Rob Enderle

Five Things That the Private Cloud Is Not I recall being involved in a discussion by then-executive Steve Ballmer and another executive who left the company shortly thereafter on services. The other executive argued that Microsoft needed to go into the services market and Ballmer said absolutely not because the firm didn’t want to piss […]

My company is probably one of the longest users of Postini, a service Google acquired a few years back that was designed to combat malware on Exchange and other business mail systems. Postini could be sold as a standalone product or provided as a service provider offering. The company decided to discontinue support for service […]

Let’s be clear: HP needed to step out from the pack and stand up as a leader. At its size and scale, it was being buried under attacks from virtually every other technology vendor in its space because it appeared to be the most vulnerable. HP’s only choice was to step up and attempt to […]

Tips to Counter Emerging Privacy Risks Earlier this week, I wrote about the benefits of Google Glass and promised I would write about the dangers. There are enough of them that, even with the benefits in mind, it may be advisable to ban all products in this class from your work site and home except […]

Tech Gadgets We Love I’m going to cover Google Glass in two parts. For the first part, I’ll look at what this technology could be used for to change the world for the better. In the second part, I’ll highlight the very real risks associated with the offering.   Google Glass is a heads-up, camera-connected display […]

Fifteen BlackBerry Apps to Increase Productivity and Security BlackBerry is a company that has a unique primary focus on business buyers; a class of buyer most cell phone companies either don’t focus on anymore or, as Samsung is demonstrating, are struggling to engage. This focus during the recession was a problem because as business fortunes […]

When I read that Blackstone was asking ex-HP CEO Mark Hurd to be its CEO champion in its attempt to wrest control of Dell from its founder, I nearly had a heart attack. I’ve been following the Meg Whitman turnaround effort at HP closely and the amount of damage Hurd did to that company is […]

This week was NVIDIA’s Emerging Companies Summit and as I’ve done for a number of years now, I’ve participated in the review panel. This year there were some amazing solutions for product placement in video, on-line customized product retail, and a solution called Mainframe2 that is designed to put your engineering workstations in the cloud.    […]

I’m at the NVIDIA GDC (GPU Developer’s Conference) this week and they are really feeling their oats, announcing major advancements in real-time rendering, ranging from water to virtual people, and from the desktop to smartphones. One of the most interesting announcements was on the Grid Enterprise platform; it is called VCA or Visual Computing Appliance, […]

Enterprise Investment in Mobile Initiatives Is on the Rise This isn’t overall sales, this is tracking one deal that hit One Million Units and you don’t see deals at this level even for Apple, largely because BlackBerry is better set up for business both in platform and sales approach. Of all the vendors, it is […]

HP, at its annual analyst event last week, presented what could be a one-two punch that could have the company flipping the current networking, storage and server market on its ear and leaving it in the position IBM once was with the mainframe. With a lead so pronounced, it is virtually untouchable. IBM has a […]

Tablets by the Numbers I’m at the HP Industry Analyst Event this week and one of the interesting cases it presented was that of Emirates Airlines’ experience with Windows 8 and HP’s ElitePad. Microsoft had intended to position Windows 8 as the iPad fighter and there was a lot of doubt whether it could perform […]