Rob Enderle

Windows 8.1 Update: Refining the Windows Experience Sometimes things about this industry have me scratching my head. For instance, in storage we focus on the term “back-up” like it was the end all, when it should be “recovery” that we are focused on. In the PC market, similar issues have frustrated me for years. Perhaps […]

2014 Big Data Outlook: Opportunities and Challenges The question in the title was one of the more interesting ones that came to the panel I moderated in the Women In Technology Summit. On my panel, I had some extraordinary women: Yael Garten, the manager of data science for mobile products at LinkedIn; Anjul Bhambhri, vice […]

2014 Big Data Outlook: Opportunities and Challenges It appears that, thanks to their dominance in marketing, women are becoming the go-to resource when it comes to selling and implementing Big Data analytics. This idea was reinforced last week, while I was chatting with Dell’s CMO, Karen Quintos, and when I moderated the session at Women […]

Transforming IT from a Department of ‘No’ to a Business Enabler I’m at the Dell Annual Analyst Conference this week and Dell has a problem. You see, one of the consequences of going private is that Dell doesn’t have quarterly reporting anymore. That means we don’t get regular updates on how it is performing in […]

Eleven Key Challenges for CEOs in 2014 I was at IBM Edge last week and it appeared that one of the big problems companies are dealing with is that suddenly, competition is heating up on how to best understand and respond to customers individually, even though there may be millions of them. The example given […]

Surface was always an interesting product, but in this case, interesting wasn’t necessarily a good thing. Surface I gave folks an ugly choice of an expensive tablet-like laptop that was heavy, expensive and had poor battery life, but ran Windows 7 apps, and an attractively priced tablet that was light, had good battery life and […]

IT Strives to Reinvent Itself Despite Budget Restrictions I’m at IBM Edge this week and listening to my old friend Adalio Sanchez talk about the coming integration of IBM’s System X division into Lenovo as the key foundation for a much more intimate relationship between the two companies. This comes at an interesting time, when […]

Top Predictions for Enterprise IT in 2014 We often focus far more on the vendors and people who don’t do what we expect than we focus on those folks who actually seem to care about the outcome of our problems and the success of our purchases. Some firms are founded on the idea of service […]

Seven Tablets with a Business Edge We seem to learn lessons very slowly. This came to mind as I started using the new business-focused Dell Latitude E7240. Some believe that laptops are dead and 2-in-1 laptop/tablet hybrids are the future, but the reality is they aren’t selling that well. This is the second time we’ve […]

Executive Insights for Building Trust in the Cloud If we think about computing in waves, we are on the third major wave of computing. We call it the cloud and if it is the last wave, the firms that are dominant now likely won’t be dominant by the time this wave completes. The way I […]

How the Internet of Things Will Transform the Data Center This week I’m at EMC World and given that they are opening the analyst/press portion of the show with a video of the Lotus F1 team, their core message perhaps should be, “Racing to the Future.” The F1 race is arguably the most technology-rich sport […]

Transforming IT from a Department of ‘No’ to a Business Enabler I’m a big James Bond fan and recall with great fondness the first Bond film, Dr. No. I think it is one of my favorites because Bond drives a Sunbeam Alpine, which I also once owned. I’ve been thinking about the movie in relation […]