive Cloud Client Reviewers’ Day in the new Silicon Valley offices. There was a bit of talk about thin-client solutions. Right now, only two companies can truly go end-to-end with thin-client architecture: HP and Dell. With HP spinning off its PC […]

How the Internet of Things Will Change Our Lives Leading with an estimated 3x available bandwidth improvement, Qualcomm’s quiet announcement this week of MU-MIMO with VIVE represents one of the most important announcements for users and the Internet of Things that has yet occurred. I’ve been following this technology as it came to market and […]

Considerations for Maintaining Critical Business Continuity When I was briefed on BMC’s annual Mainframe Research Results, the largest survey on opinions surrounding the mainframe that I know of, I thought about how it showcases a couple of very interesting contradictions. The biggest is that while respondents who are using mainframes treat them as strategic assets […]

Holiday Madness: Five Ways Managers Can Help Employees and the Business As we ramp down here in the U.S. for one of our most important holidays, the time when we give thanks, I think it is time for us to take a moment and give thanks to the folks who have our backs throughout the […]

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2015 Our propensity to repeat mistakes fascinates me. Back in the 1980s, when PC companies started appearing, the existing technology companies didn’t see the threat. By the time they entered the market, it was largely too late. Even IBM had to eventually leave the market, unable to compete. In […]

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2015 A decade ago, if I’d even suggested that Microsoft would have been at risk from an Apple/IBM partnership and a dot-com company, folks would have laughed me out of the room. Back then, Microsoft had better than 95 percent of the desktop, the browser market, and was dominant […]