Rob Enderle

Five Questions to Ask Before Choosing a Cloud Platform Solution I’ve been thinking about the fight between Amazon Web Services and IBM for the CIA and other U.S. government business and it strikes me that something is really screwy. I’m not talking about the bid process, which both IBM and the General Accounting Office (GA0) […]

Lenovo is working to penetrate the server market like it did with PCs. With PCs, it bought the failing IBM PC Company and effectively turned it around to do what IBM never did: Make it the market share leader. Lenovo is taking a different but no less compelling path to servers and it realizes that […]

The Six Deadly Sins of Project Management Leadership Tesla, which is well on its way to becoming the Apple of the automotive market, decided not up upgrade its SAP implementation and instead develop its own software. It has worked out well so far. This approach can bring clear tactical advantages if you can pull it […]

This week, I was in Boston at EMC’s Annual Analyst event. It included a number of interesting disclosures that I can’t talk about, but the ones I can talk about were equally fascinating. For instance, EMC has an offering called “Project Nile,” which actually creates a private-public cloud, providing the security and compliance that is […]

This hasn’t been a good tech month for the Obama administration, which you’d think would be incredibly good with technology.  During the election, its use of data analytics was nothing short of brilliant, and it kicked the Republican Party’s butt with far better mining of contribution resources and in terms of getting the vote out. […]

Top Predictions for IT Organizations and Users for 2014 and Beyond At the IBM Enterprise 2013 conference, one of the more interesting discussions came at a round table at the end of day one. The question had to do with the number of different platforms IBM has. They appear to overlap, including the major branded […]

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2014 I’m at IBM Enterprise 2013, which is being held in Orlando this year. Unfortunately, being a California boy, my brain will likely not fully wake up for another two or three hours. The central themes for the event appear to be big data and how it is driving […]

I’m at Demo Fall 2013 this week, and it is a fascinating event. There are few places where you can get more information about new products, how to build tech startups, and how both to do and not to do demonstrations. I can see all that at Demo and I look forward to this show […]

I attended the Intel Alumni Network event celebrating 45 years of Intel. It was a fascinating chance to look back at the foundation of the Silicon Valley, and some of the huge successes and mistakes made by this technology giant, and imagine what it told about the future of technology in the U.S. and the […]

In “Fixing HP: Highlights of HP’s Financial Analyst Meeting,” I wrote about how CEO Meg Whitman’s opening talk set the tone for a very impressive event and how that was strikingly different from what I saw last year. I’ll finish up today with my thoughts on one of the best new presenters, what the CFO […]

Boy, what a difference a year makes. The last time I watched HP present the state of the company a year ago, it was anything but a best practice. The individuals, in some cases, showcased well, but the company looked like a mess. This year, things are very different. Meg Whitman’s CEO talk was one […]

Earlier this week, AMD and Verizon announced a major IT initiative. At the core of it was a huge win by AMD’s SeaMicro unit, showcasing that the AMD turnaround has taken a distinct turn away from Intel. I spent some time getting briefed about this last week and this week, and while I see some […]