Rob Enderle

Ten Approaches to Protecting Mobile Data As we ended last week, Android fans seemed to take the notification that an obscure U.S. government department was looking at Android phones to mean that the President was going to switch to Android. This seemed unlikely, however. The level of testing that the BlackBerry had gone though and […]

Apple and the Book What is fascinating is that the attacks on the book initially just said it was bad. Now they have moved to attacking the author, and saying specific recollections didn’t happen (Jobs throwing a pen), but not yet disagreeing with major events. People are going to remember things differently and mix up […]

The State of Enterprise Crowdsourcing I was on Amazon earlier this week and noticed that some people appear to be working overtime in an effort to keep people from reading the new book “Haunted Empire: Apple After Steve Jobs,” which is about Apple post-Steve Jobs. When the book first came out, I was surprised to […]

Top Predictions for Enterprise IT in 2014 In a recent Gartner report on why vendors need to market their products, what fascinated me was that Gartner gave a pretty high score for the importance of white papers as marketing tools when Dataquest, the firm it acquired years ago, showcased in an earlier study that nobody […]

Seven Ways “As a Service” Can Benefit You Ginni Rometty is in the process of changing the direction of IBM, and you can see that progress in the latest IBM Annual Report—particularly in the Letter from the Chairman. Unlike most companies, IBM was designed to change, but that doesn’t mean the process isn’t painful. It […]

Eleven Key Challenges for CEOs in 2014 A lot has changed in the last year for HP. CEOs are mostly graded on stock performance and HP is trading at a high this year, around three times where it was trading when Meg Whitman took over. I’m at HP’s analyst event this year and there is […]

Ten Top Tech Trends to Watch in 2014 One of the first things you look for in a turnaround effort, particularly when an internal candidate is chosen, is how quickly he or she builds their own executive team. This should be, but often isn’t, an advantage for an internal candidate, who should know who is […]

Top Predictions for Enterprise IT in 2014 I’ve often found it fascinating that women who run companies seem to avoid promoting other women to top spots. HP is clearly breaking that trend by quietly promoting Bethany Mayer to what may be the most powerful and influential spot in HP, short of CEO Meg Whitman’s. Mayer […]

Ten Top Tech Trends to Watch in 2014 Last week I had a chance to chat with Adalio Sanchez, who runs what was the IBM X86 server group and is moving with that group to Lenovo as a result of Lenovo acquiring IBM’s X86 server group.  I’ve always enjoyed chatting with Sanchez. He is a […]

Five Important Lessons from Recent Data Breaches The Target breach was a wake-up call for the entire business world, showcasing that good enough security really isn’t good enough. That attack came in through a trust relationship with an outside vendor and did massive damage to Target’s brand and revenue. It also showcased that traditional security […]

The Top Ten IT Skills for 2014 One of the interesting things I observed over the last decade was how much better Apple support seemed to be from the standpoint of the user, compared to the kind of support most Windows users got. This had little to do with Microsoft or Apple and everything to […]

Eleven Key Challenges for CEOs in 2014 I’m going through some of the financial results this week and what really struck me is how well VCE is doing. In the latest EMC financial results, VCE appears to be a real star, moving beyond the trial stages and overcoming what was a perception that customers couldn’t […]