Rob Enderle

How the Internet of Things Will Change Our Lives In the old Palm headquarters in Silicon Valley and just down the block from Echelon, the company that was the leader in enterprise Internet of Things (IoT) before we even had the acronym, Dell took up the “connect the world” rally cry, with Intel close by […]

Eight Habits of Effective Critical Thinkers This week I’m at BlackBerry’s analyst event in San Francisco. A lot has changed over the last couple of years. The company has moved from a cash burn rate measured in the low billions to one in the low millions, and it is no longer in danger of going […]

Eight Habits of Effective Critical Thinkers Last week, I wrote about how Dell is beating HP on message. The trust aspect of this really had me thinking over the weekend. One of the things that sets companies like Dell and BMC apart, because they are private, is that their CEOs have more time to listen […]

Third-Quarter IT Reality Check — Budgets, Hiring, Trends I’m at Dell World this week and I’m struck by the differences between HP and Dell, largely because in most of my meetings, the Dell executives are methodically pointing them out. What I find fascinating is that this feels like a very political process – one focused […]

Third-Quarter IT Reality Check – Budgets, Hiring, Trends I’m at Dell World, where Michael Dell is doing the opening press keynote. He is having a good year. He started by pointing out that he isn’t splitting his company because that type of move isn’t driven by customers. He pointed out that his company’s PC market […]

Seven Steps to an Effective ITSM Strategy I’m at EMC’s annual analyst event this week and I think we are seeing the emergence of the next generation of IT companies. I think of it in a similar way to what happened on the PC side when Dell came to market. Before Dell, you spent a […]

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2015 This week I’m in lovely Boston, where folks are trying to convince me it is unseasonably warm, and yet I’m freezing the thing I sit on off. EMC is a fascinating company because I think its market-leading innovation isn’t really in product — it is in organizational structure […]

Fifty Start-Ups Disrupting Their Industries VCE was the most successful joint venture I’ve ever seen. Growing at over 50 percent year over year, it has been cutting a broad swath through the IT industry, despite the fact that most folks didn’t think its solution could work, even after customer after customer repeatedly testified that it […]

Five Myths Holding Your Security Program Back Microsoft just kicked client side security up a huge notch for Windows 10. Boy, how things have changed. Over a decade ago, the young kids who were forming Google were gleefully pointing out how unsecure Windows is, and here we are, a little over a decade later. Android […]

Top Managed Service Provider Trends and Challenges Big news came out this week on IBM. Most of IBM’s traditional businesses are down, in terms of net income but, for the most part, down in the low single digits. Most of IBM’s new initiatives are up in aggregate, in net income, in the low double digits. […]

Fifty Start-Ups Disrupting Their Industries The second day of a conference like this is for reflection on what we’ve learned and tying down the answers to questions from day one at BMC Engage. On this day we had a presentation from BMC’s CEO Bob Beauchamp followed by a panel of BMC partners. In many ways, […]

Six Key Steps to Build a Successful Digital Business I’m starting to feel like a coast-to-coast ping pong ball because this week I am in Orlando at BMC Engage 2014. BMC is undergoing a transformation that, to a certain extent, mirrors the transformation that IT itself is undergoing. It is shifting from being a firm […]