Rob Enderle

Bitcoin’s Security Challenges McAfee has released a report that showcases a massive increase in security exposures in 2014. One of the more interesting is ransomware, and this risk also suggests bigger problems with digital currency. This is thanks to virtual currency, which McAfee argues will be at the core of these attacks. Ransomware is software […]

Top Five Reasons Big Data Is Advancing Personalized Medicine Every December, IBM makes a series of predictions tied to what it is seeing in the marketplace. This year, the firm has some interesting ones, from cities that become intelligent and, through technology, help citizens, to digital online guardians. As we move toward the end of […]

Seven Evolving Leadership Qualities for the Twenty-First Century Ahead of Dell World, I had a chance to talk to Michael Dell about a number of things. His competitors had been saying that he’d be buried under debt and I wanted to check on that. I also wanted to find out how the company had changed, […]

Eight Critical Forces Shaping Data Center Strategy In a previous post, I wrote about the importance of having a strong marketing unit, which can assure a firm’s success. The idea that triggered the post came when the IBM System X platform took on all takers at a very well-instrumented bid and won decisively in Europe […]

I’ll be looking first at why IBM is having a problem selling its X86 based servers even though, competitively, they appear to be the best solution. I’m starting with the problem portion of this first because it is common for an engineering company to underfund marketing and the result can often be a loss of […]

Seven Evolving Leadership Qualities for the Twenty-First Century Lots of companies are undergoing turnarounds right now. Clearly, it is a difficult time in a tech market in transition. HP, BlackBerry, BMC, AMD and Yahoo are all in different phases of a turnaround. The sharpest contrast is between AMD and Yahoo. AMD appears to be methodically […]

Six BYOD Questions Users Should Ask IT At the core of the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) movement should be the idea that the employee will have a better idea of what they need in order to do their job than IT does. Certainly, that was generally the case during the PC revolution, when line […]

In part one of this two-parter on corporate turnarounds, I covered defining the core problem preventing organizational success, the CEO’s real role, and the importance of a standout CFO. Now let’s go further and look at the diagnostic or evaluation team and the metrics needed to get the job done. What seems to generally happen […]

A number of companies are in the process of doing a turnaround and most are doing it poorly, largely because the process for doing one of these things isn’t taught. Over the years, I’ve been involved in either helping execute turnarounds or documenting them, and a set of best practices has emerged from which I […]

Five Common Excuses for Avoiding Windows Migrations As I was writing my earlier piece on how Windows 8.1 is being successfully used in business, I couldn’t help but wonder what the big deal was. I go to meeting after meeting where fellow analysts are outspoken about how Windows 8 sucks, largely because it is different. […]

Windows 8.1 Is Available Now Windows 8 hasn’t been going that well. When the product launched, the hardware wasn’t ready and neither was the product, really. User backlash to the massive user interface changes hadn’t been properly mitigated and demand generation started at the time of the launch but was inadequately funded. The product attempted […]

What Can Augmented Reality Do? I attended a number of sessions at AMD’s developer conference (APU13) this week and I’ve found that AMD is becoming a very different company. No longer satisfied with chasing Intel, it is moving to redefine the market with initiatives like Mantle and HSA that will provide the company a unique […]