Rob Enderle

For the last several years, Dell has been trying to find a way to go private with a Leveraged Buyout (LBO). There are a number of reasons for this, and we’ll cover a few of them but the larger issue is what it will do to the firm as a vendor.  It will change the […]

There was a lot of business in the Consumer Electronics Show this last week.  I mentioned the Panasonic announcement earlier, in which they showcased why current tablets from companies like Apple aren’t really designed for business.  But two others may be even more disruptive once they mature: a hosted PC platform that can scale to […]

Just before I left CES this week, I attended a tablet line launch by Panasonic.  It was the only vendor I saw at the show that appeared to be pulling back from a blind rush at the consumer and taking a business focus on the new tablet line it launched at CES. Its opening salvo […]

With the proliferation of cameras in businesses and on phones, the ability to keep things private has never been more difficult. I was reminded of this today as I watched a story on the “Today Show” about a teenager who was allegedly intentionally hit by woman who wanted to drive into the parking spot the […]

I’m currently in the midst of pre-briefings for CES and one thing is abundantly clear, if you thought BYOD was a pain in 2012, it will become a lot worse in 2013. It may be time to revisit or create that BYOD strategy for the coming year before the employees roll over you.    Android: The […]

Looking back to 2012, there were a number of initiatives that showcased brilliance in technology companies. Some were just simply brilliant, others warmed my heart, and all made me proud to work with the companies that launched and nurtured them.  Let’s go down a list of my 2013 favorites and talk about why I think […]

We are into the week when most folks are on vacation and I thought I’d use this time to revisit my three favorite IT products and/or services from the last year. These are the ones that stand out in my mind as well ahead of the pack and stand as examples of excellence, defining the […]

The date isn’t a typo. The fact is that HP is actually positioned to lead the industry in improvement next year. I’m writing this to point out that firms that are at the top when an industry change happens tend to lose their position and, because it is often inflated, it falls fastest, and those […]

Last week, Jim Cramer argued that Intel should have not purchased McAfee but instead purchased ARM Holdings. It isn’t hard to see his argument; the McAfee acquisition has yet to pay dividends, the old founder (who had left the industry decades ago) is doing controversial things in Belize (where I’m building a house) and Intel […]

I was talking with the identity management group that Dell acquired with Quest and getting a kick out of the fact that much of their success was coming from folks who had tried and failed to deploy another vendor’s security solution. I won’t share that company’s name, but it kind of sounded line “snorkel,” which […]

A Closer Look at Windows 8 Security I had a long chat with Michael Dell last week and one of the interesting things he said was that Dell was seeing a great deal of interest in Windows 8. This is kind of a surprise because conventional wisdom is that with a brand-new OS, enterprise buyers […]

I see a lot of presentations on technology initiatives but few really seem to get behind the “why” part of the new product or service. They are faster, better, and sometimes even cheaper, but each term is often arbitrary with very little connection to a problem that you or I might actually want to fix.   […]