Rob Enderle

Five Steps to Mitigate Risks After Windows XP Security Updates End I’m fascinated in a somewhat morbid way by the fall of Steve Ballmer. Before he was CEO, he was Microsoft’s fixer. He was the guy they called on when they had a problem and he generally made that problem go away. I’d met with […]

I attended IBM’s big coming out party for OpenPOWER and its new Power strategic effort and one of the more interesting concepts was that the company positioned this as the third generation of data center scale out. I actually think it is the fourth generation (I’ll cover that), but it is fascinating to see where […]

Tensions Between IT and Business Leadership Force New Approach to Delivering Technology It is interesting how I’m increasingly seeing the higher education market drive change with vendor offerings. For the second time this month, higher education—in this case the University of California at Berkley—is at the center of a new product offering from a major […]

Five Digitally Vulnerable Areas Your Business May be Overlooking This week I got a heads up briefing on McAfee’s latest router security release (part of Intel security), which more deeply integrates routers into its unique approach to comprehensive corporate security. The company indicated it was having surprising success given that a core portion of the […]

How the Internet of Things Will Change Our Lives I’m not a fan of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), but my issue isn’t the same as most conservatives who believe that it is an unearned entitlement for folks who don’t want to work. My issue is that it isn’t affordable. This is because health care […]

IT Spending Expected to Rise in 2014 Until recently, the tech market focus on processors surrounded two current processor technologies: ARM, which exists mostly for mobile devices but is trying to move up market to PCs and servers, and X86, which is mostly on PCs and servers and trying to move down market to mobile […]

Technology Strategy No Longer Just an IT Responsibility This week I’m at AMD’s analyst conference and the difference at the company from last year is like night and day. Last year, it was bleeding cash, its outlook was uncertain, and it was massively eclipsed by Intel, which had spent years out-executing and out-spending the firm. […]

Five Digitally Vulnerable Areas Your Business May be Overlooking Last week, I was briefed on the partnership that was announced between Siemens and McAfee (a division of Intel Security). I had to admit there were a couple of moments where I seriously thought about building a bunker, because I was confronted with information about the […]

How the Internet of Things Will Transform the Data Center I’m attending the first VCE analyst conference and it has been a very enlightening experience so far. The most interesting session has been one where customers were placed on a panel while the room full of analysts from all the top firms pounded them with […]

Eleven Key Challenges for CEOs in 2014 An interesting story in USA Today mentions Microsoft’s new CEO focusing on what makes Microsoft unique. As the opening strategic move, this isn’t a bad one. Had the firm maintained this kind of focus during the last decade, things likely would have turned out better for Steve Ballmer. […]

The Hadoop Challenge for Business Intelligence and Analytics Users A few days in every technology analyst’s life produce a holy crap moment. One of those days was today when Intel decided to play kingmaker and pushed Big Data analytics startup Cloudera into the forefront of its segment, at least in terms of mindshare. I’ve known […]

Top 10 IT Performance Management Predictions for 2014 One of the things that generally has me scratching my head is how technology company CEOs will get up and do a keynote without any effort to showcase their technology. Even though they have the capability to create an epic event, or to fill their keynote with […]