Rob Enderle

This last week, Howard Boville of IBM provided an overview of where the IBM Cloud is and why it doesn’t compete directly with major cloud players like AWS, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure. This talk showed how a smaller cloud vendor like IBM could carve out space in what appears to be a crowded market […]

This week IBM released their hardware roadmap for Quantum Computing. As with any roadmap, these are goals, not dates locked in concrete, and unforeseen circumstances can push out dates, and unforeseen breakthroughs can move them in. The farther the dates are out into the future, the more unreliable they likely are. However, IBM executives are […]

If you are watching the news here in the US, we again have the side in power proposing fixes to problems and the side out of power blocking those fixes. The show and tell aspects of their presentations go back to the 1980s, when we were still doing flip charts or having graphic arts departs […]

This month Qualcomm had a fascinating presentation on the advancements they have made with applied AI and video. These advancements are incredibly attractive to users who want to lower their data charges but still take and share great videos from their smartphones. I spent some time in law enforcement, and videos, like those captured during the […]

There were many good keynotes this year at CES, but the two best were from GM and Microsoft. Brad Smith from Microsoft did a better job of looping in current events and talking about making the world better, which, to me (and I used to teach classes on this), exemplifies the best Keynotes. Bill Gates […]

We are clearly in the middle of a significant change concerning where and even how we work. Since the breakout of the pandemic, most companies shifted from “work from home as an exception” to “work from home, as a rule.” As a result, the lines between business and consumer productivity products have significantly blurred. You’ll […]

The pandemic has caused many trends to accelerate significantly during 2020 and some will remain with us for most of 2021. Of the things that the pandemic is accelerating, many of them have a lot to do with Artificial Intelligence. As we approach the end of the year, I thought it would be interesting to look […]

This week IBM provided an update on IBM Research and where they are focusing their resources. IBM Research is one of the most extensive collections of focused scientists in the world’s public sector. With 3,000 scientists, the organization has been in existence for 75 years and won 6 Nobel Laureates, 10 Medals of Technology, 5 […]

Huawei has been running a series of roundtables talking about the enormous problems that need to be addressed to make the world a better and safer place. This week the topic was on “Unleashing Innovation Through Collaboration,” and the framework was the COVID-19 response. On the panel were Susan Athey, a professor and Stanford graduate […]

This week Huawei held an expert roundtable on the state of artificial intelligence, and it was a fascinating event. Speakers on the panel included Mark Beccue, Principal Analyst at Omedia; Barry O’Sullivan of University College; and Neil Sahota, IBM Master inventor and UN AI subject matter expert, out of UC Irvine in California. This event was […]