Rob Enderle

Six Reasons Windows 8 Could Be a Threat to the iPad I’m at the Windows 8 launch today and once again people are suggesting that this may be the last launch of an OS from Microsoft, though, frankly, I don’t see this ending anytime soon. The event itself was interesting; it had more energy than […]

I’m at McAfee Focus this week and at the core of the keynote address is the very real idea that the world is a very scary place. According to the address, the World Economic Forum has concluded that cyber attacks represent the greatest economic threat in the world today. What has changed is that it […]

Earlier this week, I talked about what was likely going to happen to government IT after the elections in 2013: Basically your budgets are about to be slashed even further. Now, I’d like to talk a bit more about what to do to manage this problem. Some of the most frightening things you are currently […]

We are ramping up to an election now just a few weeks away and while both presidential candidates will likely cut budgets for IT sharply, they are likely to go about it in very different ways. Obama, who seemed to start out being the first president who understood IT, has turned out to be not […]

It is always fun to look at a bit of conflict and in this case I’m not talking about Lenovo vs. HP; I’m talking about IDC vs. Gartner. You see, IDC includes workstations in its PC numbers, and HP has a massive and leading workstation business. Gartner does not include them. The workstation business is […]

We tend to get very excited about births and deaths, not just human or pet, but in the technology market. We are currently talking about the death of the PC and the “post-PC era,” but a few decades ago, we were talking about the death of the mainframe and that Client Server (read: Sun) would […]

I was tightly tied to the turnaround of IBM as I wrote the post mortems on some of IBM’s largest failed acquisitions and wrote the paper on why IBM nearly failed in the first place from inside IBM. The key player in the initial phases wasn’t Louis Gerstner, but Jerry York, the experienced CFO who […]

Windows 8 Features Businesses Will Love The part of Windows 8 that could be a godsend for IT and is getting very little play anywhere is Windows To Go. This is the enterprise option for Windows 8, which places the entire employee image on a USB key that can then be run from any compliant […]

I had an update from the VCE organization this week and even though I’ve been covering VCE and Vblocks since their inception, there was one thing I clearly didn’t understand and that was: This solution is an appliance. This is why it can go from bid acceptance to production in as little as 40 days; […]

I was told a scary story the other day. It seems that a top executive was told that he would have to send a large sum of money to an outfit in order to protect his company’s reputation. You see, his firm didn’t send the check, and this group promised to libel the company indiscriminately […]

Earlier this week, I spoke about my belief that Ballmer’s behavior and Microsoft’s performance was likely tied to his envy and anger at being overshadowed by CEOs like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Interestingly, Forbes had another post that same day that nicely dovetailed with what I’d written. I’d argued that this is why he […]

We are all competitive by nature and often compare ourselves to our friends as a benchmark for how successful we are. Now, some of us are more competitive than others and Steve Ballmer, who graduated magna cum laude from Harvard, is at the extreme edge of this. Think how nuts it likely makes him when […]