Rob Enderle

Question: Watson. Answer: What Is a Computer That Will Have Great Impact? If you were with me at the IBM Think Forum this week, you’d likely walk away with a strong “no” to this question. What makes IBM events very different from most vendor events is that much of the content is delivered by IBM […]

Software-Defined Storage: Driving a New Era of the Cloud IBM does a nice show in that it has a good blend of technology and customer advocacy. I’m at IBM’s Enterprise 2014 this week, and it is a fascinating show, not only in content but in the quality of the event. It started for me with […]

Dispelling the Myths and Fears of Converged Infrastructure This week, VCE announced that it was adding a new capability: more flexibility in the Vblock configurations to address a broader set of needs. Given that Vblocks are already praised because they can do almost anything asked of them, the fact that they could be even more […]

Today, Microsoft did the first showcase of the New Windows, or Windows 10. The product is still months off, and it is clear the company thought long and hard about the new name. My personal position on naming is that the only thing everyone agrees on with regard to a new name is that the […]

Technology Strategy No Longer Just an IT Responsibility This is going to be interesting. Today, IBM and Lenovo announced that they’ve gotten through the regulatory hurdles put in front of them and now the companies can move forward with Lenovo’s acquisitions of IBM’s x86 server division. Lenovo and IBM gain from this deal, which will […]

Mobility: How It’s Changing Our Lives As I write, two iPhone/Apple problems are going viral. The first is now being called Bendgate and Bendghazi. The second doesn’t have a cute name yet; it relates to the latest iOS 8 update, which apparently has broken enough phones that it had to be pulled. This update had […]

Six Big Business Intelligence Mistakes I had an interesting chat with Arijit Sengupta, CEO of Beyondcore, this week. Beyondcore is one of the emerging companies that is starting to move the analytics market into the next phase of intelligent systems or artificial intelligence (AI). Sengupta agreed with my earlier piece on IBM’s Watson Analytics, a […]

The Robotic Automation Landscape of Today and Tomorrow This has been a busy month, with events from Intel, NVIDIA and now Qualcomm each providing their vision of the future. I can’t talk about the NVIDIA event yet, but this week I’m with Qualcomm and what they are talking about is fascinating. Intel sees tablets and […]

Four Steps to Ensure Your Big Data Investment Pays Off Think back to when the Internet was young. Everyone and their brother agreed that a search offering was important, but none were profitable. Google actually arrived late to the game with a fraction of the resources and owned the entire market because it figured out […]

Robotics: Humans Need Not Apply In the late 1970s, we had computers that we could work with in schools and businesses, but the idea of a computer in our homes or one that could provide for our personal needs, outside of increasingly portable calculators, was off into the future. Then two kids, Steve Jobs and […]

Why the Mobile ‘Pocket Office’ Is Inevitable and Good for Business Intel’s new CEO Brian Krzanich brought his “A” game to San Francisco this week when he presented Intel’s current and coming products at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF). Close by, Apple was doing its launch of two phones, a payment service, and the long-anticipated […]

Top Managed Service Provider Trends and Challenges I was at a Dell launch this week and listened to Kirk Schell walk us through Dell’s recent successes, introduce a broad series of products, and talk about some of Dell’s more interesting initiatives. Dell is the largest company I’ve ever personally covered going private and the impact […]