Rob Enderle

I ended Intel’s Developer Forum as I started it: on a panel talking about people and technology. But this time we were answering questions from an audience concerned about what technology could do to us, rather than for us, and wondering what work was being done to assure that future technology would transition to become […]

One of the most compelling presentations I’ve seen from any vendor this past decade was this week’s presentation by Intel Futurist Brian David Johnson on Steam Punk. Intel co-funded a research project and related film surrounding this initiative to try to explore a more intimate technology future.   It has become apparent that we are becoming […]

Next week at Intel’s Developer Forum, the company will be again showcasing its Tomorrow Project, which is arguably the most innovative and advanced effort to craft a better future that currently exists. Unlike most future-focused projects, this isn’t based on the more typical efforts to shotgun out a massive number of potential products in the […]

Allegedly, 1M, of 12M stolen iPhone Unique Device IDs (UDIDs), have been released into the wild. These IDs, by themselves, are one factor in a multi-factor security process tied to other systems, but their release into the wild removes an entire level of security on iPhones. What is more troubling is that these IDs came […]

A couple of weeks ago, I moderated a discussion between Cisco and EMC on desktop virtualization (you can see the video of it here). This is one of the mega trends cutting through the industry at the moment because of the advent of BYOD (bring your own device) because it allows a business to provide […]

Samsung and Google copied Apple illegally, or so the civil court here in California ruled last week. But, assuming this ruling survives appeal, this is a big win for innovation and, unfortunately, innovation means change. In this case, however, the change could be a good one for IT because the most innovative platform challenging Apple’s […]

The quarter’s financials are out for HP and they showcase the expected pain of a turnaround and the problems facing a CEO managing one. Turnaround efforts, particularly for large complex companies, take about 5 to 7 years (assuming they are successful) and there are often hills and valleys during the process. The latest financial report […]

I started out this week with a trip to San Francisco and a briefing by Dell for its new line of zero clients and enhanced VDI (Virtual Desktop) solutions. Now zero clients are one step more advanced than thin clients in that there is no software that is locally resident. Thin clients have an OS […]

AT&T in its prime was a services company: You got the telephones for free and paid a monthly fee for services that covered the cost of the hardware. Because the hardware was a cost center, it didn’t change very often and was designed to last for decades. Outside of cable companies, this was a very […]

Based on some of my emails this morning there is a lot of speculation right now on who will buy NetApp (this seems to pop up every few years). Coincidentally, last week I was reviewing the Nicira acquisition by EMC subsidiary VMware. Regardless of who buys NetApp, were it sold, the company likely would be […]