Rob Enderle

Six Key Steps to Build a Successful Digital Business Of course not, never, absolutely not. But I’ve heard those words before. When I first moved to Silicon Valley, I went to work at ROLM, where there had been a lot of concern that IBM would buy and kill that company. So much so that IBM […]

Mobility: How It’s Changing Our Lives Apple and IBM are hooking up and on the surface this looks like the perfect combination of firms. IBM is solidly focused on the back of the enterprise and it has eliminated its consumer-facing efforts. Apple is all about consumer electronics and its one enterprise effort, servers, was killed […]

Top 10 Traits of Successful IT Pros I’m fascinated by how many people seem to make really foolish decisions with regard to social media. You’d think these politicians and celebrities would know better because they are in the public eye, but they clearly don’t. Even high-level executives who have clearly carefully crafted a public image […]

The Differences Between Hardware Design and Software Development Yesterday, IBM announced its massive $3 billion investment effort to create a processor uniquely suited to the demands of the cloud and Big Data systems. This has both strategic and timing implications to the market. Efforts like this speak to the level of maturity in the market […]

Google’s thin client platform, ChromeOS, is positioned as the answer to Windows XP migration pain. The promise is an appliance-like experience and an extremely low cost, but the reality is causing individuals and companies to balk. There have been a number of design wins in schools, but given that schools have both some of the […]

Reduce Risk: Six Vulnerable Points Enterprises Need to Consider A little over a decade ago, folks were pushing Microsoft hard because its platforms and products weren’t as secure as they needed to be. Kids coming out of school, like the ones who founded Google, were the most strident. Now, Microsoft is showcasing security as a […]

Technology Strategy No Longer Just an IT Responsibility This week I’ve spent a lot of my time trying to explain the insane thing that Facebook did without using the word “stupid.” And last week, I was reviewing notes on some shifty stuff GM did that also made it difficult to not use that same word. […]

Five Tips for Overcoming Mobile Security Challenges At Google I/O, people spent a lot of time talking about secure containers like Samsung Knox to better secure Android phones. However, I’d just finished reading the latest McAfee Security Report and one of the trends it identified made it clear that the smart container approach likely won’t […]

Fifty Technology Start-Ups to Watch Two companies emerging in the business scene with really interesting visual technology are Personify and Matterport. Personify makes 3D videoconferencing technology that can create more compelling presentations and more deeply immerse audiences in content. Matterport makes a product that virtualizes physical places and will soon release an enhancement that allows […]

Five Tips for Overcoming Mobile Security Challenges BlackBerry, which remains the only business-focused smartphone supplier, released its financial results today, and they reflect strong improvement on most vectors. Recently, Nokia announced that its new dual-SIM phone for emerging markets had embraced BBM, and BlackBerry announced yesterday that it was adopting the Amazon App store, providing […]

It is fascinating to watch Microsoft (and other vendors) try to come up with a next-generation tablet. The most successful tablet was the iPad and the only tablet that really challenged it was the Samsung Galaxy tablet, which was about as close to a knockoff of the iPad as you are likely to get. Amazon […]

Six Key Steps to Build a Successful Digital Business Back in the 90s, I was asked to attend a very exclusive meeting at Bill Gates’ family vacation home, where I spent two days with Gates and Steve Ballmer pillaging Bill’s secret Dr. Pepper stash. At the end of the event, the PR folks asked me […]