Rob Enderle

The disclosure by Edward Snowden of broad NSA access to domestic and foreign digital communications is having an adverse effect on the U.S. technology market. Brands like Cisco and Juniper have been used in the disclosures, resulting in bans against some of the related hardware even though no evidence exists that such a ban would […]

What BlackBerry 10 Means for the Enterprise Following BMC, which blazed the trail most recently, BlackBerry is also looking at going private. So now would be good time to talk about the good and the bad in regard to this decision and the likely impact on customers and employees. The move isn’t a panacea and […]

Speculation abounds, given the recent news that the BlackBerry board was exploring all options, as to who would buy the company. Theories range from Lenovo, which would use the company to launch its phones outside of China in a move similar to what it did with the IBM PC Company, to Microsoft, which eventually will […]

As we watch BlackBerry struggle with its turnaround, perhaps it would be good to look back at Apple’s turnaround and gain some perspective. These things are hard, and particularly difficult when a firm has to focus on quarterly numbers. The first three years of a turnaround are the most difficult because the CEO has to […]

Contact Centers: Why Customer Engagement Initiatives Fail IT is under siege by services like Amazon Web Services (AWS), which largely seek to make IT a redundant service. Given that these moves should make most large hardware OEMs effectively obsolete as well, you’d think there would be a huge grass roots effort to provide tools to […]

Fabric-Based Infrastructure Best Practices Could Deliver Six-Figure Savings Quietly, HP announced something called its Lifetime Warranty 2.0 for the enterprise networking space in a clear attempt to make lowered operating costs a competitive battlefield. With products, often the maintenance costs are the sustaining revenue for a vendor that may not make that much money from […]

IT’s Dirty Little Secret: Security Reporting  A number of stories have suggested that western governments were blocking Lenovo computers from secure organizations for fear of rootkits or Chinese government spying even though no evidence of China actually doing this to PCs has ever been reported. In fact, it would be incredibly shortsighted if they did […]

It is always interesting to watch a founder, largely because they will approach a corporate problem much more strategically than a hired CEO. The latter is generally focused like a laser on quarterly numbers and maximizing their compensation, where a founder is more likely to think of the company as their legacy and thus is […]

Tablets by the Numbers As analysts, we have a nasty habit of looking to past failures and assuming they are indicative of future events. However, we are often proved wrong by one company that manages to do it right. Consumer smartphones were all stupid until the iPhone. Tablets were a joke until the iPad, which […]

Markets move on rumors and the rumor that IBM is looking to sell its System x series group to Lenovo has undoubtedly done some damage. Bill Moran and Rich Ptak posted about the IBM rumor and made some excellent points, including the reassurance that IBM’s PC sale didn’t put buyers at risk and actually proved […]

I’ve been playing with two very different tablets this week: the small 8” Acer W5 Iconia and the Dell XPS 18”, which is more of a portable all-in-one than it is a tablet. Clearly, you’d use these two products very differently, but under Windows 8.1, the user interface, apps and files would be identical on […]

Today’s CIO: More Collaboration and Influence, But Less Control Last decade, we really saw the difference between how a pyramid executive hierarchy could perform against a company made up of silos, or pillars. This was the battle between Microsoft and Apple. What is interesting is that if you go back a decade to when Microsoft […]